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From a cycle: Northern Tadmor
"Собака философ"
близ пляжа "Отрада", Одесса, Украина
декабрь 2015
из цикла: Северный Тадмор
Busts of Greek philosophers from Socrates to Epicurus as seen in the British Museum, London.
This is part of a series I took today as I tried to play around with my lenses and understand how depth of field works...
I used the drone to light this old tower built sometime in the 17 hundreds by the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury. Another great night out with Paul.
"The Refutation Of The Pseudo-philosophers " was painted by Ludwig Seitz as part of his 'Thomas Aquinas' series on the ceiling of the Gallery of the Candelabra.
The painting depicts Angels correcting the errors of the pseudo-philosophers by showing them the works of St Thomas Aquinas. The book held up by the central Angel is "Summa contra Gentiles", originally written as four books. It is said to be Thomas Aquinas' best known treatise on the truth of the Catholic faith.
Pio Clementino Museum, Vatican Museums; July 2019
Marble sculpture at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark.
My museum collection : www.flickr.com/photos/9619972@N08/collections/72157702215...
August 2013
Every year I go through a stage where I really want to re-read and re-watch all my Potter films. It usually hits about August/September time so here it comes for 2013!
This book was my introduction to the Harry Potter world. I love how it's a little unique within my collection because it's the American edition of the first novel, as Mum bought it in the airport for my older brother.
The first portrait on the lower row here is that of Pythagoras, the philosopher and mathematician.
In the Hall Philosophers are a large number of bust portraits of Greek and Roman philosophers and men of letters. Many of them are copies/reproductions created years/decades after the death of the person depicted and most are not specifically identified.
Capitoline Museum, Rome; July 2019
Past this building many a time and always wanted to photograph it.
It's on private ground but I was granted permission to take these shots under the conditions I wouldn't be selling them. Hence the watermark......I've had images stolen in the past and used. But it's something I've never let worry me too much, if I was trying to make money out of this I would be a little more careful on the quality of the images I post and would put the watermark in a much harder place to clone out.
Any way back to the tower.......it belongs to the Earl of Shaftesbury family. It was thought the 3rd Earl was a philosopher and spent many a time thinking here.
I know I could ponder quite happily here watching the gorgeous sunrises.
( When we get them that is! )
Philosopher's Tree
Had an unbelievable experience in Hokkaido recently. It felt nothing like Japan - so removed from the noise, constant torrent of rules, so completely free. I can't recommend it enough.
This shot was from the 2nd time we visited Biei's Philosopher's Tree. First visit was near noon which may provide some interesting BW compositions, but we woke up at 3AM to catch the sunrise the following day.
Getting up at maddening hours has become the norm when I'm traveling for photography. Once shooting starts all sense of exhaustion fades, the mind is locked, only the subject is present.
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Today, 25 November, is the feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria, who is the patroness of philosophers and preachers.
St. Catherine is believed to have been born in Alexandria of a noble family. Converted to Christianity through a vision, she denounced Maxentius for persecuting Christians. Fifty philosophers whom she is said to have converted by her eloquence were then burned to death by Maxentius.
Maxentius offered Catherine a royal marriage if she would deny the Faith. Her refusal landed her in prison. While in prison, and while Maxentius was away, Catherine converted Maxentius' wife and two hundred of his soldiers. He had them all put to death.
Finally, Catherine was likewise condemned to death. She was put on a spiked wheel, and when the wheel broke, she was beheaded.
She is depicted here, flanked by angels, in a splendid window by Edward Burne-Jones in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
Welche Philosophen sind oben zu sehen? | Which philosophers are shown above?
Um das Rätsel zu knacken: Kommentare oder Tags lesen. | In order to crack the riddle: Read the comments or tags.
Lord Bertrand Russell, the philosopher, smoking his ever-present pipe, as photographed around 1940 by George Platt Lynes.
Not sure how well this one turned out, but posting anyway.
The original: fineartvendor.com/cdn/shop/products/george-platt-lynes-lo...
"We understand that God, the Creator of all things, is superior to the things that are to be changed. If, therefore, on some points we teach the same things as the poets and philosophers whom you honour, and on other points are fuller and more divine in our teaching, and if we alone afford proof of what we assert, why are we unjustly hated more than all others? For while we say that all things have been produced and arranged into a world by God, we shall seem to utter the doctrine of Plato; and while we say that there will be a burning up of all, we shall seem to utter the doctrine of the Stoics: and while we affirm that the souls of the wicked, being endowed with sensation even after death, are punished, and that those of the good being delivered from punishment spend a blessed existence, we shall seem to say the same things as the poets and philosophers; and while we maintain that men ought not to worship the works of their hands, we say the very things which have been said by the comic poet Menander, and other similar writers, for they have declared that the workman is greater than the work."
- First Apology of St Justin Martyr, chapter XX
Today, 1 June, is the feast of St Justin Martyr, the philosopher martyred c.167 in Rome.
This mosaic is in a bath house in Ostia Antica.
"How do you examine yourself? What happens when you interrogate yourself? What happens when you begin to call into question your tacit assumptions and unarticulated presuppositions and begin, then, to become a different kind of person? The Socratic imperative of examining yourself requires courage in a way William Butler Yeats used to say it takes more courage to examine the dark corners or your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield. Courage to think critically. Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher, for any human being, I think, in the end: Courage to think, courage to love, courage to hope."
- Cornel West, The Examined Life
Glasgow, 2009.