Category: Analects

Analects of the Core: Hobbes on the Good

July 31, 2012 at 9:51 am

From Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan: Aristotle and other heathen philosophers define good and evil by the appetite of men; and well enough, as long as we consider them governed every one by his own law. For int eh condition of me that have no other law but their own appetites, there can be no general rule […]

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Analects of the Core: Goethe on Faust’s studies

March 6, 2012 at 12:35 pm

Well, that’s Philosophy I’ve read, / And Law and Medicine, and I fear / Theology, too, from A to Z; / Hard studies all, that have cost me dear. / And so I sit, poor silly man / No wiser now than when I began. [Habe nun, ach! Philosophie, / Juristerey und Medicin, / Und […]

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Analects of the Core: Fry on Homer’s genius

November 8, 2011 at 3:55 pm

Stephen Fry’s BBC mini-series “Fry’s Planet Word” discusses The Odyssey: “Homer’s genius was to create vivid, archetypal scenes that transcended time and place. The Sirens episode is only a few paragraphs long, yet has become embedded in our collective memory.” Check out the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W4i6sWCbk0&t=8m22s

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Analects of the Core: Thoreau on walls built of ruins

October 28, 2011 at 9:34 am

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins. – Henry David Thoreau

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Analects of the Core: Emerson on the Parthenon as a gem

October 27, 2011 at 9:59 am

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon as the best gem among her zone. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Analects of the Core: Pericles on mighty monuments

October 26, 2011 at 12:33 pm

Mighty indeed are the marks and monuments we have left. Men of the future will wonder at us, as all men do today. – Pericles

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Analects of the Core: Emerson on manners and early Greek art

October 25, 2011 at 11:18 am

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Analects of the Core: Mercouri on the Parthenon Marbles

October 24, 2011 at 10:08 am

In view of Prof. Fred Kleiner’s lecture this Tuesday on the art and politics of the Greek Acropolis, this week’s analects all concern the Athenian Parthenon. You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute […]

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Analects of the Core: Hume on science and learning

October 12, 2011 at 10:14 am

The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind. – David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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Analects of the Core: Locke on laws without authority

October 7, 2011 at 11:23 am

When any one, or more, shall take upon them to make laws, whom the people have not appointed to do so, they make laws without authority, which the people are not therefore bound to obey… [and] may constitute to themselves a new legislative, being in full liberty to resist the force of those, who without […]

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