ARAB PHILOSOPHY THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION It is my prejudice that the study of anything should begin with the study of its history. (We may notice that...
ARAB PHILOSOPHY IT IS MY PREJUDICE THAT THE STUDY OF JUST ABOUT ANYTHING SHOULD BEGIN WITH THE STUDY OF ITS HISTORY. (NOTICE THAT ARISTOTLE DID JUST THAT.) IF...
PLEASE EXCUSE MY INEPTITUDES. THAT LAST MSG SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN SENT FOUR TIMES. I AM LEARNING TO USE A NEW IMAC, A PROCEDURE I HEARTILY RECOMMEND, BUT ONE...
In the last two or three weeks I have composed three or four msgs, and they may have been lost, or they may have been sent, some unintended for immediate...
Paul, I think you hit the nail on the head. I know for fact that Lance is tied up by some problems of his own a the moment, and has avowed that he is behind...
Having tried to post several msgs continuing the last one about the Cambridge Companion, and having utterly lost them in the wild blue yonder of Internet space...
When I sit down with a text of Plato or Aristotle in front of me, I like to think of it as though I were having a live conversation with them themselves, and...
PLATO'S PARMENIDES, REVISITED To read and understand the Greeks, we must be children again, as they themselves were. "Solon, Solon," said the old Egyptian...
That was a bit fast and loose. I was trying to see how well I could re-construct the Parmenides, without picking up the text. "Close, but no cigar," as the...
... [p. xix, Kenneth M. Sayre, _Parmenides' Lesson_ (1996)] For reasons examined at length below, it now appears (i) that the arguments of hypotheses 1 and 6...
The Revisit Put to Test The reason for my revisit to the Parmenides last week (3/29/06) was to see if I understood the fundamentals of Plato's account of the...
PLATO'S PARMENIDES, REVISITED (amended) To read and understand the Greeks, we must be children again, as they themselves were. "Solon, Solon," said the old...
I have a question about 'haeccity' or this-ness from Aristotle's standpoint. It is said that what is called a substance most fully, primarily, and most of...
Giordano Bruno said that Aristotle entertained opposed ideas: The this is either a womb which expells predicates, or it's a lifeless vessel abandoned by...
This is another review, for those of you who came in late. There are two kinds of logic, (1) linear and (2) non-linear. (1) Linear logic proceeds as though in...
My plato-timaeus list has been quiet for some time, but a few subscribers have recently indicated a desire to launch a slow reading of this dialogue. If you...
What are we to make of Plato's Parmenides? My candid impression is that we have all been wrong in the way we have approached this dialogue throughout all time....
In the course of moving, this past Winter and Spring, I ran across a binder of old papers that I wrote at least twenty five years ago. The cover bears the...
If we look back at the twentieth century as a whole, what - would we say - characterizes it? Prominently the occurrence of two huge world wide organized...
Aristotle's Peri psuchEs is the first extended treatise on psychology. This title is usually translated "On the Soul," but that is a misnomer. "Soul" carries...
More on the DaimOnion and the subconscious "Why is the subconsious useful?" Why does our conscious mind "interfere with our thoughts"? Our thoughts are slaves...
This is the most lucid thing I have come across in recent times. Steve Learnard Metaphysics, Aristotle, tr. by Thomas Taylor Wisdom, therefore, considered as a...
Recently I was looking t the archives of these two lists for about ten years ago, curious to see if what I had to say at that time still seemed any good. What...
A PROLEGOMENA TO A REVIEW OF ARISTOTLE'S METAPHYSICS The world has two aspects. One we touch, see, hear, etc. The other we imagine or think about. We call the...
Greetings, I am plodding slowly through some readings by Aristotle and I noticed in the Metaphysics where he wrote (last line of part VI Book 1) The...
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