Archives for October 2007
How Cool is This?
If you are an old fart like me, then you will remember, a series of cheesy 70′s movies called “The Cannonball Run”. The very pinnacle of 70′s camp, this movie has a plot line that is in keeping with the whole 70′s return to the basics. By return the basics I mean, the sixties had [...]
The Satyricon
The Burnaby Translation Went to my favorite used book store and found a copy of the Satyricon, translated to english by William Burnaby in 1694. The book was written, during the Imperial Roman era by Titus Petronius. Nothing is known of Petronius except for a few fragments believed to be of the same man: From [...]
Republic
The Republic offers a reasoned argument for why a person should live a just, rather than an unjust, life. It does so without recourse to religion or natural law or appeals to self evidence. In the process of the proof, the nature of a just society is also described and how the various unjust forms [...]