I've been trying to come up with an interesting X word for you! LOL.
How about this?
X is for Xenocrates. Bartlet. The West Wing.
Xenocrates. Like Socrates. Both Greek dudes. Both philosophers. *GRIN*
From Reference.com: "Xenocrates, 396-314 B.C., Greek philosopher, b. Chalcedon, successor of Speusippus as head of the Academy. He was a disciple of Plato, whom he accompanied to Sicily in 361 B.C. His ascetic life and noble character greatly influenced his pupils. He was the first to divide philosophy into dialectic (or logic), physics, and ethics, the latter two being his principal themes. He held that mathematical objects and the Platonic Ideas are both substances, and both identical, causing Aristotle to say of him that he "made ideal and mathematical number the same." His Platonic ethics taught that virtue produces happiness, although external goods can contribute. Only fragments of his work survive."
Anything trip your writing trigger? Hee hee. I'm especially amused by that comment about how his Platonic ethics taught him that "virtue produces happiness, although external goods can contribute." External goods. LOL. That's a fancy way of saying, "being good will make you happy but it's also fun to have stuff." :D
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Date: 2009-04-30 05:03 pm (UTC)How about this?
X is for Xenocrates. Bartlet. The West Wing.
Xenocrates. Like Socrates. Both Greek dudes. Both philosophers. *GRIN*
From Reference.com: "Xenocrates, 396-314 B.C., Greek philosopher, b. Chalcedon, successor of Speusippus as head of the Academy. He was a disciple of Plato, whom he accompanied to Sicily in 361 B.C. His ascetic life and noble character greatly influenced his pupils. He was the first to divide philosophy into dialectic (or logic), physics, and ethics, the latter two being his principal themes. He held that mathematical objects and the Platonic Ideas are both substances, and both identical, causing Aristotle to say of him that he "made ideal and mathematical number the same." His Platonic ethics taught that virtue produces happiness, although external goods can contribute. Only fragments of his work survive."
Anything trip your writing trigger? Hee hee. I'm especially amused by that comment about how his Platonic ethics taught him that "virtue produces happiness, although external goods can contribute." External goods. LOL. That's a fancy way of saying, "being good will make you happy but it's also fun to have stuff." :D