Regards to All, Some while back I was looking for a word in a dictionary when I chanced upon an entry for "Queen Mab: A fairy queen, the midwife that delivers ...
Dear Mr. Taylor, Whatever access we may have to "a shared cultural heritage of Indo-European people" those who read them are rather well equipped to reflect...
... Very good. I recall somewhere in the Timaeus a passage about our understanding of Khora, Space, being as "in a dream" or something of the sort. I never...
A slow reading of Plato's Timaeus is just now getting started on my plato-timaeus list. If you would like to join it, you may subscribe by sending email to ...
Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism, by Steven B. Smith http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=NzE5MTRlZGY5YmY1MTUyOTZkYWY5NThmZGQ2NTNjOTU= ...
Plato and Xenophon were almost exact contemporaries and both had some connection with Socrates. Is there any historical information about any interaction...
Plato˘s Astrology (300pp, $24.00) This book begins with a unique, 3-part construction of each sign of the zodiac via prose, poetic glyph reduction, and...
Long ago Bill Oates wrote: =========================== From: "Bill Oates" <boates@...> To: <plato@yahoogroups.com> Subject: RE: [plato] The Theaetetus...
I advance two related question, expecting to meet someone interested in them: Do you think that non-contradiction principle does exist in Plato or not? Are we...
Hello Walther, 1. Does the principle of non-contradiction exist in Plato or not? What is the principle of non-contradiction? How do we apply a principle of...
First Question. If the non-contradiction principle, roughly speaking, is that inconsistency in speech should be avoided, and when present it shows that the...
Hello Gregory, 1. The NC exists in Rep, but in a form contested by some commentators to express the general form of PNC. Among his possible senses, I refer to...
Hello Walther, ... If I understand you right, your project (I am assuming you have one) seems promising to me and perhaps even akin to things I have worked on ...
1. Is not a difference between recognizing your self-contradiction as a consequence of a logical error and having the conscience that your opinion (or...
. Hello Gregory, · There is full justified your question about the possibility to state a general PNC. The modern logic leaves us two manners in which...
We are accustomed to never attribute Plato's opinion to Socrate's (or any other character) in the dialogues, since Plato never expressed his views in writing. ...
What support is there for the assumption that we would understand something Plato said straightforwardly, within the academy or otherwise? George Gregory ... ...
... The difference between a written text (a gong that keeps ringing long after it is struck but can never answer a question or explain itself) and the live...
Is it a correct translation of your remak to say, "Plato's texts are like a gong that keeps ringing but cannot answer a question of explain themselves. We are...
To George Gregory... Questions about authenticity? What Plato really thought? ... This type of question is resolved byconstant study of texts --- thus I...
Richard Hoehler
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Mar 31, 2007 8:58 pm
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Hello Richard, I guess punishments need not be painful, but, anyway, would it hurt that much to eat a bowl of ice cream? It has been a rather long time since...
Hello George: Thank you for your interest and reply, to questions on Aristocles the Plato!! I confess ignorance regarding the term "NOMOI." .. I am...
Richard Hoehler
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Apr 9, 2007 12:52 pm
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To thinking men and women... I saw a quotation from Heraclitus, which one of you quoted. To wit: "This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always...
Richard Hoehler
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Apr 15, 2007 5:52 pm
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Friends, Aristotle in Physics Book IV 209b (Hardie and Gaye trans.) says: "Plato of course, if we may digress, ought to tell us why the form and the numbers...
Dear Robert, Perhaps, Aristotle referres to a strong sense of participation. For him, if we state that the things participate to upper principles, we also have...
... Well, maybe. But my problem is that I cannot link what I read in Physics with any text in Timaeus. I have searched the texts I have available for the...
Might the word you are looking for be meteXonta, used in Rep. 5, 476d, to distinguish between beauty itself and *things that participate* in it? I'm with you...
LLOYD MITCHELL
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May 16, 2007 1:42 am
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Dear Robert, I deeply agree with your lack of confidence to Aristotle's interpretation of Plato. But this confidence cannot expelled the fact that Aristotle...
... Aristotle, Physics, IV, 209b33-210a2 (Aristote, Physique I-IV, texte établi et traduit par Henri CARTERON, Budé, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1926, 1973): ...
Bernard SUZANNE
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May 16, 2007 9:47 am
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Dear Mr. Taylor, Joe Sachs has the following: At 209b 10: For when the boundary and attributes of the sphere are taken away from it, there is left nothing...
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