A Must for Atheist!!! | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 hidden)
My Bad (none / 0)
In the movie the burning of the library isn't shown, maybe I supposed it 'cause I knew the library was eventually burned so don't take my word for it. What is true is what happens to poor Hypatia

I think thre movie isn't anti cristian, its anti religious fundmentalism. Also late Greeks were more into Neoplantonism not exactly pagan religion but religion based more on Reason (Like the Deist) and not on fairytales.

by JaimeH on 10/13/2009 03:11:09 AM EST

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Plato was full of shit (none / 0)
Sorry, but, Plato was full of shit.

Go read Plato's Republic and you'll see what I mean. It does not describe any sort of a Republic, but rather an antlike, rigidly-stratified society based on castes fixed at birth with no movement between castes possible. It is a nightmare totalitarian society straight out of George Orwell.

Plato was an asshole, in my book. Had Socrates lived to see what Plato turned into, he would have disowned and rejected him entirely.

by RedPossum on 10/13/2009 11:31:14 AM EST

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Wow! (none / 0)
Now that's philosophy in layman terms!!

by JaimeH on 10/13/2009 01:58:55 PM EST

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A Must for Atheist!!! | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 hidden)