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August 3, 2016

Prayer and Thinking

We began with me sharing some ideas about the connection between prayer and thinking. We discussed Poem 27 of the Dào Dé Jing along with some forays into Poem 1. Continue reading

August 1, 2016

Reverence Ritual Worship Worldview

For this class, we took a step back to explore a few concepts before we move from India to China. Continue reading

August 25, 2012

Shimer College and the Future: Text of David Shiner’s Euthyphro lecture

Every Shimer student in the Weekday program reads Plato’s Euthyphro as their first assignment in preparation for Orientation. This is appropriate, because Platonic dialogues such as the Euthyphro are typical of the sorts of texts that work particularly well in… Continue reading