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Are your goats still alive?

True. The science to do it was in place. It took funding to make it happen. And it means that going forward, vaccines will take months to make instead...

Dr O'Dowd from Space Time says that's probably not true, conservation of energy that is. It's a helpful idea for some kinds of analysis, but it's not ...

It's not whether you win or lose. It's how you play the game.

The thing is, science is never autonomous. A scientist has to make a living. So it's no accident that something helpful like vaccines came out if it. ...

Nice. :cool:

Always

Banking. Before we had money and banking, life tended to be relatively stagnant. Virtual money puts human life into overdrive

Like a circling eddy in a stream, yea. One idea would be that just as I reflect on events and my self is generated by that reflection, the tribe's liv...

In the OP, you gave science credit for: If science caused that stuff, science is causing global warming. The missing piece is that all of that and sci...

The use of hydrocarbon energy is leading to global warming, which wouldn't have happened without engineering, chemistry, physics, geology, etc. As I s...

Excellent. My summation (super tiny): Phaedo is a vehicle by which Plato presents antithesis to materialistic ideas that were developing at the time. ...

@"Apollodorus" So we have one vote for "can't give a summation" How would you package your view?

You're not able to sum up your view?

Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (Civil Rights Leader): Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipa...

So this would be my question: say your experiences are like texts. Do you read them while they're being laid down to paper? Or do you act unconsciousl...

So how would you sum up Phaedo in a few words (if you had to)?

What if self consciousness starts with memories? Recognition of the self comes from analyzing remembered events and assigning cause and effect. Someti...

Is empathy genetic?

Well I see you aren't going to bother defending science against accusations of climate change and nuclear weapons. T-clark gave the right answer. Scie...

There's nothing wrong with it. But your capacity for it will likely come back to your experiences, right? Or your level of emotional maturity. A non-e...

True. But would empathy help you navigate through an ethical dilemma? I think what you're saying is that you think people should be more empathetic.

Professional ethics is mostly about duty. You should have the courage to be a whistleblower. Don't take kickbacks. That sort of thing.

Climate science.

I scuba dived around them in the Florida keys?

Is it good for coral reefs? No, they'll be totally gone in a few thousand years, because of the same change you noted in the OP. Are you more importan...

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Could you explain?

I just did this continuing education class that covered the history of vaccines. The change in human life created by that little scientific biscuit is...

Are you inane? Never. Apparently mentally unsound? Usually.

I don't think so, but it's an interesting question: can you tell by looking at evolution if it's purposeful? In some cases organisms contribute to the...

Have you thought of just drawing out the significant ideas instead of providing your interpretation?

He was influenced by Neoplatonism. I think Hegel also came across a brand of it, but that'd be for some other thread. Anyway, which part of Phaedo rem...

The degree to which tidbits might be buried in what looks like offhand comments is very different issue to that of the dialogue's status as a play.

Of course. Have you read any books about Meister Eckhart?

If that's what it becomes for you, fine. The dialogue format was popular at the time. It's just the format Plato used. I don't see a spiritual message...

There's no comedy or tragedy because it's not a drama. There's no story arc.

I think you can use bungee cords to strap them in place.

The tragedy of the commons is used by neoliberals as an excuse for privatization. edit, oh I just noticed that's in the op

Playwrights were big celebrities back then. I don't know, probably best to just drop it, huh? There's more important stuff in the world. :grin:

BTW, Greeks, like others in the ancient world, were aware that great civilizations preceded them. They liked to think of themselves as descendants of ...

I guess a verbal flourish can be difficult to translate. I don't know what to say about that. :up:

Socrates is not being presented as believing Homer is divine. Do you understand that?

In some cases, your interpretation is just wrong. The bigger problem is that you seem to think there is one right interpretation. Think of Phaedo as f...

We might take it that Socrates is suggesting that divinity was at work in Homer. He's not suggesting that Homer is really divine. You specifically sta...

You just posted it. Who is the opponent he is addressing? We talked about this earlier (in regards to why it comes in handy to call Plato's approach i...

One cool thing about Plato is the way he presents the repeating theme of oppositions. It will come through in a dry logical argument, then it shows up...

One of the things one could do is analyze the argument that Homer affirms that the soul can be separated from the body. Who is Plato arguing with here...

Since you asked, quite frankly it indicates that you don't know much about the setting of the work. You're prone to jumping to odd conclusions, and th...

See pm. You're in conflict with one of the greatest classicists of the 20th Century.

Per Moses Finley, "No other poet, no literary figure in all history for that matter, occupied a place in the life of his people such as Homer's. He wa...