By José Vilson
José Vilson writes approximately race, type, and schooling via tales from the study room and researched essays. His upward thrust from rookie math instructor to renowned instructor chief takes a twist while he's taking on schooling reform via his now-blocked eponymous weblog, TheJoseVilson.com. He demands the reclaiming of the schooling occupation whereas looking social justice.
José Vilson is a center university math educator for within the Inwood/Washington Heights local of latest York urban. He writes for Edutopia, GOOD, and TransformED / way forward for Teaching, and his paintings has seemed in Education Week, CNN.com, Huffington Post, and El Diario / l. a. Prensa.
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By the time we reach Socrates, the subject of immortality is up philosophically, as in the Phaedo. We have noticed that characters in these poems are well aware that their stories will be sung ‘‘forever’’ by the poets, nor were they wrong. Probably every educated person, even today, knows at least something, however sketchy, about Achilles, Odysseus, and Helen of Troy. ’’ His word noble there is complicated. The idea that fame constitutes immortality is a noble idea in the sense that it is characteristic of Homer’s aristocratic culture.
The characters in Homer know their stories will be sung by the poets. Aristotle drew the elements of areté together in a pedagogical synthesis in his portrait of the magnanimous man in the Ethics. He also composed a hymn to his friend Hermias, prince of Atarneus, who had died for his moral and philosophical ideals. The hymn explicitly connects Aristotle’s own conception of permanent pattern with Homer. ∂ The remarkable thing about Homer’s epics is that, magnificent narratives as they are, they were also implicitly philosophical.
Before Sodom and Gomorrah he rashly bargains with God, asking him first whether he will destroy the cities if there are fifty just men there and, receiving the answer no, proceeds to bargain him down to ten. The tough caravan bargainer probably does not dare push God further.