I came across this video while browsing YouTube. Very interesting discussion about Plato and his influence on Byzantine and Roman thought and theology.
Platonic Orientalism
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Slaying the Hydra
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This post was inspired by an essay written by an acquaintance of mine, political commentator and activist Avialae Horton. She wrote a piece "Conservatives: The Hercules to the Liberal Hydra" which appeared on The Columbian Post website. An interesting bit of synchronicity occurred around that article, and I had a short conversation with Ms. Horton which resulted in my thinking about the story...
Loyalty
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Loyalty can have many meanings and different objects. One can be loyal to different degrees, and one can be loyal to a cause, to a group, or to a person. But the primary definition of loyalty has to do with friends. "It is constituted centrally by perseverance in an association to which a person has become intrinsically committed as a matter of his or her identity