Hello George, Sorry for the delay in replying. I have deliberately waited a few days, in the knowledge that you yourself have been away, but, prior to that, ...
Angela Cembrola
angela@...
Jul 12, 2001 6:11 pm
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Hello Angela, To continue..., and I, too, will snip a lot. [Angela] Socrates associates the eidetic look with his ability to reply to Thrasymachus, so, by the...
George Gregory
gregory@...
Jul 18, 2001 5:53 pm
786
Hello George, [Angela] ... [G.G.] ... Yes, this is quite true. My own difficulty, I think, comes down to the fact that I can accept that the eidetic vision and...
Angela Cembrola
angela@...
Jul 22, 2001 6:49 pm
787
Hello All. Quiet Summer. I am forwarding these questions to the list for two reasons: 1) it lies a bit outside my own interests in Platon and 2) perhaps it...
Mr. Christopher Plane...
cplaneau@...
Aug 17, 2001 11:25 pm
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... If Mr. Voigt is interested in Platonic mathematics I suggest he look into the history of mathematics discussion list, Historia Matematica, ...
Robert (Bob) E. Taylor
retaylor@...
Aug 18, 2001 9:35 am
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Lancelot R. Fletcher
lrf@...
Aug 19, 2001 2:44 pm
790
Mr. Voigt might wish to read Ernest G. McClain's "The Pythagorean Plato: Prelude to the Song Itself". McClain shows the deep-seated role that music and...
desultory_observer
desultory_observer@...
Aug 22, 2001 9:41 pm
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The continuing centrality of THE question in the Republic (What is justice?) has sbeen neatly demonstrated in recent days by the Irish Poet and Nobel laureate...
Bernie Clarke
alamazonbc@...
Aug 30, 2001 12:10 am
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Thanks for the tip but I already know Mr. McClain's books (almost by heart). Unfortunately his work has not been taken seriously by the academic community, so...
R. Voigt
rv@...
Sep 10, 2001 4:13 am
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Hello Politeans Not sure if there would be any interest, but I would like to pursue some of the themes present in the discussion of the types of people ...
archietass@...
Sep 22, 2001 5:54 am
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In response to Archie's rabble-rousing: some random observations on truth and lie in the Republic. It's a theme that goes all the way through, in some highly...
Lloyd Mitchell
RMITCHELL@...
Sep 22, 2001 2:40 pm
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In the context of justice, which Socrates would say is an abstraction beyond any exact definition, we address persons as actors. The actor may be accused of an...
Omar Rumi
sesame@...
Sep 23, 2001 10:17 am
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In the context of justice, which Socrates would say is an abstraction beyond any exact definition, we address persons as actors. The actor may be accused of an...
Omar Rumi
sesame@...
Sep 23, 2001 10:24 am
797
In the context of justice, which Socrates would say is an abstraction beyond any exact definition, we address persons as actors. The actor may be accused of an...
Omar Rumi
sesame@...
Sep 23, 2001 10:27 am
798
In the context of justice, which Socrates would say is an abstraction beyond any exact definition, we address persons as actors. The actor may be accused of an...
Omar Rumi
sesame@...
Sep 23, 2001 10:33 am
799
... Snipping for the sake of brevity, but not forgetting the rest, it was Cephalus himself who claimed that "The possession of money contributes a great deal...
gregory@...
Sep 23, 2001 5:43 pm
800
Hi Omar ... While this is an interesting position, I am hopeful you can fill in the dots to join in the discussion of the noble lie. That is not meant to ask...
archie tass
archietass@...
Sep 24, 2001 2:52 pm
801
Hello Lloyd ... If the rabble that responds is Lloyd Mitchell, then I am delighted! ... Sokrates uses the term aletheian at 331c, as far as I can tell, this is...
archie tass
archietass@...
Sep 24, 2001 3:24 pm
802
I just noticed amongst several quotes from Winston Churchill in today's NYTimes: "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a ...
Williams, Frank
Frank.Williams@...
Sep 24, 2001 9:12 pm
803
Amongst several Winston Churchill quotes in the paper recently was: "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of...
Williams, Frank
Frank.Williams@...
Sep 24, 2001 9:12 pm
804
Hi George, Lloyd and Archie Perhaps one might push this line a little further. ... We have mapped a two part analysis of Rich/Poor and Just/Injust and then ...
b oates
OATESBILL1@...
Sep 24, 2001 9:16 pm
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Sorry for the multiplicity of emails ... some bug some where. Archie invites me to join the discussion which attempts an understanding of the "noble lie." I...
Omar Rumi
sesame@...
Sep 25, 2001 1:14 pm
806
Hello George ... I had not considered the qualification before which of course might refer to many sorts of conditions and constraints: not the least of which...
archie tass
archietass@...
Sep 25, 2001 1:40 pm
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Hi Bill ... Just/Injust and then sort people into our ... bifurcation) There seem to be many categories under consideration. Prior to this Sokrates asks...
archie tass
archietass@...
Sep 26, 2001 12:18 pm
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Hi Archie, ... "Not the least of which..." -- chuckle, chuckle. Seriously (--:) ), as some know from previous discussions, I am something of a "radical" about...
gregory@...
Sep 28, 2001 4:17 pm
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Hello Omar, ... I'd suggest that you are near the mark here, and also near Plato. To recall: didn't Archie pose the question by way of asking what the...
gregory@...
Sep 28, 2001 4:17 pm
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Hi Bill, ... Hmmm. -- That's complex, and I hesitate (oh, well) to grab at it, because it might not be too directly related to your combo-boxes. Back to that...
gregory@...
Sep 28, 2001 5:01 pm
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gregory@... wrote: << I am reminded of an article referred to by Bob Taylor on the Plato list, in which the remark fell that Socratic...