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Bios of Aristotle Readers
Folks, Here’s a quick list of the 15 veteran readers of reading group 1 – who join me in welcoming everyone – including our newest members (and folks transferring in from reading group 2) – to our year-long odyssey of reading Aristotle. – Tim Albr… Continue reading
Happy birthday to Hedy!
Folks,Please join me in wishing happy birthday to our longtime reader, colleague and friend, Hedy Williamson.Happy birthday, Hedy!PhilPhil TerryCEO, Creative GoodFounder, The Councilswww.creativegood.comwww.goodexperience.com Continue reading
Erik Hagerman (A2009)
Depending on when and whom you ask, Erik Hagerman is either a creative executive with an art problem, or an artist with a creative executive problem. As a creative executive, he’s designed online user experiences and led creative teams for compani… Continue reading
Thucydides Book 3 Study Questions
Hi folks,Here are our next set of discussion questions for Book 3. I hope that the minimal notes will also help us keep the larger perspective of Thucydides’ direction in mind. I will get a more detailed outline of Book 3 to you next week.Reading … Continue reading
Aristotle – The First Call
Here’s the conference call information for the first Aristotle discussion:Tuesday, January 138pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific1-888-350-0075code: 5718476#Agenda:- De partibus Animalum (643 – 664)- De Genratione Animalium (665 – 688) Continue reading
How is the reading going for Aristotle? Quick reply?
Hey folks,How’s Aristotle going?I must say I love the discussion at the beginning of “On the parts of Animals” (pages 643 – 645) about what is education, the scientific method and so on.His answers are not always welcome (for example, the stuff th… Continue reading
Thucydides January 2009 Book 2 – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for the Thucydides book 2 call. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod.Download Thucydides-January2009-Book2 Continue reading
Pericles Speech
I had a really great time on the call today folks. I’m really enjoying everyone’s perspectives and insights.I mentioned that I broke Pericles’ speech into its basic elements and I know somebody else mentioned they did the same thing so I thought I… Continue reading
Some random thoughts.
It is sometimes interesting to go outside after these calls and look to the sky (“The same sky they saw.” as Andre pointed out to us a while back) and try to imagine what Pericles actually did think about before he gave that 2nd speech in Book II…. Continue reading
Strategy? Victory?
Thucydidites,From the very beginning of this conflict I listed the strengths of each Sparta and Athens. I was trying to figure out what overarching strategy could be deployed to each side’s advantage, and I was wondering how each side would try to… Continue reading →
13. January 2009 by Arrian
Categories: Commentary, Thucydides | Tags: Commentary, Thucydides | 1 comment