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As depicted in the story, the options are listed as what the lottery offers. Some are left scrabbling for the last bits.

I recognize how the Aristotle view is a part of the conversation.

Presumably, the impetus of 'willing x makes it so' is either a tilt at a windmill or a collapse of all willing. The idea of a Supreme Being can play e...

:up: The level of detail in the composition blows my mind. I am going to be slow to respond to the other parts of the Er story because I am a slow rea...

Just wanted to say I respect C.D.C Reeve's translations. I prefer others for different reasons, but he is very consistent in his use of phrases.

The description of the spindle whorls is hard to visualize on the cosmological scale. I went searching for information that could give me a leg up fro...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lz9DLPMkJc

Thank you for the friendly response. I want to make it clear that I am not arguing on the basis of any authority. There are plenty of scholars who dis...

What I specifically challenge in the Taylor passage is this (emphasis mine): I read Book 5 as describing a city where the complete separation of publi...

I agree. Taylor treats the 'ideal' city as a kind of governance in the way being discussed in Book 8. The focus there is that particular kinds of peop...

Likewise, or 'back at you' as an American might say. I have been reading Republic Book 10 for the sake of the Fooloso4 thread and came across a positi...

Here in the U.S., some of our most important learning involves a two by four up the side of the head. It is not our best trait.

Book 10 concentrates on different ways a soul might get what is their due, in this life or afterwards. Plato placing tradition in continuum with previ...

I find the specificity of Socrates' letter to Homer interesting. Here is the continuation after your quote: This places Plato's effort in a continuum ...

There is plenty for the reader of today. I was mostly thinking how sure Dante sounded when claiming to know what the coming judgement of some of his c...

The effort you have put into placing me outside of the conversation does not address the distinctions that Aquinas also understood. The passage in que...

Your introduction of how well the eggs can be understood through time prompted me to think about how different a book the Inferno by Dante was for the...

The double standard involved with discussing cruelty is there. As a matter of public discourse, the language of complete vindication is different than...

Since you are compelled to undermine my reputation as a scholar, I will give the matter one last go: The original translation I quoted from CDC Reeve ...

The negative feedback from both sources tortured Edgar Allen Poe while inspiring him at the same time.

We will have to agree to disagree. In any case, I will say no more here.

You have the same resources I have on the site. Use them if you are genuinely curious about past interchanges.

I could do that sort of thing, given what you have said in the past. Your lack of interest in supporting any of that stuff for the sake of forcing me ...

That is not what I said. You have said the state is an illusion..

Your often repeated idea of the "state" is that it is a shared misconception rather that an existing thing. You are now asking that illusion to perfor...

How do these problems fit into your libertarian vibe that nothing can be done by the state?

It won't mean much to the Trump pooper scooper but here is an update: FEMA deploys to rough terrain after Helene as it faces criticism, fights misinfo...

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With the "not wanting to spare anybody from thinking", there is introduced an element which my teachers of Wittgenstein emphasized. The benefit from t...

The Trump team plays both sides of that: Trump FEMA Claim Debunked: Agency Not Running Out Of Money Because Of Migrants. In the report: Congress deter...

I had no idea. I must be using the wrong locker rooms.

Your reading overlooks the role of analogy as a response to what cannot be defined. The Greek of 1048a35 is: The ???? sharply separates the 'seeking t...

People have been trying to talk to you through your dog. Oh wait, I am getting a call from the other line.

Revealing comment.

So, you add it to the ledger of your disaffection. Trump said that while thinking he was alone with his interlocutor. It was never a slogan.

Do you include "grabbing by the pussy" in that category?

Are you past that? Do you condone Trump's behavior in that regard? Your brand of libertarian ethos does not engage with such questions on a personal l...

That portion of the story plays a part in the Republic.

It does not say that. It includes both terms in relation to each other. It goes out of its way to make that clear.

In Book 2, the trio begins sorting the poets into different baskets. Adeimantus says: “Fathers, when speaking to their sons and offering them advice, ...

I was referring to Aristotle's comments in Sophistical Refutations. The formulation of Plato in that case references statements influenced by Parmenid...

He ate the burger with bovine intensity. The pets are afraid. Hannibal putts on the green. Elephants traverse the Alps.

I disagree with your depiction of the Eleatics as sophists. Plato wrote the Sophist having a student of Parmenides overturning a critical tenet of his...

So, is that to say my version of the story is an error?

Narcissus was rapt. Turns out he was a genius. Empty subway car.

As a production of written text, the results point to a detachment from speech. The compilation of generic explanations was long vapid filler includin...

I am not here, this isn't happening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W6HhdqA95w

All humans fall short. Their feet became a unit. Some ways peter out. So, I rest in the valley, A battle rages nearby.

For Aristotle, moving away from the idea of 'participating' in forms involves the particular individual coming into being as an event of ousia that th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4zfJxGSl-w