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I think this is somewhat misleading. The demagogue taps into the dissatisfaction of some portion of society and promises to fix things. In part he doe...

Trump is not only part of the establishment, he is the Republican wing of the establishment. The Republican Party is Trump. Trump is the Republican Pa...

In the Phaedo he is putting some of Aesop's writings to verse. It is possible that he was working from memory from what he heard from others reading A...

I will defer to Joe Sachs, a leading scholar and translator of Aristotle: ("Three Little Words") What Aristotle says in the passage cited from Nicomac...

It is not at all clear that Bernie would have won. He is a "socialist" and this scares lots of voters. To them the qualification 'democratic' socialis...

Thank for that. A powerful, factual based ad. I don't know how effective it would be today. The Trumpsters just don't care. They believe he is their s...

This seems so obvious that should not need to be said ... but evidently and unfortunately it does.

The whole of nature and each organism in the hierarchical order of species works toward maintaining that order according to its nature. But it is not ...

Yes, I agree.

I don't know if she would be the best candidate in terms of electability or capability but she is certainly preferable to Orange Jesus.

I don't understand the shift from the problem private rule following to public rule following. I think the answer is one that you seem to reject - con...

This is contrary to Aristotle's understanding of nature. Since the thread is based on your claim that: you should not be avoiding what he says about n...

I do not think he is a skeptic with regard to rule following. There is, for example, a right way of following the rules of addition. If someone does n...

I think that he is trying to clear away conceptual misunderstanding that stand in the way of seeing. In the Tractatus seeing/showing is clearly distin...

I agree. It can be used as a blunt instrument or where it is an inappropriate instrument, but we can and should consider whether the expectations and ...

It may be more of a matter of not having yet coordinated a effective response than of not being able to, but that is not a prediction.

A quiet bloodless coup? Or a fundamental shift in our understanding of how the world works and our role in it? Or perhaps the movement of popular publ...

Perhaps, but as I said it is a matter of: The problem remains and he is a part of it. We cannot exclude what Wittgenstein said from the problems other...

On my reading, what Grayling is doing is creating problems that do not exist in Wittgenstein's work. He is, of course, not alone in the enterprise of ...

Although I was not included in your illustrious list I will comment anyway. I agree with him regarding "democracy by the polls", but the concern about...

What is it to be a member of this species? Is it to torture other species? By saying they do so to maintain their society implies that it is a means t...

I was referring to Nietzsche's claim about "real philosophers".

From page 12 of that thread:

Of course it's relevant! It is not a "glaring issue" that Aristotle is avoiding. The question of the ethics of a species that is by its nature unethic...

What is the relation between nature and the nature of a species? Can they be at odds?

What do we know of this imagined demon species? Why assume that they are men? Why assume that they are rational? See the following in reply to Bob Ros...

Aristotle's ethics is about the human good, not some imagined devil species.

In the Republic the education of the philosopher consists of gymnastics and music. That music is in large part appropriate stories. This education doe...

I mean the philosopher in the context of the education of the philosopher in the Republic. I think Nietzsche points in the right direction: He identif...

Thomas did give it unofficial authority but I don't think it is a new argument. I think she is complicit in the Trump run out the clock strategy. The ...

Is this something that just occurred to Cannon or was just brought to her attention or ...?

I hope Paine will not mind me jumping in. When you say: What is at the top of this top down hierarchy? Is the intelligible dependent on an intelligibl...

Some of the myths are probably Plato's own, but Socrates credits the ancients of different cultures. Some take themes, such as the afterlife and recol...

That is true. Socrates does question in order to challenge. In the interpretive tradition of the Midrash, questioning is a mode of understanding. This...

Some things are not everything. In that short list three things are referred to as divine. The behavior of the gods in the Greek pantheon seems to be ...

As I understand it, a Socratic philosopher is one who knows he does not know and thus devotes her life to inquiry. Some hold to the assumption that to...

Are they? I would think that Plotinus would agree with Socrates' criticism of the gods in Euthyphro. In the tradition of the Greek poets, the gods are...

The closing question relates to the opening question. Although it is not meant to close off but open up further consideration. What one expects from p...

As it moves toward something, for example, the quest for certainty or linguistic analysis, it moves away from something vital to philosophy, the exami...

I don't know. Help in what way? From the Republic:

I agree. I think they are mistaken however. Trump's own ends begin and end with Trump. They cannot control him. When their ends conflict with his ... ...

I do not recall the discussion but think it evident that if then he must have to be prepared to believe such things. Would he choose such a life if he...

But the good man may not be able to live the life of the gods, nor might he want to. What does that life look like? This: ? Surely there is more to th...

It looks like Trump's second term will be very different from his first. Although he denies it, the implementation of the game plan, Project 2025, wil...

We have our friend @"Wayfarer" to thank for bringing it to our attention. Speaking for myself, you are always welcome. Just leave your shoes at the do...

I often stress the idea of active reading, which is often met with blank stares. Yup. It is also a pleasure when you go back years later and find all ...

If you mean never attains transcendent knowledge then yes, that is what I am suggesting. But I won't insist upon it. They may think that some way or w...

And, in my opinion, the best philosophy changes the way you read. For reading can be active form of thinking.

The sound person is more than the ruling part of his soul. Consider the education of the guardians in the Republic: (376e) That is not the result, it ...

What are we to make of this? What is the life of the gods? Can we leave behind our human life and choose the life of the gods?