Review: The Symposium by Plato, ️
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Fun ending! Also fun to see athens mentioned while reading it in athens.

Review: The Symposium by Plato, ️
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Fun ending! Also fun to see athens mentioned while reading it in athens.
Is your AI assistant thinking...
or just echoing a billion borrowed thoughts?
A sharp ride through philosophy, consciousness, and code.
#AI #Philosophy #Plato #ChatGPT #Brewminate
https://brewminate.com/can-ai-think-should-it-what-it-means-to-think-from-plato-to-chatgpt/
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Plato’s Ion ~ Of art and divine inspiration – philosophy indefinitely…
This dialogue expounds on artistic ability and divine inspiration, it begins with Socrates meeting Ion in Athens. Ion says that he just won the first prize at a recital competition in Epidaurus, and hopes to win again at the Panathenaea in Athens soon... continue reading at philosophy indefinitely: #philosophy #plato #art #metaphysics #socrates
For Plato, the difference between a deplorable tyrant and a worthy king is not a matter of the structure of governance — much less a matter of the centralization of power — but rather a matter of character. Both kings and tyrants exercise absolute control, but tyrants are beholden to their appetites, while kings obey the dictates of reason.
#Bookreview #philosophy #history #Plato #Republic #tyranny #PoliSci #politics #Greece
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/06/13/plato-tyrant-james-romm-review/
#DLR:
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ESA-Weltraumteleskop PLATO zusammengefügt
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"Das Weltraumteleskop PLATO der ESA soll Ende 2026 starten und ab 2027 mit der Suche nach erdähnlichen Planeten beginnen, die sonnenähnliche Sterne umkreisen.
Die optische Bank des Teleskops mit ihren 26 Kameras ist nun in das Servicemodul des Raumfahrzeugs integriert worden .."
https://www.dlr.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/2025/esa-weltraumteleskop-plato-zusammengefuegt
30.6.2025
Auf der Suche nach erdähnlichen Planeten: Das Weltraumteleskop #PLATO der European Space Agency @esa wurde erfolgreich zusammengefügt. Damit soll es ab 2027 ins All gehen. Das Zusammensetzen der zwei Hauptkomponenten "ist ein bedeutender Schritt für die gesamte Mission" betont Prof. Dr. Heike Rauer von der #FUBerlin und dem Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt @DLR
Mehr dazu https://tinyurl.com/mission-plato
So I saw this online debate on ideas about the future and someone said that ai chatbots could never instigate any future because they're fixated on the past. And that made me remember the Socratic/Plato thing about dialogic learning and that writing is essentially dead words on a page because the writer (if they are dead) cannot argue or develop new ideas.
And they really had a point didn't they?
#plato #dialogism #academicchatter
Plato's Argument Against Writing
https://fs.blog/an-old-argument-against-writing/
Plato’s Ion ~ Of art and divine inspiration – philosophy indefinitely…
This dialogue expounds on artistic ability and divine inspiration, it begins with Socrates meeting Ion in Athens. Ion says that he just won the first prize at a recital competition in Epidaurus, and hopes to win again at the Panathenaea in Athens soon... continue reading at philosophy indefinitely: #philosophy #plato #art #metaphysics #socrates
New Song! "The Price" — About that loudly uninformed, cynical guy who rants about politics but refuses to learn anything. Or all of those guys.
@Ruth_Mottram @vkc @kde
Linux has a lot of image and video libraries and apps. I've used some of them a lot to take and process lunar and planetary images like the one below of the #plato Crater region.
A Linux app operated the video camera that took the images, a Linux app stripped out the frames for processing, a Linux program that I wrote aligned and stacked the frames, and a Linux app provideed the tools to sharpen the resulting image.
Is the #Rapture in the Sky or on Earth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zea4vOxJeTs
#NewTestament: #1Thessalonians 4:14–18. While many modern #Christians imagine the "Rapture" as being taken into #heaven forever, Paul had a very different—and far more cosmic—view. Drawing on #Greek and #Romanphilosophy, especially #MiddlePlatonism and #Stoicism, Paul describes spiritual (#pneumatic) bodies, #atmospheric levels, and even an invisible, #divine substance animating #creation.
With #Mozilla yeeting #Pocket and Towel Day coming to an end, it was high time I rush to finish my blog about how I switched to #KOReader and #Wallabag to make my reading workflows better.
There is also a sprinkle of #Plato, #Nextcloud, #CalibreWeb, #OPDS and #YunoHost in the mix ;)
https://matija.suklje.name/trying-out-koreader-and-wallabag-the-first-few-days-and-months
TL;DR:
• it’s easy to set up
• it takes a few hours/days to getting used to
• it’s very much worth it
Among the books I grabbed at the local bookcrossing spot yesterday was a little brochure of the 1956 English translation of Phaedrus by W.C. Helmbold and W.G. Rabinowitz (Twelfth edition from 1975). The pages are covered in pencil notes in Hebrew, but that’s not the interesting part — as I read it, I imagine Socrates speaking in Stephen Fry’s voice. Very, very amusingly fitting.
That said, Charles Dance’s voice would work brilliantly too.
We joyously honor #Plato, greatest of all western mystics and philosophers, born 21 May 427 BC. Truly a saint of #Antinous! Savor this Symbolist painting of #Platon's academy by #JeanDelville on exhibit at the Musee Orsay in Paris. Full tribute here: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-birth-of-plato-saint-of-antinous.html
Happy Birthday, #Plato! Born 21 May 427 BC. For the beautiful light in which Plato illuminated the inner nature of homosexual love, he is venerated as a divine Saint of the Religion of #Antinous. Art by #RogerPayne: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-birth-of-plato-saint-of-antinous.html