Why did Plato argue that remixing should be banned by the state? What threats did jazz and rock 'n roll pose? And what does all of that mean for the conflicts between artists and copyright today?
Plato of Athens (429-347BC) may be one of the most famous philosophers of all times. He was the thinker who came up with the “theory of forms” and founded the first academic institution. Yet we know ...
This comprehensive debunking of the idea that Atlantis is an actual historical location by classicist Kershaw (A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths) begins with Plato, the sole ancient source of the ...
In the days of mainframe computing, one system stood miles ahead of the rest. PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations) wasn’t special for its power or speed or graphical prowess, ...
How would you go about reading a rolled-up text that had transformed into a lump of coal? If you were ahead of your time in the 1700s, you could have created a complex machine to painstakingly unroll ...
More than 200 years ago, scholars glued the remains of an ancient papyrus scroll onto cardboard to preserve it. But the scroll, a history of Plato's Academy, also had writing on the back. Now scholars ...
In Process and Reality (1929), American philosopher Alfred North Whitehead famously remarked: ‘‘The safest general characterisation of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a ...
(MENAFN- The Conversation) Plato of Athens (429-347BC) may be one of the most famous philosophers of all times. He was the thinker who came up with the“theory of forms” and founded the first academic ...
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