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And this article convinced you that the ancient Greeks, in general, believed Homer was divine?

Why do you think this?

Some are. Do you know any Palestinians?

'There was one who was great by virtue of his power, and one who was great by virtue of his hope, and one who was great by virtue of his love, but Abr...

Somebody never read Kierkegaard. :confused:

10,000 newly homeless.

Socrates didn't tend to care much about prudence. He expressed admiration for Sparta in the middle of a devastating war. He managed to irritate the cr...

That does not warrant you to equate Hamas with Palestinians. You know that. I was just asking if he objected to Israel's treatment of the Palestinians...

Hamas is just a section of the Palestinian population, so he could hate Hamas and regret Israel's attacks on the rest of the P's.

What did he think about the treatment of the Palestinians?

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I don't know what you mean by this. So?

Bob Dylan was a big fan of Woody Guthrie's. You can see it in the OP and in this song: Crickets are chirpin’, the water is high There’s a soft cotton ...

Didn't you advise against responding in the OP? The pictures are just decorations for your thread. Get a sense of aesthetics.

I just want to come back to this. The soul could be explained any which way. It's a blob of idea-stuff, whatever. A language community uses the word c...

Yep.

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It'll come. BTW, if the US was in Israel's shoes, they'd obliterate Hamas. Completely.

It's insanity. There's no point in trying to wade through it with reasonable principles about accepting damage. They're locked in. They need a cease f...

Your own feelings are all that matter to you. What's your assessment?

I'm starting to doubt your commitment to spinning this toward an Innocent Israel.

I actually said it twice, so that's $100.

I think they're doing pretty well. They ran Palestinians out to the west bank, where they responded by starting lemon farms. Israel diverted the water...

They're genocidal.

This is the Hiroshima question. We could knock back and throw ideas around. Nobody ever does what they themselves conceive to be evil. Bla bla bla. Th...

What's super clear to me is that human life means nothing to 180. He's basically a psychopath, though hopefully inactive. You know why Hamas started b...

I have a hard time believing that.

I meant they don't control the situation. Israel does.

It's just that they aren't in charge right now. If they were, it would be 'kill them! their lives mean nothing!' Meanwhile the real Palestinians are b...

By Fooloso4's principle Neoplatonism isn't idealism either. :joke: Whatever, let's move on.

Do you want to continue this here or start a different thread?

No controversy. The term picks out philosophers over a 1200 year span and multiple cultural settings.

Sure.

What?

I'm aware of that. I probably should have used Gnosticism as an example of the freedom we give ourselves in baptizing ideologies.

Yes. I'm going to just note that your objection comes with no support understandable to me and move on.

It really isn't. Look into it.

I'm trying to understand why that's significant to you. No one called Plotinus an early Neoplatonist at the time. We call him that for our own conveni...

That works.

In the Idealism article. My point was that his views can be contrasted to those of contemporary materialists like Democritus. If you don't want to cal...

Ok. The SEP says he was an idealist. Let's see if they got it wrong.

Is there some impending confusion we're trying to avoid?

It was 2400 years ago. Cut him some slack.

You could sell it on eBay.

Yes, it's ontological idealism.

And Persians.

The Philistines were probably related to the Mycenaeans.

Why do you say that? Democritus was his elder.

Plato was like the science of the day around 200 AD. Christianity absorbed it much as the Catholic Church gives pre-approval to what scientists come u...

Oh, I see. Previous understanding. :naughty: But yeah, that's why I was asking, I know you're a teacher and we're talking about inquiry.