... ANOTHER QUESTION Today's version of the oldtimers', of Parmenides', of Plato's and of Aristotle's investigations of estin, on, Ideas, Forms and form, is...
... ANOTHER QUESTION Today's version of the oldtimers', of Parmenides', of Plato's and of Aristotle's investigations of estin, on, Ideas, Forms and form, is...
... TWO KNOTTY PROBLEMS There are two particular knots in our readings of Parmenides and Plato that require our special attention. The first has to do with (1)...
... THE LARGE PICTURE These lists began as slow readings of a two ancient texts, Plato's Parmenides and Aristotle's Metaphysics. After that I branched out in a...
... LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU It cannot have escaped your notice that for a year or so I have been posting these commentaries on both the Parmenides and the...
I have a basic understanding of how Platonic writings were disseminated, lost, and found again to the West; but only a basic understanding at best. My...
... [...] ... [...] ... [...] ... Christopher, do you really mean to say that Kant and Whitehead didn't have access to the text of Plato's dialogues?!... ...
Bernard SUZANNE
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May 17, 2003 3:46 pm
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... Thank you, Michael, for your questions, and thank you, Christopher for your replies. Michael's questions came across to me as applying mainly to Plato's...
... No I did not. I had taken "primary sources" to be a bit more encompassing than simply Platon -- as my follow-up answer makes ... - Did Kant? Did...
Thank you all for your replies. I somehow suspected that this group would enjoy the question. I would like to follow-up on a couple of the items. First, as...
... Michael, After reading Canfora, you might also try Paul Moraux, Les listes anciennes des ouvrages d'Aristote, Louvain, Editions Universitaire, 1951, page...
... "Eruditi est hominis unum quodque ut ipsum est ita de eo fidem apere temptare" - Boethius I spoke last post about my belated wish that I had learned the...
... Michael raises a rather interesting point, when he asks, what did those various individuals whom he names (not to overlook any others) know about the...
I think I have been on this list for 5 years or so, and it may be my first message. Anyway, I was intrigued by Michael's questions about Whitehead. I have...
Hunter Hatfield
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May 24, 2003 1:55 am
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... Hunter, keep in mind that William James could have picked up an interest in "The One and the Many" from any number of ancient and medieval sources. It was...
I agree completely that there are many sources other than the Parmenides from which James might have become familiar with the topic of the One and the Many....
Hunter Hatfield
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May 25, 2003 9:54 pm
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... Hunter, thank you again. Your report on Wm. James is most interesting. When we think of the several possible sources where James might have met the one and...
... SOPHISTS About those Sophists, whom I commended to your attention in a recent post, I have a hunch that Protagoras especially deserves concentrated...
Good morning to all - I hope you had a good Memorial Day weekend. It was rainy up here in New England. Good to return to the office and find some discussion...
... Michael, thanks for posting the quote from Section 357 of Hegel's Science of Logic. It is very interesting, and certainly shows us that Hegel was...
... Here I come again, Michael, as promised yesterday, with an effort to parse the rest of that quote from Hegel. For what it's worth, which may not be much,...
Ed - your last post reflects my reading of the Hegel quote too. Like you, It would seem to me too that Hegel not only has read and cited the Parmenides, but...
Hi all - Ed is in Iowa and is having problems posting to the group. He has asked that I post this message for him. As I understand it, he can read messages...
Michael - you asked that, if Hegel understood the Parmenides, "why is this so rare?" Let me give you my answer under two headings: (1) his understanding of...
Edward Little
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Jun 16, 2003 3:04 pm
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This is about the way we think. It is about logic, about the various logics we use when we think. For they are several. This is about some of those several...
Edward Little
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Jun 18, 2003 1:37 pm
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EXAMPLE An example of a human problem important to many people is the stock market. Before we dismiss it as "the largest poker game in town," let us look at it...
Edward Little
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Jun 20, 2003 1:08 pm
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Return with me to Alchent's msg of 21 June 14:52:26, wherein he asked, "How are we to think about that which is no longer observed . . . In the outer world...
Edward Little
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Jun 30, 2003 1:33 pm
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... "Alchent," thank you. The context of my msg of 6/30 is Plato, Parmenides, Aristotle, and the rest of western tradition. This is not to gainsay Hindu,...
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