Valentinus

The tolerance for accepting other views is not without its own spiritual dimension. The vision of the world as a commons, greater than any particular ...

I think I understand the "the public/private split" Loy is presenting. What I question is the value of seeing that development as a religious and psyc...

I didn't mean to say Loy was writing a polemic against Protestants. I wanted to point toward how what we know as the "secular" had a life before the P...

As a child of the Protestant tradition, I wish to point out some elements that do not fit into this picture. Luther pointed to the Church selling tick...

He is more like Meletus in the Apology than Thrasymachus. When reviewing his posts, a view is revealed of a Socrates who he has passed out of the worl...

This condition is reflected in Aristotle's explanation for why there can be no science of accidental being: One way that war as an element of human li...

Tai Chi Chuan is good. Six Harmony Boxing. The Five Animals style. You will "feel the burn" if done vigorously, either fast or slow. Slow is more diff...

The "rational order of the cosmos" is a big question to deal with. That is not the only factor in proposing the world is integrated with our understan...

Just a young man confusing people he talked to, especially women. Comedy as remembered tragedy.

Understood. Thanks for the clarification.

Right. You will get back to me. Whatever.

I will let you work that out with your partner.

When you say "it's part of the much broader 'culture war' between scientific secularism and religious belief", do you include the rhetoric being used ...

The Bailly dictionary uses French terms not available to Plato. Referring to them to resolve the matter is pointless and bizarre. You still have not p...

Your challenge regarding the different forms the words took in the text and in the lexicon has been explained. We have moved on from debating the mean...

Your questions reveal a complete ignorance of how Ancient Greek works as a language. Only you can help you now.

Ever since I heard the Animals sing that, it has become the soundtrack of more of my life than was strictly necessary.

Greek has different endings and prefixes to show what part of speech the nouns, verbs, and prepositions,etcetera belong to. See this outline for clari...

Er, the word in question is Ancient Greek, not French. It feels really strange having to bring that to your attention. I was just talking about the wo...

I will have to ponder upon that. It at least can be observed that Socrates not knowing whether it is true or not is a different matter than misreprese...

The word ??????????? is a form of the verb ?????. The word is defined thusly in LSJ Middle Liddell: The word ???????? is defined by the same lexicon a...

As you say, there is no other language under discussion. I see no use of the word in Ancient Greek that is similar to how other languages use the word...

That resource uses Liddell and Scott for Ancient Greek. You have not provided an example of the use in Greek to support Lee's interpretation. I have n...

I cannot find a single entry in Liddell and Scott that even remotely supports Lee's statement. Are Liddell and Scott also "Straussians"? That means th...

Your account has a frothy fever reminiscent of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

In this case, we have the interpretation of the word by Socrates himself:

The problem of how to see the "unlimited" in a relationship with the "limited" is the central focus of Plotinus in the Enneads. The separations betwee...

Prove that claim, with examples to support the opinion. If you have any respect for Liddell and Scott, they are not going to help you with this interp...

If one needs to justify a belief, is it not then an opinion, comparable with other opinions? To accept something on the basis of faith is to trust as ...

My original contribution to the problem of vertical measurement has devolved into a horizontal dimension. Perhaps that is an edifying lesson on the pr...

We have some text that has survived until now. There are some historical accounts that have as well. I am trying to understand Plato, not speak for hi...

The correct length for social distancing?

You did not convey that impression. I meant to say that the "interpretation of the Platonic dialogues" is an engagement in metaphysics that you say ha...

It is essentially dyadic. The unit is established against something that is not a unit. The most trustworthy not unit will prevail.

The Parmenides quote does challenge the basis for a relativity you have described as the basis for the Modern perspective. So, it is commenting upon t...

I see that I will have to rent an RV to resolve these problems of actual size.

I was planning on just using my shoulder height. I have tried measuring things the other way but ran into spots of bother. Not everyone understands an...

When one goes to Las Vegas, one's size is doubled. The towers are the same size.

The text you quoted from me was a response to the work culture views you had linked to. My disagreement with the utility of the division is not based ...

There is a play on words here because the lie being discussed is about being born from the earth instead of from human parents. The ensuing discussion...

In regards to the subject of lies, noble or otherwise, Socrates does say this:

I figure the Parmenides dialogue argues that Gulley has the sequence backwards. At 133, the separation of the forms from our reality creates the large...

In regards to the "constitution of the world", the argument Plotinus makes against the Gnostics can fairly be applied to Christianity, as it has come ...

I figure we have read many of the same texts. The "Gnostic" language is different from the opposition against it. What is the best way to represent th...

I don't think Kierkegaard meant to distance himself from the problem of "inherited" sin and its relationship to the sins of a person might commit duri...

I work in a very task-oriented culture, to use the language of Forsyth. Both sets of management skills discussed in the articles are needed, however. ...

Plotinus was not only opposed but dedicated to the task of discrediting the Gnostics, root and branch. The following does not include important refere...

New projects are proposed and carried out on the assumption that the investors will get more out of the result than whatever is payed out to have it h...

Capital needs investment. The existing value is staked against a future result. Return on Investment is the basis of every Bank that records these wag...

Testing for IQ does reveal ability to perform well in the controlled environment of the test itself. Some people who are capable in this sense are als...