Plato and the philosopher’s phone: the essay.
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Chapter Sixteen: The End and the Beginning.
These books are the X-Files.
Chapter Fifteen: Aristotle the kitten and slavery.
A very simple exposition of Aristotle on happiness is Jean Vanier, A Guide to the Good Life: Happiness, Aristotle for the New Century (2001).
What shall we do with all our leisure? Keep busy!
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Utopia 1
Utopia understands the present through the future.
Utopia in theory and practice. It’s all in the black.
Jackson in a hat!
The sky did fall. It is a risk revealing this hat. It is probably an offence to be in possession of a fire warden’s hat when not a fire warden!
A theorist and nothing but.
Chapter Fourteen: Aristotle today.
And you thought you knew Aristotle!
Aristotle applied readily today.
Chapter Thirteen: Big Aristotle.
The resemblance that lucky guy Plummer bears to me is uncanny isn’t it?
Let’s start with Big Aristotle.
La vie en rosé – Chapter Seven
The final proof that rosé has come back is that it now figures both in the mid market recommendations of magazines and newspapers and in the down market advertisements from the bulk dealers like Dan Murphy in Australia.
The Stelvin top is here to stay, and hooray, I say, to that!
La vie en rosé – Chapter Six
“Think cork,” I said. Did you? If not, why not?
The Wikipedia needs help on rosé, and I am just the guy who can do it!
La vie en rosé – Chapter Five
I have paid as little as two Euros for a NoName wine at a gas station in France, and as much as $AUD 50 for a Bandol Tempier in Melbourne.
I found more rosés than I had time to drink at Dean and De Lucca’s in Georgetown. I vowed to return as soon as possible, Reader, to pursue knowledge for you.
La vie en rosé – Chapter Four
Emboldened, I went back to try another, not knowing when to quit, when do we learn that? Not soon enough in this case.
Dedicated as I am, I have also dared to try some “wines” that remind me that there are limits to my search for knowledge on your behalf, Reader.