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The Courage to Attune: The Promise of the Poetic for Naming the Experience of God in the Context of the Self-Other Relation
… in Simone Weil's letters, essays, and notebooks (chapter three) and contemplation in Book X of Augustine's Confessions (chapter four). Throughout, close attention is paid to the interweaving of form and content in poetic speech, giving rise to a multi-dimensional and participative …
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Chorus and Cacophony: Philosophy as Khoreia in the Works of Plato
… in bad mousikē, rhythms, and harmonies, and in book X, Er describes the Spindle of Necessity, where Sirens sing in chorus, each sitting on one of the eight circles. The eponymous sophists of the Protagoras and Euthydemus are chorus leaders, who lead their enchanted and entertained pupils in …
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Understanding Ancient Math Through Kepler: A Few Geometric Ideas from The Harmony of the World
… Less popular are the contents of the tenth book, in which geometry is a means to study quantity in general. Commensurability and rational quantities are first principles, and from them are derived at least eight species of irrationals. A recently republished work by Johannes Kepler contains …