{"id":4485,"date":"2009-08-11T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philosophyforchildren.org\/august\/"},"modified":"2009-08-11T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T18:22:00","slug":"august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/august\/","title":{"rendered":"August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/SoHJx_8nNWI\/AAAAAAAAARA\/qud31w87e0o\/s1600-h\/118_1838.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368794091618776418\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 244px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/SoHJx_8nNWI\/AAAAAAAAARA\/qud31w87e0o\/s400\/118_1838.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000066;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000066;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#000066;\">I dwell in Possibility \u2013 <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000066;\">A fairer House than Prose \u2013 <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000066;\">More numerous of Windows \u2013<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Superior \u2013 for Doors \u2013 <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000066;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Of Chambers as the Cedars \u2013 <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Impregnable of Eye \u2013 <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000066;\">And for an Everlasting Roof<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000066;\">The Gambrels of the Sky \u2013 <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000066;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Of Visitors \u2013 the fairest \u2013 <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000066;\">For Occupation \u2013 This \u2013 <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000066;\">The spreading wide my narrow Hands<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000066;\">To gather Paradise \u2013 <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000066;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Emily Dickinson<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">August Birthdays<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><\/span><br \/>August 6 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/malebranche\/\">Nicolas Malebranche<\/a> (French, born 1638) <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>August 7 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/goodman-aesthetics\/\">Nelson Goodman<\/a> (American, born 1906) <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>August 10 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Lyotard\">Jean-Francois Lyotard<\/a> (French, born 1924) <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>August 16 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catherine_Trotter_Cockburn\">Catherine Trotter Cockburne<\/a> (British, born 1679) <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>August 19 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/ryle\/\">Gilbert Ryle<\/a> (British, born 1900) <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>August 20 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Tillich\">Paul Tillich<\/a> (German-American, born 1886) <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>August 22 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Scheler\">Max Scheler<\/a> (German, born 1874) <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>August 23 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jakob_Friedrich_Fries\">Jakob Friedrich Fries<\/a> (German, born 1773) <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>August 25 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karl_Joseph_Hieronymus_Windischmann\">Karl Joseph Hieronymus Windischmann<\/a> (German, born 1775) and <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/herder\/\">Johann Gottfried von Herder<\/a> (German, born 1744) <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>August 27 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/hamann\/\">Johann Georg Hamann<\/a> (German, born 1730) and <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/hegel\/\">Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel<\/a> (German, born 1770) <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>August 29 <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/locke\/\">John Locke<\/a> (British, born 1632)<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dwell in Possibility \u2013 A fairer House than Prose \u2013 More numerous of Windows \u2013Superior \u2013 for Doors \u2013 Of Chambers as the Cedars \u2013 Impregnable of Eye \u2013 And for an Everlasting RoofThe Gambrels of the Sky \u2013 Of Visitors \u2013 the fairest \u2013 For Occupation \u2013 This \u2013 The spreading wide my <a href=\"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/august\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  August<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems","category-wondering-aloud"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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