This seems pertinent so I send it along: I have just finished reading John R. Searle, "The Rediscovery of the Mind," MIT, 1992 and 1994. This book is two...
Edward Little
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Aug 8, 2001 12:48 am
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Just finished Cornford's "Plato & Parmenides." I would be interested if anyone had any comments on his thesis... Also, Sorabji says that there are 15,000...
claude caspar
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Aug 8, 2001 3:18 am
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Yes, Claude: Cornford's comment on Plato and Parmenides is probably the most important thing written on this topic in the twentieth century, if not ever. He...
Edward Little
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Aug 8, 2001 1:31 pm
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Correction: second paragraph, first line, for "Not" read "Not ONLY". Excuse, please. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Edward Little
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Aug 8, 2001 1:35 pm
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Claude Caspar> Prof. Richard Sorabji's email address: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/philosophy/top.html He also teaches at the University of Texas at...
Sara Hermann
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Aug 8, 2001 5:30 pm
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Robert Brumbaugh's Plato's Parmenides may be of interest. Judy Wubnig...
Judy Wubnig
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Aug 8, 2001 6:05 pm
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much obliged- just ordered it ... From: Judy Wubnig Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 2:20 PM To: plato-parmenides@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re:...
claude caspar
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Aug 8, 2001 6:23 pm
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actually, I ordered: Plato on the One; the Hypotheses in the Parmenides Is that it? ... From: claude caspar Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 2:24 PM To:...
claude caspar
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Aug 8, 2001 6:28 pm
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Yes, that is the title - I had forgotten the actual title. JW...
Judy Wubnig
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Aug 8, 2001 6:48 pm
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Thinking and Being "To gar auto noein esti te kai einai." This saying of Parmenides of Elea, fragment number three in the collection of Hermann Diels, is...
Edward Little
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Aug 11, 2001 8:55 pm
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Thank you, David, and right on. Of course Parmenides' fragment #3 can supply the missing premise to Descartes' Cogito. My only point is that it would be an...
Edward Little
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Aug 13, 2001 12:49 pm
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Ravi, the original passage says that to think and to be ARE THE SAME, which would not be much different than to say, as you suggest, that to be and to think...
Edward Little
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Aug 13, 2001 1:25 pm
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I believe Kalev gets it right here on a profoundly important cognitive issue, however contentious & unresolved in some minds. This has been debated and is...
claude caspar
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Aug 16, 2001 9:30 am
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... In my mind `to think' and `to be' are not the same or at least the relation is not symmetric. Well, I think, to be able to think it is necessary to be but...
Ferenczi, Szabolcs
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Aug 16, 2001 11:03 am
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Aristotle, De anima One thing leads to another. In the course of exploring Plotinus to explain Parmenides' Fragment no 3, I was led back to Aristotle's De ...
Edward Little
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Aug 17, 2001 8:18 pm
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***Freelance News***
I am very pleased to announce the creation of a new Machiavelli group at
Yahoogroups. Actually I had created this list long ago, but,...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
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Aug 19, 2001 2:43 pm
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TO TI EN EINAI This is a most metaphysical of notions. I am going to treat it in "real time" here, as a story about how I came to grips with it. I first came...
Edward Little
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Aug 19, 2001 8:33 pm
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... There is an excellent study about this issue, if you are interested: Gabor Ferge: Emendations to the Reinterpretation of Aristotle's Idea of TO TI HN...
Ferenczi, Szabolcs
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Aug 21, 2001 8:11 am
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You must remember Samuel Johnson's remark, "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Well, - beside the...
Edward Little
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Sep 8, 2001 6:35 pm
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Dear listmembers, this is to inform you that my site on Plato and his dialogues, which used to be at http://phd.evansville.edu/plato.htm has now relocated in a...
Bernard SUZANNE
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Oct 24, 2001 8:39 am
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Echoes "Whether there is or is not one, it and the others are and are not and seem and do not seem all things in all ways in respect to themselves and to each...
One of the characterisics of the New Economy that has been noticed in the Wall Street Journal, if not elsewhere, is the growing effect of the internet upon...
Thank you, Robert. some of your statements I agree with; some, not. It is true that "many people persist in treating e-mail like an answering machine," and...
Two Essays on the Origins of Metaphysics has been published 31 January by iUniverse Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska. It summarizes my preparations and contributions...
(note: the following posted for the Rosenstock-Huessy list, includes references that might be of interest to the Plato and Aristotle lists, so it is referred...
... At times I am so overcome with the pleasure of reading a good book that I cannot forebear the pleasure of sharing it with others. When the book also is...
... The "Liar" Revisited A self-consciousness, that is any conscious human being, you, I, anyone, can affirm itself or deny itself. When John Jones says, " I...
... Scholars always like to trace the genealogies of ideas. They like to show that some writer or philosopher got this or that idea from someone else. This...
Edward Little
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I apologize for the improper margins on last msg. If anyone can tell me how to correct that, it will be appreciated....