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Knowledge Reform » Ancient Wisdom http://www.knowledgereform.com Inspirational Words of Wisdom, Knowledge & Philosophy Resource Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:09:11 +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 [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/24/wisdom-books-discourses-of-epictetus/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 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 Ancient Egyptian Wisdom: Akhenaten – The Pharaoh of Wisdom http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/10/31/ancient-egyptian-wisdom-akhenaten-the-pharaoh-of-wisdom/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/10/31/ancient-egyptian-wisdom-akhenaten-the-pharaoh-of-wisdom/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:35:09 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=10714 This post is part of the ‘Ancient Egyptian Wisdom’ series, please read the following first part: Ancient Egyptian Wisdom: Egypt – Source of All Knowledge and Wisdom? As we continue our mysterious but magical journey through ancient Egypt, we now come to a man who completely revolutionised the spiritual thinking and knowledge of his people [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/10/31/ancient-egyptian-wisdom-akhenaten-the-pharaoh-of-wisdom/feed/ 0 Educational Talks: Egypt in the New Millenium by Jordan Maxwell http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/10/27/educational-talks-egypt-in-the-new-millenium-by-jordan-maxwell/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/10/27/educational-talks-egypt-in-the-new-millenium-by-jordan-maxwell/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:57:58 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=12065 Jordan speaking at the Egypt in the New Millennium conference at Giza in 1999. A 90-minute talk on Egypt as the foundation for western religion, the Pyramids, and governmental structures of the world based on the ancient Egyptian system. Also discussed: Hollywood, the use of words, a general expose on the dark side of world [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/10/27/educational-talks-egypt-in-the-new-millenium-by-jordan-maxwell/feed/ 0 Ancient Egyptian Wisdom: The Maxims of Ptahhotep http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/10/20/ancient-egyptian-wisdom-the-maxims-of-ptahhotep/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/10/20/ancient-egyptian-wisdom-the-maxims-of-ptahhotep/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:17:29 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=11912 This post is part of the ‘Ancient Egyptian Wisdom’ series, please read the following first part: Ancient Egyptian Wisdom: Egypt – Source of All Knowledge and Wisdom? Ptahhotep, (flourished 2400 bce), vizier of ancient Egypt who attained high repute in wisdom literature. His treatise “The Maxims of Ptahhotep,” probably the earliest large piece of Egyptian [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/10/20/ancient-egyptian-wisdom-the-maxims-of-ptahhotep/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 Thought-Provoking Documentaries: Secret Mysteries Of America’s Beginnings Volume 3: Eye Of The Phoenix – Secrets of the Dollar Bill http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/10/04/thought-provoking-documentaries-secret-mysteries-of-americas-beginnings-vol-3-eye-of-the-phoenix-secrets-of-the-dollar-bill/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/10/04/thought-provoking-documentaries-secret-mysteries-of-americas-beginnings-vol-3-eye-of-the-phoenix-secrets-of-the-dollar-bill/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:58:45 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=11863 Watch Part 2 here: Secret Mysteries of America’s Beginnings Volume 2: Riddles in Stone – Secret Architecture of Washington, D.C. “Eye of the Phoenix” documents the bizarre history of the design of the dollar bill, exposing the occult activity surrounding the FDR administration. There is perhaps no other period in U.S. history when so many [...]

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