Hello All, I apologise for all duplications. *The Greeks: Crucible of Civilisation* will air on PBS this week (February 9 in most places of the United...
Mr. Christopher Plane...
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Feb 7, 2000 12:54 pm
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Kalev Pehme's remarks on style, Friday 28 January, on the Aristotle-met list (onelist.com) prompted some reflections on my part. I agree with you, Kalev, that...
Edward Little
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Feb 12, 2000 6:17 pm
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, today, 22 Feb 00, page B1 (Marketplace section), column six (rt. hand side): Plato in the headline. Don't miss it!...
Edward Little
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Feb 22, 2000 6:57 pm
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Kalev, I continue to think about our exchanges: Let us not forget, since we are talking now about the UPM and its noetic "nature," as described by Aristotle...
Edward Little
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Mar 5, 2000 6:41 pm
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***Freelance News*** This is to announce that the strauss-reading list has been re-established -- as a forum for close readings of texts by Leo Strauss. The...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
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Mar 30, 2000 8:02 am
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***Freelance News*** The Free Lance Academy is pleased to announce the formation of a new slow reading list to support slow readings of Plato's Timaeus. If...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
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Mar 31, 2000 6:46 pm
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It has been very quiet on this list for several months, which is OK. Plato and Parmenides have been around for along time, and it appears a good bet that they...
Edward Little
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Apr 15, 2000 8:35 pm
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fabrifj@... escribi: My 'Brockhaus Enzyklopaedie' says: *Berlin 21.3.1882; 1914 Prof. in Berlin, 1920 in Marburg, 1932 in Halle, 1939 an der Johns...
Carmen Zavala
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May 19, 2000 2:05 pm
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For the past two or three months activity has been very quiet on these two slow reading lists initiated under the auspices of Lance Fletcher's Freelance...
Edward Little
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Jun 17, 2000 4:03 pm
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In the course of preparing some copies of texts for Myriam Libran and others I have found that conversion of many of them to text files for transmission over...
Edward Little
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Jun 21, 2000 1:11 am
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ENVOI People continue to join these two lists, and people leave. I am always surprised at the continuing interest in metaphysics, and am not surprised at the...
Edward Little
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Aug 11, 2000 7:22 pm
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12 August on the Aristotle-met list, Kalev Pehme stated objections to the "modern approach to metaphysics . . . where negation eventually comletely negates...
Edward Little
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Aug 18, 2000 2:48 am
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12 August on the Aristotle-met list, Kalev Pehme stated objections to the "modern approach to metaphysics . . . where negation eventually comletely negates...
Edward Little
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Aug 18, 2000 3:50 am
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Just came across my desk. I have only read a couple of Thesleff's works, and *Studies in Platonic Chronology* is the only one I have read in any detail (and...
Mr. Christopher Plane...
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Aug 22, 2000 8:35 pm
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Philip Merlan, in his book, From Platonism to Neoplatonism (The Hague, Nijhoff, 1968), traces textual connections between these two movements. What has always...
Edward Little
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Sep 2, 2000 4:14 pm
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Dear Parmenideans I wouold like to investigate the Parmenides with an eye to the refutation by Parmenides of Socrates and compare it to the refutation of...
william oates
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Sep 8, 2000 7:24 pm
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... Can you clarify this analogy more rigorously for us to begin?...
kosta.simopoulos@...
Sep 9, 2000 5:01 am
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... Actually not yet, but I hope that we may over time. Let me just say that the "refutation" of Socrates by Parmenides does not make sense to me. Likewise...
william oates
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Sep 9, 2000 2:00 pm
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Dear Bill, Look at Bertrand Russell's PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS where he discusses Plato's Parmenides. Judy Wubnig...
Judy Wubnig
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Sep 11, 2000 5:14 pm
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... Ok. Just for fun though, did you catch the joke at the begnning of the dialogue in regards to the "half" brother Antiphon? :) Kosta...
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Sep 11, 2000 10:50 pm
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Judy Thanks I will look for that. Being in Hamilton -Home of the Russel Archives- I should know about this. Bill...
william oates
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Sep 12, 2000 12:39 am
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Kosta OK I missed that one although the beginning is so full of puns and twists that I am not surprised. But then a joke explained is not overly funny so let...
william oates
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Sep 12, 2000 12:39 am
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Hi Bill, Its a mathematical joke. Antiphon the "half" brother, in a dialogue about Parmenides, the expounder of the One....
kosta.simopoulos@...
Sep 12, 2000 3:29 am
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Kosta Set me thinking though that this dialogue makes much more sense as a satyr play. Imagine Parmenides and Zeno dressed as satyrs and making their wierd ...
william oates
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Sep 12, 2000 8:25 pm
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... Dear Kosta, I'm not sure that I have gotten the joke. Antiphon is giving instructions to a smith about making a bit when Adeimantus and Glaucon come to...
Judy Wubnig
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Sep 13, 2000 12:13 am
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Hi Judy, Its a kind of joke on Parmenides logic as applied to humans and the cosmogenesis humans partake in(this points to the participation in the eidos...
kosta.simopoulos@...
Sep 13, 2000 12:43 am
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... [snip] ... [snip] ... Actually ... Glaukon, Adeimantos, Platon, Potone, and Antiphon all shared the same mother. Ariston, however, died sometime circa...
Mr. Christopher Plane...
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Sep 13, 2000 2:30 pm
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... Bill, You obviously are not a devotee of Dick Francis mysteries or of Monty Roberts! A racehorse dumb indeed! 3 items: The star statue at the National...
Judy Wubnig
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Sep 13, 2000 8:06 pm
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Thanks for the post excellent post Mr.Planeaux. My point was that Parmenides, like say Spinoza, is not able to explain genesis, especially human genesis(isnt...
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Sep 13, 2000 9:19 pm
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Judy ... Why else do they need bits in their mouths? ... Clearly there was a problem with gambling on the ponies-I have rarely enjoyed such a risky venture but...
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