METHOD In the course of these discussions of mind and brain, and of their respective roles, I have often mentioned modern studies of neurology and brain...
Edward Little
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Feb 1, 2004 4:05 pm
512
John Gallagher: The Iliad, the hieroglyphs of Egypt, the Monumentum Ancyranum, Tahafut-al-Tahafut, Chansons de Gestes, Shakespeare, the Treaty of Ghent,...
Edward Little
elittle@...
Feb 7, 2004 4:02 pm
513
ad Prm. 130d: With reference to things such as hair, mud, dirt and the like, Socrates says he is afraid "it would be quite bizarre to believe there is any...
Wojciech Wciórka
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Feb 16, 2004 7:42 pm
514
WW: You ask a good question. If anyone else wishes to join us in parsing this line, they will be welcome. I am not content with Fowler's or Allen's...
Edward Little
elittle@...
Feb 18, 2004 9:11 pm
515
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... A CAMBRIDGE SCHOLAR Edward Benson, the British author, in a delightful book, As We Were, London, 1930 and 1985 (pages 133-37) includes this portrait of...
... THOUGHTS ON ABSTRACTION Some things are obvious when we think about them, but we hardly ever think about them. Arithmetic in primary school is our first...
... CONTINUED THOUGHTS ON ABSTRACTION The connection between Parmenides and Plato is that Parmenides' Being and One were prototypes of Plato's Forms. But what...
... THE IDEAS AFTER PLATO'S DEPARTURE "The Phaedo was taken by those who followed Plato as THE theory of Plato, par excellence. Aristotle could not stop with...
... THE IDEAS AFTER PLATO'S DEPARTURE "The Phaedo was taken by those who followed Plato as THE theory of Plato, par excellence. Aristotle could not stop with...
... THE IDEAS AFTER PLATO, cont. Did you ever wonder why metaphysics is such a slippery topic? In our last post we said that the sources tell us that...
... IDEAS, cont. It is the ambiguities, then, that make metaphysics such a difficult thing. Plato made this clear in his Parmenides stating eight hypotheses...
... IDEAS, cont. It is the ambiguities, then, that make metaphysics such a difficult thing. Plato made this clear in his Parmenides stating eight hypotheses...
... IDEAS, cont. It is the ambiguities, then, that make metaphysics such a difficult thing. Plato made this clear in his Parmenides stating eight hypotheses...
My posts have been going out to the lists, except that they are not returned to me here at <elittle@...>. Why this is I do not know. Evidently this address...
... [snip for space] ... [snip for space] The problem that I see is that you are referring to the ideas in the conventional theory of ideas, i.e., that there...
... IDEAS, once more "Those other claims are evasions or excuses for our difficulty in understanding them" (last post). That's strong language, but ask...
... A PROTREPTIC If it is the case that we have failed to understand the Parmenides and the Metaphysics, and that we have been reading them second hand, what...
... THE PROTREPTIC, cont. Here are a few more tips for the new student of Attic Greek, to go with those suggested in my last post: No one ever warned me about...
... I have been indulging my curiosity about "the father of medicine," Hippocrates. There seems to be relatively little cultivation of his works, mainly by...
Metaphysics was a Greek specialty. It is the most purely noetic (i.e., intellectual) pursuit, just what they were best at. It began with Parmenides almost...
Edward Little
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Jul 8, 2004 6:57 pm
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WHEN A METAPHYSICIAN TURNS TO POLITICS What are we to make of Plato's Laws? They are about the last of his dialogues that anyone reads, and they are the...
Edward Little
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Jul 16, 2004 7:14 pm
539
METAPHYSICS AND POLITICS, cont. Plato as a metaphysician was a success. As a political scientist he left something to be desired. Oh, there are details in the...
Edward Little
elittle@...
Jul 21, 2004 7:39 pm
540
RETRACTIONS Do we do wrong to Plato when we read the Republic and the Laws the way we do? Should we continue to read the Republic as an ideal state, a utopia?...
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