To the iternet colloquy: I wish to thank you people for some help on Plato... When young, I decided to re-write Plato for the modern audience. It was planned...
RichardHoehler@...
Jun 2, 2003 4:31 am
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Greetings fellow readers: With Plato --- "When the rules of music change, the laws of the state change with them." Therefore: Is (Baroque) styled...
RichardHoehler@...
Jun 5, 2003 11:35 pm
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Dear Group members I am a recently joint member of this group and I will be happy to communicate with you. I am from Iran, and I am lving in Tehran. I am 32...
After finishing the Republic (it took nearly one year) I will be moving on to the Philebus. The basic e-texts on the web are Jowett's and Lamb-Perseus. I also...
Hi All, Would any of you like to do a thorough reading of Lysis? Thanks! Steve Noumenaut Studios Steve Jovanovic Director of Engineering Noumenaut Software ...
Hi Lee, I'm new to this mailing list so I'm not sure what the protocol is yet. How shall we proceed? Thanks! Steve [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Hi Steve, I don't know either. Can we just start the discussion on this list or will that annoy people who don't want to participate? Listmeister? Lee...
Lee D Perlman
lperlman@...
Jul 26, 2003 8:41 pm
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The Listmeister would be Lance, who keeps pretty busy. He will set up a separate list if there is a demand for it, but I sincerely doubt you will "annoy"...
Hi There, I think it makes great sense to set up a bunch of mailing lists-one for each dialogue that individuals are interested in studying-on demand. I'll...
[The dialogue starts very suddenly; we learn that Philebus (his name means: lover of young men) has just stated his view: "enjoyment and pleasure and delight,...
I found a stimulating review (from The New York Review of Books) written in 1985 by M.F. Burnyeat (England) of Strauss' "Studies in Platonic Political ...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the plato group. File : /The New York...
plato@yahoogroups.com
Jul 27, 2003 4:23 pm
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I have set up a separate plato-philebus group for this discussion. You may subscribe by going to http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/plato-philebus or by sending...
Thomas, The discussion of Burnyeat's New York Review article mostly belongs on my leo-strauss list, where I am more tolerant of polemics than on most of my...
... De : "Lancelot R. Fletcher" ... I tried reading Benardete's Republic commentary (Socrates' Second Sailing) after reading the Republic text, again and...
... "Utterly cryptic" is too strong, but I agree that, in reading Benardete, I too often feel frustrated that he did not give more consideration to helping the...
Well, I've said it before and I'll say it again. The dialogue form forces any reader to make a basic choice: either you take the dialogue form seriously and...
jacostopoulo@...
Jul 29, 2003 12:52 am
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... De : "Lancelot R. Fletcher" I don't think Benardete thought of himself as addressing "specialists". He commented once that one of the difficulties of the...
... I am curious to know what Michael Grant's evidence is for this assertion -- especially for the part about "the later ones." As far as I know, the interest...
... Burnyeat: "The leading characters in Strauss's writing are "the gentlemen" and "the philosopher." "The gentlemen" come, preferably, from patrician urban ...
After reading the first sections of the Philebus, it has turned out to be a much more difficult text than I had expected, specially on the Forms. So I think I...
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