Auntie gah knee
Hello Arts One Friends, It’s time for another Seamus Fera blog. WOOT WOOT HOLLA #iamubc So tonight at 8:23 pm I will be discussing the beautiful Sophoclean play Antigone. Hopefully I will be be able to make this funny, but … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Plato and Genesis
I forgot we would be given our essay topics on Genesis/Kant/Plato so as I read Gorgias, I was thinking of possible topics. An interesting thing I thought about—and since we do have essay topics now, so I’m thinking of bringing … Continue reading → Continue reading →
I believe you but you don’t know what you’re saying? — Gorgias by Plato
I am confused by a very simple point in Plato’s Gorgias. If Gorgias claims that what oratory is is simply being able to persuade a person or crowd without knowledge that he is knowledgable in something he actually isn’t, then what does … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Hi
Hi Arts one! I’m Olivia, 18 and I’m from Ladner, BC a tiny town that nobody knows about made up of farms and elderly people. I went to Gabrielle-Roy in Surrey for my first year of high school and spent … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Defining Gorgias
This blog post is mainly for my thoughts on Gorgias, but we”ll get to that later. Firstly, I can’t lie and tell you that I haven’t taken a peek at some other blog posts already, but I’ve noticed that quite … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Socrates vs. Plato: Style vs. Substance in Plato’s Gorgias
my relationship with Gorgias is still in in the works, however, in a very short amount of time it has already undergone several transitions. I compare my relationship to Gorgias to someone who has undergone a serious trauma like the … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Nonsensical Thoughts When Thinking about Gorgias
If you are awake at two in the morning with Plato and Socrates, you’re in bad company. Funnily enough, just before I decided to write this blog post about Gorgias, a friend on mine on facebook made public that she is attending an event at UBC. The cover photo for the event reads in […] Continue reading →
its not even my week to write but whatever
let me just say that i read gorgias in three sittings and each time i had to lay down for a bit to think about what i just read. it was a lot to take in! but basically, gorgias affirmed … Continue reading → Continue reading →
its not even my week to write but whatever
let me just say that i read gorgias in three sittings and each time i had to lay down for a bit to think about what i just read. it was a lot to take in! but basically, gorgias affirmed … Continue reading → Continue reading →
myself
greetings fellow members of the greatest and most illustrious arts one seminar! there are some things that I cannot talk about without sounding utterly pretentious – model united nations, the history of the British monarchy, film (who says film? – just call it a … Continue reading → Continue reading →