A doctor's notes about Ancient Philosophy: The Eleatic School, Xenophanes:
Per the late Dr. Jonathan Dolhenty was the Founder and President of The Center for Applied Philosophy and the Radical Academy, and is Honorary Philosophy Editor at The Moral Liberal.
- "To represent the gods as men is to alter their nature in order to make them similar to us. These errors are due to the imaginations of men. ... it seems that Xenophanes confused God with space and with the universe taken it its totality."
Per the late Dr. Jonathan Dolhenty was the Founder and President of The Center for Applied Philosophy and the Radical Academy, and is Honorary Philosophy Editor at The Moral Liberal.
- Read full article at Self-Educated American: Ancient Philosophers: The Eleatic School, Xenophanes (Apologies, Article was unpublished.)
- If interested further in the Pre-Socratic writings of this philosophical poet who lived in the ancient Greek world during the 6th and 5th centuries B.C., Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments (Phoenix Presocractic Series)
is an English translation of the surviving fragments of Xenophanes’ teachings.
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Oh if only the writings of one of the philosophers could tell me where to find the philosopher’s stone
.What??!! Is it so wrong to desire gold without having to pan or dig for it; and to wish to remain forever young? :)
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