Hi Shane Mage These are Good examples and I think these myths and stories and metaphors should be separated from each other. Some are reported from ancient...
Hi R.E. Taylor I am glad of your response and good points on meaning about knowledge. But I don’t mean the content of our knowledge, which you have given an...
... That Plato sometimes uses myth as metaphor--as in the passage Robert cites from the Phaedrus, or in the Cave metaphor of the Republic-- should not obscure...
... Dear Ebrahim Mousavi, You ask an interesting question, whose answer depends on your meaning of knowledge. You do not mean, of course, the knowledge of...
Hi all; I am looking for Mythical Knowledge in Platonic and Neo-Platonic sources, and appreciate if you help me about the subject and the sources. We know...
Dear Plato Group Members, Marx's advance on the concept of Historical, or Diachronic, Dialectic, which was '''psycho-historically''' all but inconceivable for...
Dear i am not understanding following lines in Timaeus. "First of all, he took away one part of the whole [1], and then he separated a second part which was...
Thanks, Ray ... From: delv <delv@...> Subject: [plato] New Benardete book To: plato@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 5:53 PM This was...
Dear Plato Group Members, Three academic papers, by three different authors, each of whose content overlaps with that of the F.E.D. discoveries, have recently...
Dear Plato Group Members, INTRODUCTION. The post below implicitly raises the issue as to whether the "Set of All Sets" and the "Set Of All Objects" exhibit the...
or the question would be; this lecture by Plato on the Good with mathematics, etc, sound a lot like Socrate's in the Republic (the divided line etc..). Maybe...
Quite interesting is Aristoxenus's account of what Aristotle told him about the content of Plato's lectures on the Good. These were not in the form of Socratic...
Planeaux, Christopher S wrote: "Now, as to whether or not reading = performing I leave as another discussion altogether (we do have, nonetheless those two...
Hello Christopher, Thank you. -- So there was a "publication" outside the Academy, and Plato's dialogues were even sold. Good. How shall we deal with "lies,"...
... Themistios writes of a Korinthian farmer who, upon reading the *Gorgias*, abandoned his fields to become a follower of Platon as well as of a Axiothea who,...
... documents, ... Ryle in "Plato's ... among the ... for ... aural ... I don't know Ryle's reasoning. -- Perhaps you could elaborate a bit on it. I wouldn't...
... But what if the dialogues were presented as oral documents, to be read aloud at dramatic festivals (argued persuasively by Ryle in "Plato's Progress") as...
Stylometric evidence is not at all difficult to gainsay, because it is based on a set of basic assumptions concerning how to read Plato (or about how Plato is...
... I have no idea. Sounds intriguing. Why don't you check it out and let us know? Regards, Bob Robert Eldon Taylor philologos at mindspring dot com...
I tend to agree with 1-4, but there is stylometric evidence that is difficult to gainsay. The most persuasive for me is the avoidance of terminal hiatus. This...
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I know that some on this list have doubts about the early/middle/late ("developmental"/Vlastos) classification of Plato's dialogues (as I do), and have various...
Dear Bernard and Al, I seem to have stirred up some discussion in an otherwise quiescent group, so I will not humble myself _too_ much when I apologize for the...
... Quantum mechanics and special relativity are "theories", that is, models, representations, pictures of the "real world", NOT the real world itself! Each...
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