The Clouds
by:
Aristophanes (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781604245752 (1604245751)
Publisher: Book Jungle
Pages no: 92
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Humor,
Comedy,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Philosophy,
Greece
(Original Review, 2002-06-20)In Taoism the idea of the relativity of judgement is important. So to describe something as heavy is neither true nor false since in different contexts any particular object could be usefully described as both heavy and light.Language uses binary oppositions like heavy/l...
Good and at times laugh out loud funny. Just goes to show one can learn complex ideas while being entertained. I would favorably compare this play to the recent movies of Woody Allen.Librevox has a free audio version available.
“Well, what do the slanderers say? They shall be my prosecutors, and I will sum up their words in an affidavit: 'Socrates is an evil-doer, and a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctri...
“Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.” - George PrenticeStrepsiades is an elderly Athenian whose sleep has been troubled lately due to his mounting debts. he devises a plan and asks his son Pheidippides to enroll at The Thinkery. the young...
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