Author Archives: thomas

one proper way to start a career, or, I wasn’t too stupid at 23

By thomas | Published: November 4, 2009
As an aside to the study of What is Philosophy?, and perhaps more as an historical note to myself, I would like to share some writing of mine from a larger email between me and a close friend, Emily August, in the June of 2006: i say that i’m confused and don’t know what the hell [...]
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investigation requires of us persistence

By thomas | Published: November 1, 2009
I am currently looking further into the question of who Socrates was, why he did not write anything, and why this may be significant. I would now say that my previous dialouge between Socrates and Plato, while playful, is probably in-accurate. When I have completed my research I will place my findings here. [...]
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the socratic problem

By thomas | Published: October 29, 2009
In my investigations into the question What is Philosophy? I’ve come into a bit of a snag: Socrates. I wanted to know what it was that he thought philosophy was, because, you know, he pretty much is the go-to guy in terms of ancient western philosophy. It could, of course, be argued that [...]
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in defense of a new blog, or, hello world!

By thomas | Published: October 28, 2009
It is estimated as of February 2008 that there are over 112 million blogs on the internet (and I will admit to creating at least 8 or 9 of them). With this consideration in mind, we might wonder this: when you have created 8 or 9 blogs and only one of them has received [...]
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