I fail to see on what basis you can do that when you never care to answer my questions. Plus your comments seem to be indistinguishable from @Fooloso4...
Correct. Personally, I think there is more to it and Kissinger is one of the links that connects certain US interests with China and Pakistan (in an o...
That was what I had heard on the news, that Erdogan offered to deploy Turkish troops at Kabul if the Taliban agreed. And Khan was offering to put Erdo...
1. Strauss' book is entitled "On Plato's Symposium". 2. The incident of Socrates praying to the Sun is discussed in Chapter 12, "Alcibiades", that dis...
Turkey has been aspiring to create a "Turkish world from the Adriatic to the Great Wall of China" since the 1990s and has already formed an alliance (...
That's great. However, it seems to contradict the claims of your alter ego: Socrates, in other words, is supposed to have died an "ignoramus". So, wha...
Certainly not the West. And that's where the problem is and has been for a very long time. There is a US-Pakistan-China connection that works against ...
Good try. Or, perhaps, not so good. From what I see, some claim that Socrates could never have contemplated metaphysical realities (1) because he had ...
Well, what you read there is diplomatic language. Of course Erdogan is not going to say openly what his intention is. But he's got troops in many coun...
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-08-11/turkey-still-keen-to-run-kabul-airport-despite-taliban-advances-officials-say Of course Erdogan ...
Correct. Erdogan is the Hitler and Stalin of the Mid East. He dreams of rebuilding the Ottoman Empire that included the Mid East, North Africa, and So...
That was exactly what I was thinking myself. "Jn-/gn-" is also cognate with the "kn-" of English "know" which comes from Proto-Indo-European via Germa...
Strauss is talking about Socrates. He says: Obviously, "cosmic God" for Socrates (and Plato). Strauss is discussing Plato's Symposium (that's what the...
Regardless of the West's mistakes, I think it is important not to ignore Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan. Pakistan Under Pressure as Taliban Advance in...
Regarding religious considerations, the core of the Platonic project is encapsulated in several statements in the dialogues such as the following from...
I totally agree with that. Nobody should claim that they have knowledge that they either don't have or is mere belief. But nor should they claim that ...
But what is the point in "pursuing ideas" if that pursuit leads to "aporia"? And, having read one dialogue that allegedly leaves the reader in a state...
Correct. This appears to go so far as to deny that in the Republic, for example, Socrates says that the Sun is one of the Gods (something that most Gr...
I think the issue may be described as psychological deficiency if not pathology. I can understand if some people have an aversion toward religion or s...
As a general principle, yes. However, when the materialists insist on denying that Plato makes antimaterialist statements in his dialogues, then it is...
Saying that an inquiry leads to aporia does not constitute proof that Plato's statements are not in the dialogue or that he preaches atheism, skeptici...
Really? What about statements like this one: If philosophical inquiry "leads to aporia," then what is the point in philosophical inquiry? And you are ...
Why would I need to defend what the text says? I think it is for the anti-Platonists to show that the text doesn't say what it says. But you can't do ...
Not at all. On the contrary, it seems like some people choose to deny Plato's statements and replace everything with spurious claims of "ignorance" an...
Well, personally, when I judge the ethical value of a particular action, I decide whether that action is "good" or "bad" on the basis of upbringing. T...
Well, maybe some people are in a perpetual state of puzzlement, which is why they seem so attached to the word "aporia". :smile: Personally, I prefer ...
I think it is perfectly possible to construct a moral system without religious beliefs. Upbringing, education, and a legal system would be quite adequ...
Those who think that concentration and contemplation requires "asceticism" seem to be as psychologically deficient as those who think that meditation ...
However, military service is not mandatory. And the USD trillions spent don't just disappear, they are going into someone's pockets. Plus, the problem...
1. Countries don't always deploy their military to achieve a solution. Sometimes they do it to test new weapons, train their troops, or boost their mi...
There are many forms of knowledge such as personal experience, conclusions we arrive at through reason, things we learn from others, etc. One may also...
Knowledge is what we experience and what we believe to be true. Anything else is opinion. And then there are lots of things that we do not know. So I ...
You are welcome. And you can have this for after dinner: :smile: People are sometimes surprised to hear that Platonism involves contemplation and medi...
You mean 1948 when the Marshall Plan was introduced in Germany? :smile: And you forget that the Americans, i.e., Rockefeller's people were in charge o...
Well, I don't think that a poor understanding of how global corporations operate is particularly helpful. The Rockefellers had a worldwide petroleum a...
The British and American Zones merged in 1947 and were joined by France in 1949. The Americans had the supreme military command as well as the money, ...
Well, of course foreigners have exploited existing local tensions, but have done so for their own reasons. And it does not mean they are not meddling....
I think it definitely helps to have well-off parents, doesn’t it? :smile: But it is important to look into why Francoism came to power in the first pl...
I believe my statement regarding "socialists and communists" referred to France, not the Labour Party: However, since you mention the Labour Party, it...
It all started with British India. First there were the Aligarh and Deobandi movements of the 1860's, then the All-India Muslim League, and the Caliph...
Well, I doubt very much that the West made a serious effort to build a proper Afghan military. Plus, no Afghan army can beat the Taliban - who is gett...
"Internally dissolve"? Surely not when the Taliban are an instrument of Pakistan intended to keep India and Russia out. And don't forget Iran's own ma...
Yes, our politicians like to talk about our achievements in Afghanistan like enabling millions of girls to go to school, but of course that's all out ...
Not that strange. China has been involved in Pakistan (where the Taliban have their bases) for many years and has done deals with the Taliban in the p...
You are not paying attention, are you? It was Stalin, not Putin. I was talking about the Marshall Plan and the ECSC that formed the basis of the EU. T...
Good point. One of the issues I have heard of is that Spanish schools tend to teach English spoken with a Spanish accent. I don't know how true that i...
Plato bridged the gap between the religion of the masses and the philosophy of the intellectual elite. This is what his theology does. It offers the l...
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