I do not know whether I will succeed in laying this msg on Yahoogroups from here in California. I was having nothing but trouble last Spring when trying to do...
... THE OLD ACADEMY, 347-274 B.C. I am reading John Dillon's new book, The Heirs of Plato, John Dillon is one of our most important scholars in the field of...
Cristopher, yours is a good question, but it prompts some counter-questions on my part. "Isn't," you ask. "the thrust of the 'criticism' against Aristoteles ...
... [snip] ... I, by no means am an expert on Aristoteles, so I won't pretend to speak with any authority on this subject. But, from what I have read,...
Chris, I would hesitate to dispute anyone's "take" on Aristotle, but for my part am not disturbed by any evidence of such an assumption as you suggest. There...
... Let us consider an interesting "scenario." Suppose that the people of the United States, following the appropriate procedures specified in the Federal...
Dear Christopher I can't quite figure out what you mean when you say that Aristotle is "a wee bit too linear". If you have a moment, could you explain it in...
... wee ... Of course Mr. Planeaux is dead wrong. Aristotle is not linear at all, but spherical. Not only is he spherical, but the unmoved moved mover has a ...
... To which Icastes <icastes@o...> added ... I have not and do not comment on Aristoteles' philosophia, as I am not (and do not pretend to be) an expert on...
Some of you may have noticed last June the announcement of a conference at the Unidveridad do Algarve in Faro, Portugal, on Antithesis in Antiquity. Knowing my...
... APPLIED METAPHYSICS Looking over some of the msgs I have posted here over recent time it is evident that I have rattled on and on without restraint. What...
... CONTEXT - PREHISTORY The historical context of the accomplishments of Parmenides and Plato and Aristotle and their contemporaries, continues to hold my...
... CONTEXT - PREHISTORY, cont. The reason that I picked that quotation from Jean Auel's novel, hardly a scientific source, was that it is so well written. It...
... PARMENIDES' PROEM, THE FIRST FRAGMENT Parmenides was stunned. Read this proem slowly and carefully. If you will read it in the Greek you will have to read...
... PARMENIDES' FIRST FRAGMENT, cont. This was a "Eureka" moment without the "Eureka." It suggests to me that Parmenides was surprised. Yet his invocation of...
Dear Mr. Little, When Parmenides says abstraction how does he say it? Respectfully, J Keyser ... From: Edward Little [mailto:elittle@...] Sent: Sunday,...
He doesn't. Abstraction" is strictly OUR word for what he was doing. Of course he had no such word or idea. Plato had the idea and he used the words, idea and...
Jkeyser, Perhaps I shold have thought a bit longer about just what you were asking. One might answer that the "how" of "how he says abstraction" is that he...
... Over and over again, perhaps for some of you to the point of excess, I have stressed here the equivalence of ancient Greek metaphysics with the questions...
... "Neoplatonism Inside Out" In the last post (November 22) I called modern research in the mind/body problem "neoplatonism inside out." I described...
... Again, in November, we have had a number of newcomers join these lists; over 25, the Plato- Parmenides list; about 150, the Aristotle-Met list. You are all...
... Terrence W. Deacon is a professor at Boston University and Harvard Medical School, who is known for his research in neuroscience and evolutionary...
... Terrence W. Deacon, The Symbolic Species. The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain, NY, W. W. Norton, 1997. This is not an easy read, although it is an...
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