Monthly Archives: February 2020

My techne: watch more classic films, highly rated and respected films, watch more coming-of-age films (so more films in general) Today I started watching the 2017 film Moonlight. It was directed by Barry Jenkins and won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2017. It follows the story of a young boy Chiron living in […]

A list of biases toward oligarchy: Plato will always see more problems with the other societies since he most highly valued The Republic. Plato believed that Oligarchy had more problems than Timarchy. However, he is biased because he was more favorable of Timarchy because they more closely mirrored Sparta, and Plato loved Sparta. He admired […]

When I was assigned the techne development project I was ready to play it safe and pick something I was already good at and just become even better at it. However, I know that true growth stems from real change and that I need to step out of my comfort zone. For my techne project, […]

I think the debates are actually going really well. I’ve had a lot of fun dressing up for all of the days. Being in character really helps me get in the mood to defend the oligarchy! I also love debating so the dialectic rounds have been especially enjoyable for me. The most challenging thing for […]

A potential verse for the song “Just Another Holy Man” by Floyd Red Crow, but about Copernicus: There was a man named Nicolaus CopernicusWho knew the golden sun did not revolve around us Found the glow was at the center The heliocentric universe was much better Religious leaders were not progressiveThey thought Copernicus was too […]

“A line is cut into two unequal parts, and each of them is divided again in the same proportion. The two main divisions correspond to the intelligible world and to the visible world. One section in the visible division consists of images, that is,shadows and reflections, and is accessed through imagination. The other, higher section […]