The fact that Plato does not use the notion "theory of forms" means there is no theory. Both Aristotle and Plato used "idea" and other formulations is very...
From Carl Sandburg's biography of Abraham Lincoln, volume IV, page 80: "Lincoln leaned across the table and shot out an arm and pointed a long finger, 'Mr....
Dear List Members: For some reason, George Gregory has not been able to post the following message. So I am doing it for him. Best regards, Kalev Pehme For the...
In my opinion, the objections are not valid enough to either refute or prove forms itself but there are some good examples like 131b, day example. It resembles...
An abstraction doth not make a "form". Yes, I can make up abstractions, but that doesn't mean that they exist. Let's take a more interesting problem: The...
http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/Plato%20And%20The%20Theory%20Of%20Forms.htm#I.%20Theory%20of%20Forms Ontology of Forms. Most of the above ways of...
Judy Seems to me to be a long stretch between a character in plato's dialogue using the term idea and saying plato has any theories far less a theory of forms....
For the sake of super-correctness and incontestability, Gail Fine ("On Ideas") defines what she means when she says Plato has a theory of forms: the word...
Kalev et al Although Thrasymachus is enamored with the eidos of the ruler which he has never seen, somehow his theory crumbles under Sokratic questioning. ...
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=41400 Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Thomas Taylor steve ... From: Edward...
Dear Kalev, My apologies for seeming to drop my end of the exchange: antibiotics have just worn off enough for me to see straight. I still can't speak audibly...
A slow reading of Plato's Timaeus is just now getting started on my plato-timaeus list. If you would like to join it, you may subscribe by sending email to ...
What are we to make of Plato's Parmenides? My candid impression is that we have all been wrong in the way we have approached this dialogue throughout all time....
In the course of moving, this past Winter and Spring, I ran across a binder of old papers that I wrote at least twenty five years ago. The cover bears the...
If we look back at the twentieth century as a whole, what - would we say - characterizes it? Prominently the occurrence of two huge world wide organized...
Aristotle's Peri psuchEs is the first extended treatise on psychology. This title is usually translated "On the Soul," but that is a misnomer. "Soul" carries...
More on the DaimOnion and the subconscious "Why is the subconsious useful?" Why does our conscious mind "interfere with our thoughts"? Our thoughts are slaves...
Dear Edward, Thank you for sending me your paper, which arrived this week. I look forward to reading it. I think very highly of Kipling, so it's nice to meet...
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Recently I was looking t the archives of these two lists for about ten years ago, curious to see if what I had to say at that time still seemed any good. What...
A PROLEGOMENA TO A REVIEW OF ARISTOTLE'S METAPHYSICS The world has two aspects. One we touch, see, hear, etc. The other we imagine or think about. We call the...
METAPHYSICS, A BRIEF REVIEW Aristotle's "Metaphysics" is a long and a complex treatise. When we read it together on this list sponsored by Lance Fletcher, in...
My apologies that some of the margins, especially of the outlines, got garbled in the recent transmission. Their correct placement should be fairly obvious to...
Hi Edward, I was just discussing this idea with someone on the esoteric gospel list. It seems to be a clue to the nature of being. Steve Learnard Sh (300)...
I just received the following notice of Ed Little's death from his daughter Marcia Little. I am sure that all the members of the plato-parmenides and...
I'm very sorry to learn of Ed Little's death. I exchanged public messages with him several times in this forum. He was always friendly and knowledgeable....
I should have written "the noteworthiness and the nobility of his effort are not" rather than "the noteworthiness and the nobility of his effort is not." Ed...
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