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...
kosta.simopoulos@...
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...
william oates
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Sep 14, 2000 12:42 am
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Kosta and Christopher The half-brother has a different father which is quite significant in that he would have a different hearth to tend? Yes? Plato not able...
william oates
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Sep 14, 2000 12:48 am
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... Aha! The question about Plato was ironical Bill. Now to come to an earlier comment of yours and to tease out another joke in the text in regards to Zeno...
kosta.simopoulos@...
Sep 14, 2000 12:54 am
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... Tell me more about this Bill. I wonder what time of the year the dialogue takes place at? Has Attis been castrated? Thesmophoria? hmmm.... regards Kosta...
kosta.simopoulos@...
Sep 20, 2000 10:08 pm
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kosta ... The timing etc would probably be better answered by Christopher. Now do you mean the time in shell one the visit of Cephalus or the timing of...
william oates
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Sep 20, 2000 11:50 pm
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Tell me more about this Bill,: "Is the account of the one and the ... The timing intersts me because I think that Cephalus in the Politeia is imitating the...
kosta.simopoulos@...
Sep 20, 2000 11:56 pm
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... my reading of Parmenides poem is that it is best understood with a very close reading of Hesiod. I will try to find the book I read on this topic. The...
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