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  • 1Epimetheus (moon) — Infobox Planet name = Epimetheus caption = As imaged by Cassini on December 3, 2007 bgcolour = #a0ffa0 discovery = yes discoverer = Richard Walker discovered = December 18, 1966 orbit ref =cite journal | author= Spitale, J. N.; et al. | title=… …

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  • 2Epimetheus (mythology) — In Greek mythology, Epimetheus (Greek: Polytonic|Ἐπιμηθεύς) ( hindsight , literally hind thought, but in the manner of a fool looking behind, while running forward) was the brother of Prometheus ( foresight , literally fore thought ), a pair of… …

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  • 3Epimetheus Society — Infobox Organization name = Epimetheus Society image border = size = 80 caption = Membership Card Logo msize = mcaption = motto = formation = 2006 extinction = type = High IQ Society headquarters = location = membership = cca. 30 (Sept. 2007)… …

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  • 4Epimetheus — Ep·i·me·the·us (ĕp ə mēʹthē əs, thyo͞os) n. 1. Greek Mythology. A Titan, husband of Pandora, who together with his brother Prometheus took part in the creation of the human race. 2. Astronomy. The satellite of Saturn that is sometimes the fifth… …

    Universalium

  • 5Epimetheus — noun Son of Iapetus and Clymene, brother to Atlas, Menoetius and Prometheus, of whom he ignored warnings to beware of any gifts from Zeus. He accepted Pandora as his wife, thereby bringing sorrow to the world; father to Pyrrha …

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  • 6EPIMETHEUS —    (i. e. Afterthought), the brother of Prometheus (Forethought), who in spite of the warnings of the latter opened Pandora s box, and let loose a flood of evils on the earth, which oppress it to this day …

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  • 7Epimetheus — /ɛpəˈmiθiəs/ (say epuh meetheeuhs) noun Greek Legend the brother of Prometheus and husband of Pandora …

  • 8Technics and Time, 1 — Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus (French: La technique et le temps, 1: La faute d Épiméthée ) is a book by the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, first published by Galilée in 1994. The English translation, by George Collins and… …

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  • 9Socrates and the beginnings of moral philosophy — Hugh H.Benson INTRODUCTION Cicero in Tusculan Disputations famously tells us that Socrates first called philosophy down from the sky, set it in cities and even introduced it into homes, and compelled it to consider life and morals, good and evil …

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  • 10Polis and its culture (The) — The polis and its culture Robin Osborne INTRODUCTION ‘We love wisdom without becoming soft’, Thucydides has the Athenian politician Pericles claim, using the verb philosophein.1 Claims to, and respect for, wisdom in archaic Greece were by no… …

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