Hello everybody, while not an academic on the subject I am beginning to study philosophy (again - I attended two years at university but due to moving to...
Hi, merry Christmas to you all! I have just returned to the plato lists since I am now 'retired' in Thailand and can take up study of philosophy for myself and...
It has been a while since this group has been active, it seems. I thought maybe I could throw something out there for us to play with, especially since I'm...
Hello jwc X 2 + 25, ... Maybe it just needs a kick like yours to wake it up. I ... Have you posed these questions to earlier books in the dialogue? -- Your...
George Gregory
gregory@...
Feb 16, 2004 8:23 pm
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... Greetings! ... Hmm. We might have to. But I suppose for now, the particular problem that I'm curious about is the exile of the poets. ... I guess we...
One teeny additional possibility: the invitation at 607d for the defenders to "speak in prose on poetry's behalf." Which a good many folks, beginning with...
Says John C. - I guess we should define precisely what is meant by "face-value" and take it from there. And I'm guessing that the "face-value" approach to the...
Lloyd Mitchell
RMITCHELL@...
Feb 17, 2004 1:31 am
2361
... I don't think that's quite a fair comparison. For Socrates wasn't only a fictional character, whereas Ishmael, Quequeg and Ahab (as far as we know) had no...
John - Can you give me any reason for saying: And I might have problems with the comparison of the dialogues with the modern novel. -? It would seem to me that...
Lloyd Mitchell
RMITCHELL@...
Feb 17, 2004 3:08 am
2363
Thanks for your reply. :) ... It's one thing to say it is closer to one form than another; it's another to say because we can't equate the author's voice with...
Hello John, I was stealing time from work and wrote a little thing on a later message in the flurry you have unleashed, but I haven't seen it cycle through to...
I believe this email was inadvertently sent directly to me rather than the list. So I'll just forward it back into the mix: Originally posted by "George...
Thank you for your reply. Excellent points. :) ... Well, the simple answer is yes, but as you say... ... Good question. We might "guess" that they would ...
Thanks for your reply, George. ... I think there was some mix-up, but it should be back in the loop now. ... Hmmm. The general answer to that one may take us...
Hello John, Boiling things down... ... What, then, would be an adequate defense? They way I read it (read it, not interpret for now) is that the defense is...
Hello John, I see you cycled my earlier message onto the list: thank you. It is the first time that I replied to a yahoo message and it reached the person ...
Wow! these responses are getting big! Thank you. ... I really like this possibility, but I'm gonna have to insist that it's more interpretation than pure ...
Was hoping for some insight on this claim: "When all the discussion is complete in the Republic, we find that Thrasymachus is absolutely right. Whatever Plato...
I wonder, was Thrasymachus absolutely right about what in particular? Assuming I understand what is meant by the question in general, I ask, when is it unjust...
R.L. JOHNSON
romanphil@...
Mar 9, 2004 1:47 am
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Iım wondering first of all, if this group is still active or not. It looks to me as though the past post was in march 2004. Iıll wait for the answer before I...
... It looks ... recently ... Hi, I'm not totally sure who many people are actively using this group, but I do check now and again for messages. I've recently...
... A number of us "watch" this list while we concentrate our activities on other lists (eg.,phaedo). So if you have comments or questions, it's not unlikely...
... There is no dialogue from Plato named "The Trail and Death of Socrates"!...:>) This is the title often given by modern editors to a group of 3 or 4 ...
Bernard SUZANNE
bernard.suzanne@...
Dec 5, 2004 8:21 am
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Did I call it a dialogue? I don't see that written here. AND THERE CERTAINLY IS SUCH A THING AS A BOOK ENTITLED THE TRIAL AND DEATH OF SOCRATES. CONTAINS ...
I see how this could be mis-read. It is due to my BAD writing, my inability to articulate ideas. It is such a weakness of mine. What I was trying to say was...
... If you read carefully my post, you will see that I didn't say it didn't exist. Here is what I wrote: "There is no dialogue from Plato named "The Trail and...
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