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Atlantis Rising
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April 10, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

A couple of posts ago, when discussing Plato’s notion of contentment, I brought up the Lost Continent of Atlantis. Actually …
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Category: History, Myth, folk and faery | Tags: Atlantis, Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, contentment, failure, foreclosure, Ignatius L. Donnelly, Madame Blavatsky, memoir, myth, New Age, Plato
3 Badass Greek Philosophers on What Contentment Means
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March 13, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

I was complaining last week about the shallow approach to soul-building often found on the self-help shelves. Complaining is not …
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Category: Essays, Commentary, Reflection, History | Tags: Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Atlantis, Classical Period, contentment, Diogenes of Sinope, history of ideas, philosophy, Plato, Socrates, Xanthippe

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