Thought many of you would be interested in this, especially those over in Britain ... http://www.gla.ac.uk:443/newsdesk/gilmorehill/detail.cfm?id=505 ...
I thought everyone would be interested. csp ... From: Christopher Gill [mailto:C.J.Gill@...] Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 10:09 AM To: Planeaux,...
Could anyone please point me to scholarship concerning the pros and cons of the authenticity of Plato's authorship of Alcibiades 1? I understand the ...
It seems that the ancient Greeks had no term for what we call "the self", according to Charles Taylor in his book Sources of the Self: "Our modern notion of...
Please help me understand Plato's theory of love. 1) Plato said, "Love is the love of what is lovely." (Symp. 204 B). While that may sound tautological, there...
... [...] ... A few remarks on your question before addressinf the issue itself. I don't think Plato wrote his dialogues, including the Lysis, Symposium and ...
Bernard SUZANNE
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May 8, 2003 8:51 am
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Hi Bernard We meet again over similar territory. I once again wish to take issue with your theory of platonic dialogues. As much as anything I wish to clarify...
... I don't think we are that far away from one another. The problem is that I put the stress on those parts of my understanding of Plato's objectives where...
Bernard SUZANNE
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May 8, 2003 1:14 pm
1743
"Plato's definition of love in the Symposium"? It seems to me that there is a vitally important reason why the events of the Symposium are narrated to us...
Lloyd Mitchell
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May 8, 2003 1:15 pm
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Bernard, I agree, by and large, with your understanding of what Plato was attempting to do in the dialogues. But I have a question about your occasional...
Williams, Frank
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May 8, 2003 2:05 pm
1745
bernard ... So you think the difference between your reading and mine is on of emphasis and your overstating your case to show the difference between your view...
At 18:25 08/05/03 +0000, Bill Oates wrote: [...] ... OK. I agree that maybe "guess" was not the best of words (but don't forget English is not my native...
Bernard SUZANNE
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May 8, 2003 8:24 pm
1747
... They may have the same level of certainty FOR PLATO, and maybe for you too after thinking them over, but neither you nor him are able to translate this...
Bernard SUZANNE
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May 8, 2003 8:33 pm
1748
... He states that "it does not at all admit of verbal expression like other subjects'", but he doesn't claim that there is nothing that can be done with...
Bernard SUZANNE
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May 8, 2003 8:40 pm
1749
... Not treatises, roadmaps, travel guides!...:>) Yours, Bernard Bernard F. SUZANNE (bernard.suzanne@...) Plato and his dialogues:...
Bernard SUZANNE
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May 8, 2003 8:42 pm
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Attn. Since there seems to be some confusion and disagreement about what Plato wrote and how best to interpet and understand what Plato wrote, I have a simple...
Bernard, I agree, by and large, with your understanding of what Plato was attempting to do in the dialogues. But I have a question about your occasional...
Williams, Frank
Frank.Williams@...
May 9, 2003 1:13 am
1752
... and also Plato's live frequentation over twenty years ... I prefer "stimulus" ... That is the problem!....:>) ... That's true. The problem is this...
Bernard SUZANNE
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May 9, 2003 8:00 am
1753
bernard my concern is that there is no 'development path' in plato's letter but you claim there is one bill ...
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bernard ... Well that may be your point now previously it was that we can not have knowledge and to equate opinion with knowledge, perhaps with the exception ...
bernard ... understanding is the word i would use. i would not however thing that understanding is what the dictionary says it is. One would not understand an ...
... Several points there: 1) What Plato is talking about in the quoted section of the VIIth letter is NOT what he is dealing with in the dialogues, as he...
Bernard SUZANNE
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May 9, 2003 1:02 pm
1758
... My point always was and still is that the kind of "knowledge" Plato refers to in the quote from the VIIth letter you produced is not the same as the one we...
Bernard SUZANNE
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May 9, 2003 1:21 pm
1759
... Are you talking about the understanding of "understanding" or about the understanding of what Plato had in mind? If the former, I was not talking about an...
Bernard SUZANNE
bernard.suzanne@...
May 9, 2003 1:30 pm
1760
At 22:30 03/05/03 +0000, Derek Knox wrote: [...] ... Hello Derek, are you still around? After all, you are the one who started all this!... Anything to say?......
Bernard SUZANNE
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May 9, 2003 2:29 pm
1761
Bernard ... None of these support 'development path' do they? By which i mean each dialogue can be on its own. bill bill ...
Bernard ... The geometric knowledge conveyed to the slave is, I think, somewhat more complicated than you claim. I think that once the slave 'saw' the ...
... Oh! Sure! I know that my proposal on the structure of the dialogues is only an hypothesis which cannot be proven. But so is the HYPOTHESIS about...
Bernard SUZANNE
bernard.suzanne@...
May 9, 2003 5:15 pm
1764
I was travelling when this message was originally posted back in February, and after returning to Tbilisi I neglected to post it. Although the discussion...