Random Musings by beYOUteous (Winter 2023)

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OBTAINING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH

P L U TAR C H :

SUSPENSION OF JUDGEMENT

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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

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lutarch was a first-century Greek Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi whose works influenced notable authors and scholars, including William Shakespeare and Francis Bacon. He’s said to have been born in Chaeronea, a city of Boeotia in central Greece around 45–47 CE where his family had long been settled.

R ANDOM MUSINGS BY BE YOU TEOUS


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