Xenophanes and His Philosophies Jul 5, 2009
He lived sometime in the 6th century between c.570-475BC. What is known is that since Heraclitus mentions him as a contemporary and critic of Pythagoras, and it can be roughly dated that he lived around the same time. Exiled by the Persian wars in Ionia to southern Italy, Xenophanes wandered in Ancient Greece as a poet and freethinker. (Suite101.com)
The Iowa my folks knew vs. now May 10, 2009
Its called evolution wrote on May 5, 2009 1:18 PM:" It's called evolution. Simple physics-the only thing that is ever constant is change. You say that this isn't your parent's Iowa anymore. Things change, people change, we grow, we improve, and we make mistakes and learn from them. That is how life works. I for one am immensely proud of the action that the Iowa Supreme Court took in making same sex marriage legal. But who are any of us to judge what another human being wants to do? Let people be... (Keokuk Daily Gate City, IO)
Does character no longer count? May 4, 2009
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus noted that character is destiny. America suffers a gaping character fault line that over time will do her greater damage than the current economic crisis. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Final punch line - What philosophers’ last days can tell us about death Apr 4, 2009
Deep thinker Heraclitus of ancient Greece fame had himself covered in cow dung as a medicinal cure (you ve got to wonder what ailment was worse), but alas, he suffocated in the stuff. Sigmund Freud, who famously observed that a cigar is sometimes just a cigar, failed to note they were bad for you, smoked up to 20 each day and died of cancer of the mouth. (Missoulian, MT)
Review: The Book of Dead Philosophers Feb 8, 2009
Heraclitus, who believed that everything was in a state of flux, died, according to one account, of drowning in cow dung. The philosopher Francis Bacon, that great champion of the empirical method, died of his own philosophy: In an effort to observe the effects of refrigeration, on a freezing cold day he stuffed a chicken with snow and caught pneumonia. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
