Hello Thomas, Having just returned from Greece, I would like to pick up on some issues at the end of our last exchange. ... von George Gregory ... Republic...
Hi Gregory, hope you had a nice time in Greece, I was in India quite another philosophical world... ... Well it is Adeimantus who first voices the protest, and...
or: Another possible explanation of Glaucon's and Adeimantus' quasi complete acquiescing from book 5 and on, could be that Plato was writing a pure utopia,...
Hello Thomas, I refer also here to your more recent remarks of this ... Adeimantus' ... be that ... based on ... construction, ... co-ed gym. ... century BC ...
... Let me here assert what I believe anyone will have to concede is visible and audible from this cited section of text, if one will but look and listen:...
Hello Thomas, It might be useful for your further pondering if I make a few brief remarks on your ideas here. ... that ... prepositions are ... Good. How are...
Hello all and sundry, It being Friday afternoon and having just completed a piece of paid work, I thought I might take the occasion to muse a little about the...
Hi George, I wanted to think about your idea that if, from book 5 and on, Glaucon's and Adeimantus' roles less decisive (even if their different characters are...
On the nakedness of male and female gymnasts, I recall that another well-known book refers to nakedness, and how man and woman became conscious of it, or...
Hello Thomas. ... von Thomas ... Republic possible? 449b ... 5 and ... I never said that their roles are less decisive, you have said so. (even if ... than I) ...
Hi Thomas, and George. Thomas, in regards to several suggestions by George as to the value of considering the literary aspect of a Plato work, I'm interested ...
... Hi George, I have some trouble with this idealistic vision of democracy as non-violent. It was after all a democratic Athenian court that sentenced...
Hello Thomas, I am still working on the "seam" between bk IV and V, and have been preparing something new in that connection which I can probably send out...
Hi George, 1) You wrote - "the reason why he (Polemarchus) wanted to stop Socrates' return with Glaucon is a wonderfully intricate issue".. Without thinking...
... Socrates' return with Glaucon is a wonderfully intricate issue".. Without thinking much about it, I have always assumed that Polemarchus' action was just...
Hello Michael, As concerns Polemarchus' reasons for wanting to stop Socrates, Andrew's message just came in, and he suggests looking at messages back at the...
... Hmm, close guess! Professionally I'm a medical doctor:-) ... That was Shorey's translation form Perseus, it can simply mean to cause terror, great fear. ...
Thanks, George. I for one "vote" for a return to the beginning. I wonder how many are still around from that time. George Gregory <2903-425@...> wrote:...
... I guess you mean "...Plato builds the story he puts in his Socrates' mouth deliberately with many puzzles..." Yours, Bernard Bernard F. SUZANNE...
Bernard SUZANNE
bernard.suzanne@...
Sep 14, 2007 7:59 pm
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Hello Bernard, Good to hear from you and to see your signal that you are here among the old bones who debated so many years ago. ... von Bernard SUZANNE ... ...
Hello All and Sundry, The mini-remark that has been the bone of contention here recently, that was then the focus of collective attention of Socrates'...
Hi George, Thanks for the wonderful mini-essay. Regarding the translation at 427d1-2 *your city*, which you say Bloom has correctly translated, is the same...
Concerning possibilities, I wonder, George, if it is at all possible that you could present a concise summary (either at the beginning or at the end of your...
on 9/15/07 12:59 PM, michael howard at jemgroup@... wrote: Hi George, Thanks for the wonderful mini-essay. Regarding the translation at 427d1-2 *your...
Thomas H. Chance
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Sep 16, 2007 2:05 am
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... A)TU/ZW comes awfully close -- as does FOBERO/J. Probably one of the strongest examples of "terrorism" during the time of Sokrates would be the mutilation...
... Aren't there 9 narrated dialogues: By Socrates: Protagoras (but direct prologue), Charmides, Lysis, Euthydemus, Republic By Apollodurus telling a story...
Thanks for the correction - although I'm not sure I meant "framed" to be synonymous with "narrated." But neither am I sure there's any significant difference....
Hi there, Frank, Good to hear from you. ... at all ... (either at ... far ... At this point, I am afraid that is too tall an order for me, but I'll be working...
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