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Knowledge Reform » Philosophy http://www.knowledgereform.com Inspirational Words of Wisdom, Knowledge & Philosophy Resource Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:16:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Wisdom Books: Discourses of Epictetus http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/24/wisdom-books-discourses-of-epictetus/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/24/wisdom-books-discourses-of-epictetus/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:49:21 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=13116 Product Description Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. Together with the Enchiridion, a manual of his main ideas, and the fragments collected [...]

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]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/16/thought-provoking-documentaries-krishnamurti-the-real-revolution/feed/ 0 Wisdom Books: The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/29/wisdom-books-the-nicomachean-ethics-by-aristotle/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/29/wisdom-books-the-nicomachean-ethics-by-aristotle/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:14:56 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=12877 In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul in accordance with virtue’, for example with moral virtues, such as courage, generosity and justice, and intellectual virtues, such as knowledge, wisdom and insight. The Ethics also discusses the nature of practical [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/29/wisdom-books-the-nicomachean-ethics-by-aristotle/feed/ 0 Aristotle’s Practical Wisdom Towards Living Virtuously http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/22/aristotles-practical-wisdom-towards-living-virtuously/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/22/aristotles-practical-wisdom-towards-living-virtuously/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:17:35 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=12826 “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Goethe starts this post with an apt quote which states, perhaps wisely, how one should apply the knowledge and experiences, they have accumulated in life, towards making the best possible decisions. Therefore, by making a reasoned [...]

No related posts.]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/22/aristotles-practical-wisdom-towards-living-virtuously/feed/ 0 Wisdom Books: Corpus Hermeticum by Hermes Trismegistus http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/19/wisdom-books-corpus-hermeticum-by-hermes-trismegistus/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/19/wisdom-books-corpus-hermeticum-by-hermes-trismegistus/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:33:06 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=12049 The Hermetica are a body of theological-philosophical texts written in late antiquity, but long believed to be much older. Their supposed author, Hermes Trismegistus, was thought to be a contemporary of Moses, and the Hermetic philosophy was regarded as an ancient theology, parallel to the received wisdom of the Bible. Excerpt from Corpus Hermeticum: The [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/19/wisdom-books-corpus-hermeticum-by-hermes-trismegistus/feed/ 0 Wisdom Books: The Golden Verses of Pythagoras And Other Pythagorean Fragments http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/09/wisdom-books-the-golden-verses-of-pythagoras-and-other-pythagorean-fragments/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/09/wisdom-books-the-golden-verses-of-pythagoras-and-other-pythagorean-fragments/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:46:12 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=12579 The ripe sayings of the Ancient Wisdom, as spoken again in the world of Greece–a world so much vaster than the area of the Greek peninsula–are somewhat fading from the minds born anew into the hurrying life of the twentieth-century West. But the West cannot afford to let them fade away, for more than ever [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/09/wisdom-books-the-golden-verses-of-pythagoras-and-other-pythagorean-fragments/feed/ 0 Wisdom Books: Confucius and Socrates: Teaching Wisdom by Sanderson Beck http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/11/17/wisdom-books-confucius-and-socrates-teaching-wisdom-by-sanderson-beck/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/11/17/wisdom-books-confucius-and-socrates-teaching-wisdom-by-sanderson-beck/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:28:00 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=12405 This detailed study of the lives and teachings of Confucius and Socrates compares how and what they taught in order to help others to become wiser. The appendix includes English translations of ancient texts describing their teaching in action. An excerpt taken from the introduction of the book Confucius and Socrates: Teaching Wisdom: Confucius and [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/11/17/wisdom-books-confucius-and-socrates-teaching-wisdom-by-sanderson-beck/feed/ 0 John Galt Speaks To The World http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/11/06/john-galt-speaks-to-the-world/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/11/06/john-galt-speaks-to-the-world/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:23:49 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=12271 The following video is a powerful and thought-provoking speech taken from the Ayn Rand book ‘Atlas Shrugged’. A dramatization of the John Galt speech by: Richard Gleaves Related posts: Society Must Become The Sunlight Of Reason To Eliminate Institutional Violence Will ‘Ten Years’ Be Enough To Solve Nature Crisis? The Wise Progression of Humankind: Primitivism [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/11/06/john-galt-speaks-to-the-world/feed/ 0 Ancient Egyptian Wisdom: Egypt – Source of All Knowledge and Wisdom? http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/10/13/ancient-egyptian-wisdom-egypt-source-of-all-knowledge-and-wisdom/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/10/13/ancient-egyptian-wisdom-egypt-source-of-all-knowledge-and-wisdom/#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:31:10 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=11720 In a series of posts I will take you way back to some of the earliest Egyptian philosophers and sages in antiquity who imparted their writings (mostly in hieroglyphic form), maxims and quotes displaying their wisdom and virtues that have stood the test of time. First we will discover the wise maxims of Ptahhotep, sometimes [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/10/13/ancient-egyptian-wisdom-egypt-source-of-all-knowledge-and-wisdom/feed/ 3 Book Review: Wisdom Bible by Sanderson Beck http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/09/24/book-review-wisdom-bible-by-sanderson-beck/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/09/24/book-review-wisdom-bible-by-sanderson-beck/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:31:02 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=11712 Description: Wisdom Bible is a collection of the greatest spiritual and philosophical classics from ancient Daoism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Platonism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Whole texts are included, but only selections from the Qur’an. The four Gospels are synthesized into one narrative combining all the elements. About the Author: Sanderson Beck earned a [...]

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