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7.3.10

De virtute græca et timore nostro ante veritatem

Do Sr. Fjordman, um artigo sobre a origem do papel, a circulação do conhecimento através das civilizações do mundo antigo, e a postura epistemiológica islâmica: Socratic dialogue vs. Islamic dialogue. Destaco a parte final, relativa ao "millagre grego": «"Criticism of your own teacher – rare, if not quite unknown in China – was common in Greece, sometimes as a prelude to the pupil setting up a rival school of his own. The case of Aristotle is just the most famous of many that can be cited. To be sure, the role of text-books in Greece eventually came to be considerable, even though none, not even Euclid's Elements, achieved quite the cachet of a Chinese major canon, at least not in Greco-Roman antiquity. Of course, on the Chinese side, not all instruction was mediated through such texts. In the Lunyu[Analects], Confucius, for instance, is described in dialogue with his pupils in an open situation that might seem reminiscent of the fictional conversations of Socrates in Plato. Yet two differences remain: first Confucius' authority is never challenged by his pupils in the way Socrates is contradicted by some of his interlocutors (however much Plato stacks the cards in Socrates' favour in their eventual refutation). Secondly, Confucius' pupils were not his sole, nor maybe even prime, preoccupation, which was rather, we said, to find a ruler worthy to advise."

18.2.09

A posição conservadora sobre o aborto

A posição conservadora sobre o aborto exposta com muita precisão, sem papas na língua, desde os aspectos mais ligeiros (se os há) até aos mais dramáticos e, muito importante, sem pedir desculpas por ser conservador. Ademais, com piada, expondo o ridículo e a hipocrisia da posição dita progressista. Zo rules!