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Caesar III (Impressions Software, 1998)

Posted on August 23, 2015 by ashok

“Have to make the people go where they must,” I keep telling myself.  Playing Caesar 3, which some call “SimRome.” Efficient city-b...

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Notes on a Lecture of Susan D. Collins – “E Pluribus Unum: Citizens, Friends, and Free Thinkers in the Ancient City”

Posted on April 25, 2013 by ashok / 0 Comment

These are my notes; feedback appreciated, I did what I could to be clear. You can watch the original lecture here. Susan Collins teaches at the University of Ho...

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Notes on a talk of Ronna Burger concerning Aristotle’s Ethics

Posted on November 6, 2012 by ashok / 0 Comment

Privileged to witness Ronna Burger lecture on her book Aristotle’s Dialogue with Socrates: On the Nicomachean Ethics. Below are my notes, rewritten into a...

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Aristotle’s Criticism of Thales: Metaphysics 983b17 – 984a5

Posted on October 22, 2011 by ashok / 6 Comments

Of Thales we know virtually nothing. However, Aristotle’s comment on his thought in-and-of itself is worthwhile: For there must be some nature, either one...

aristotle/philosophy/politics

Ancients and Moderns: On Aristotle’s Politics I.1 (1252a 1-25)

Posted on September 28, 2011 by ashok / 1 Comment

The Aristotle quoted below is from the Carnes Lord translation of the Politics (University of Chicago Press, 1985). 1. Aristotle opens and immediately challenge...

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