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The question that opens the discussion: asks what your goal might be, or, if philosophy is for you something that aims at a goal, and if so, can that ...

And yet, he does care. The answer to that question matters to him.

Yes, I agree. I don't think it is a one-way street though.

Which claim? The first: is not intended to be supported by the quote. The second one: is in response to the quote from the Phaedo. I don't think so: (...

And, I am sure, anathema to others. But thanks. I never object when someone says nice things about me, even if they are not true.

This is what is at issue in the trial of Socrates. Some think that the tension between philosophy and the city remains with us but others think the te...

We don't. Believing one does know when he does not is a problem. (Phaedo 97b-d) The question of what is best is inextricably linked to the question of...

There is a tendency to look beyond ourselves. No doubt Plato plays a role in promoting this tendency, but I think it was for Plato serious philosophic...

I think Wittgenstein is a Socratic. I linked to a thread a started on this. I have. Hadot also read and wrote on Wittgenstein.

Good point. What might the reformed cave look like? Would the philosophers do the very thing that Socrates was found guilty of? The foundations of the...

Is Trump immune from criminal charges for attempting to overturn the 2020 election? The following argument can be made: there was election fraud and a...

That is a fairly standard reading but not one held by everyone. David Bolotin in his "An Approach to Aristotle's Metaphysics" does not see it that way...

It is odd how much you talk about me and how little you talk to me. The thread is on Gerson and Platonism. The OP claims that there are core doctrines...

A wide net catches all kinds of fish.

I forgot that I wanted to comment. Schindler, says: The point I wanted to address is: I agree with the distinction between philosophy as a way of life...

Thank you. It spares me the tedious task of reminding him of what he has said.

My thread on the Phaedo is based on her translation, which I deliberately choose over others Brann was a student of Klein. Here are a few things she s...

If you see a false dichotomy it is of your own making. I have not claimed he held no position whatsoever. You have avoided addressing the problem of w...

I have started several threads on Plato . Both within those threads and via PM I have been told that they have led to an interest in Plato that had no...

Perhaps that is because you see the part as the whole. Socratic ignorance is not a terminus. It leads to the question of where do we go from here. How...

You may have read A Giving of Accounts. They were classmates at university and close friends. Apparently, they were asked about their agreements and d...

The question of what does and does not count as an official act is one that is not likely to be determined in the cases against Trump. The Court knows...

I too think Plato is a great philosopher. As to invisibility why does he not speak in his own name? Why does the Phaedo make a point of Plato's absenc...

This is funny because as I see it, the resentment of Strauss is based largely on his calling the dogmatic assumptions of the academic establishment in...

Have you read Strauss or just relying on ? What you call my and Strauss' "convoluted interpretation" is perhaps based on assumptions about how to read...

Good point. I would add that Socratic skepticism is being equated with other forms of skepticism

A bit more on the Seventh Letter: (343e) There is a difference between knowledge of a good thing and knowledge of the good itself. As much as humanly ...

I think that the administration is of central importance. We have a good picture of what the Trump administration this time around will look like. It ...

Do you mean this post? I do not read it as implying that he or anyone else has knowledge of: The three instruments by which knowledge is imparted are ...

He leaves it to the reader to decide whether he is a skeptic by way of their engagement is skeptical practice. That is to say, by way of doubt and inq...

What is at issue here is something else. @"Paine" points to the problem in the passage he quotes from the Sophist in the thread on Gerson and Platonis...

I think that with regard to phronesis knowledge of principles and causes is not sufficient. In so far as good judgment involves action it depends on g...

This concern was raised when Trump descended the golden escalator. He is a pathological liar. While it is true that all politicians lie, the extent of...

It is is a large problem. I think the best we can do is be aware of our own prejudices and assumptions and try not to impose them on writings that are...

Right. That is, after all, what thinking for yourself is about.

I agree, but think there is another related connection between dialectic and wisdom. The art of making and evaluating opinion. In a word, the art of t...

I have read Self-Reliance and a few other things that I do not recall at the moment. He is not to my taste. I have heard enough of my own thoughts and...

Thinking for yourself is not something that occurs in isolation. To the extent it does, we suffer from the isolation that comes from imagining we are ...

As I understand it, interpretation is about the ideas in play. It differs from theology, or at least to some forms of theology, in that it does not as...

I think this is tricky because some regard dialectic as a method of establishing the truth rather than as a search for the truth. My impression is tha...

Fair point. I think we can be in the situation of the prisoner who becomes unshackled but has not escaped the cave. We can be aware of the sources tha...

Perhaps there is no solution. For a thinker like Wittgenstein that may be the point! And where does that leave the reader? (CV 17) (CV 28) The act of ...

You asked: I asked what you mean by naturalism. In response you said: If by naturalism you mean the problems that have arise in the wake of European E...

If you do not wish to discuss and defend your opinions, which is standard philosophic practice, then just don't respond. The insult is uncalled for. I...

The title of the thread is "An Analysis of On Certainty". If you are trying to go beyond OC then you are no longer doing an analysis. In order to go b...

Instead of the all too common "read this book" tell me what you mean by naturalism and then I can say to what extent I think this accurately describes...

You overstate the case. There are different ways in which one might be said to be wise. Socrates acknowledges that the craftsman, doctor, and pilot ar...

Right. He is not a God. His wisdom is human wisdom.Above the entryway to the temple of Apollo are inscribed the words "know thyself". One way in which...

On the one hand: It should also be noted that the story of transcendent knowledge in the Republic and the story of knowledge when dead are not the sam...

When Socrates claims that he knows nothing noble and good (Apology 21d) I take this to mean he has no knowledge of the Forms (eidos).