... Try it now. ... Dear Chungchi, Human Dignity is at its best for Plato in his early ages. He enlightens himself through the Euthyphro for understanding...
Agreed, I'll keep this in mind when I get to the Thaetetus again. Eách perceives his needed observation for the personal truth, but the form of perceiving is...
I agree. A person has to be the human undecided of the personality to be gay (or if female, lesbian). So Plato is consequentially, historically, is out of...
Whenever someone asks about x in Plato, my first instinct is to wonder how x might be translated into Plato's Greek. What would be the Greek for "human...
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I suspect you're right about "human dignity" (although perhaps not about autonomy), and your worry about backwards projecting is a relevant one. But also,...
I'd like to thank the correspondence for the consciounable worth which I believe I now have no part in. Much in the same way many Obama supporters from West...
... wants the authority of the Spartan political system, but nonetheless an authority rationally grounded and having the argumentative power of the Athenian...
... Plato ... World." ... method=ISBN&book=1581129602 ... I endorse this one, but because it reveals the state of mind of justice minded Athenians (hey, New...
Kris, Yes, I'm just now starting to read Thaetetus. I wish more people would read, reflect, and ponder more these days. Rick ... the ... like ... seems ... ...
... and help our planet. Plus find hidden Yahoo! treasure ... The better explanation is for Mankind. After the famous qeued line-ups in the early eighties one...
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... through ... do ... their ... I know that Plato writes of the Socratic inquiry into the meaning of how the world could be objective to the consciousness of...
Dear Stephen: Have you ever come across Gilson's "metamorphosis of the City of God"? I used to a copy in French, and I can't read French. Chungchi Hsu ... ...
I gave my copy to a friend who can read French. Unfortunately, he is not interested in the topic. Can you guess what might be said in this book? It may be...
I'm puzzled about the translation of ousia ontôs ousa as "the being that really is" in Socrates' speech to Phaedrus: is this Being a Form? There is no talk of...
"Being-in-itself" - which I *would* identify with "The Good" and with "God" - YHWH. This is the ultimate form, in which all other forms come together as being...
... Republic, ... yet ... one ... the ... is ... Suggested comparitive manner of discoursing: the ABSCHATUUNG, certain substratifiable, vs. ANSHUUNG idealising...
There is perhaps a similar expression by Socrates in Republic 6: 485b: "tês ousias tês aei ousês" translated by Bloom as "the being that *is* always" : ...
Of course these empty definitional responses reveal nothing, as Thomas's response shows. Paul ... "God" - YHWH. ... implicit ... puzzled about the ... 08:01...
For Socrates the discourse was brought at 247c from the immortal Soul. Self-knowledge is knowledge in the Soul of the essence of this other worldly Nature. God...
Hi all, I appreciate anyone helping me in these issues. 1- About the parts of the soul, as I know there is a difference between Plato and Aristotle in which P....
... between Plato and Aristotle in which P. believes it in most of his conversations and A. uses "function" instead of "parts". But in many books when...
... between Plato and Aristotle in which P. believes it in most of his conversations and A. uses "function" instead of "parts". But in many books when...
Thanks Kris, of your posts. It is right that psychology has been reduced to philosophy, although understanding Plato's psychology as has been presented in...
Hi, just wondering about your use of the word "rational", which would refer to logos I presume. The desiring part of the soul, can it not be in contradiction...
Thank you Thomas, Rational as I understand is to refer both the real part of existence which is higher part of cosmos and the important part of the soul which...
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