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I don't think I can think of a period of history more sneered at and looked down upon in modern times than the Medieval one. Even the name we give that period--affixed during the so-called enlightenment, I've been told--is a bit of a slighting: the "Middle Ages" are so-called because we want to see them as a middle period between the greatness of Greece and Rome and the greatness of the Modern age (beginning with the Renaissance at the earliest). Often the period is portrayed as one in which... Read More
Note: This was originally posted on my Equus nom Veritas site. I am reposting it here, along with the poem which preceded it and a sequel post. I hope you enjoy these. In my last post, I wrote a short... Read More
Note: this was originally published on my Equus nom Veritas site. It can be viewed here with original format and links. I can think of no more widely-misinterpreted (and deliberately abused) passage from... Read More
Plato, The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro wrote:
Socrates: Now, does holiness, which is to be a kind of ministering, benefit the gods? Does it improve them? Would you agree that when you do something holy you are making the gods bette... Read More
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