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That what is thought of as moral is biologically encoded is at best a hypothesis and at worse an unsubstantiated assertion. In either case it is in ne...

As a strategy I agree, but I don't think this is what is going on. His legal problems began before he announced he would run. At that time there was a...

I'll leave that up to the moderators. I put it here because it is an election issue. But if they take up the larger issue of the extent and specifics ...

It is not unreasonable to think that there is some segment of voters who may be sways by what might be uncovered in trial. Given how close the electio...

No. What Trump says and does and what the Supreme Court says and does are not the same.

You could possibly mean: be (a part) of a whole. make up, form, compose found establish to be or be considered as something I do disagree, but gave yo...

What is at issue is the education of the guardians. It consists of gymnastics for the body, the proper kind of music to moderate their spiritedness, a...

What do you mean by constitute? The world is not made up of pictures. The world and pictures of it are not the same thing. Analogously, you and a pict...

I do not think it is a question of the value of truth but of the problem of certain political truths around the natural interest in what one's own ver...

Yes, but the "traditional" interpretation continues to change. Two quick examples of recent changes. There is now a greater awareness and serious atte...

Good point. It does seem likely that the trial will have concluded by then, but if the trial is not completed before the election then the results of ...

If Trump pardons himself the case against him will not proceed. If the case does not proceed the question of whether he has blanket immunity will not ...

Logic underlies both thought and the world. Logic is prior to, independent of, and the transcendental condition for them. The pictures do not compose ...

Yes. I agree. Although we might not agree as to the scope of what is at stake. quote="RogueAI;899432"]Well, there was some concern that the criminal l...

Elected officials are only part of the system. To not take any principle, rule, or law seriously goes much deeper. It matters. Things could be much wo...

If it gets to that point then we are in deeper trouble than we are now. We must be on guard against the contagion of nihilism.

Of course we can make statements about ethics and aesthetics, but we cannot compare them to the facts of the world in order to determine whether they ...

It doesn't. You make a distinction between the world as pictures in the mind and reality not being pictures in the mind. (4.021) What do you find in t...

I think it makes a very big difference. The system is set up so that there are checks and balances, including checks against the tyranny of the majori...

In case anyone too quickly concludes that my interpretation of Plato is an idiosyncratic distortion of the text, I happened upon this today while read...

Between the world as pictures in the mind and reality as not made up of pictures in our mind.

I don't think this distinction is correct. (1) All that is the case is not a picture in our mind. The world is not a picture of the world.

The business of the city, over and above that of the citizens, is the good of the whole. This is why the philosopher, contrary to his own interests, i...

We should try to avoid harming ourselves and others as we stumble around in semi-darkness. We can learn to avoid some stumbling blocks, but even in av...

There are different respects in which something can be the same. Plato was well aware that the politics of the soul and the politics of the city are n...

I think this is at the root of difference between Confucianism and Daoism.

I agree with him regarding comparative analysis. I think culture or practice is an essential part of our nature. Part of what it means to be social be...

This was not something to be addressed in a court of law. His way of life was his defense of his way of life. He identifies what he actually does as t...

Either way, one ought not use the same brush.

What I am saying it that the trail was not As to him being maligned. What is clear is that Aristophanes lumps Socrates with the sophists. Plato distan...

In my opinion, the attempt to establish and defend some set of moral principles that can universally guide human behavior is bound to fail. The demand...

Plato, who Midgley says: had, as is evident from the passages you quoted, a far more penetrating, encompassing, and public minded notion of marriage t...

There are different ways to represent an event. Neither of them is writing history in the modern sense. Aristotle tells us that: (Poetics 1451b) Plato...

Socrates did have a young child when he was put to death. Neither Plato nor Xenophon give us any indication of failing health mental or physical. I am...

I'll leave that up to the reader to decide. Opinions vary.

It may be that her reputation for being difficult is due entirely to Xenophon. I don't know why he might do this. With regard to the scene in Plato's ...

I think this should be looked at in light of Socrates' megalegoria, his "big talk". The Athenians intend to punish him, but in response he is in effec...

And, at least in the case of the Phaedo, unwanted.

It is not a name he makes up but one he plays off of. This was and remains a common practice. Perhaps, but it may be that it is a mistake to not read ...

Yes. Introduce a little doubt into there their doubtful thinking, that is, into what is doubtful about their doubting.

Looking at this again I need to revise what I said. Xenophon is making a little joke. The name Xanthippe means "yellow horse". Not to push this too fa...

I agree, but it is one battle I usually choose not to fight.

Yes, it is like that in some cases. In others it is transactional or a battlefield. As is the assumption that this needs to be pointed out.

Perhaps, but: 1) We are not that audience. We could read it as a quaint period piece, but if we are to evaluate it on its philosophical merits we migh...

There are a few threads on the forum that discuss hinges. As I understand them they are things that in the normal course of our lives are not called i...

I have been called worse, but I want to avoid getting entangled in such distinctions. I think Wittgenstein's notion of a hinge is right.

Well, she does not make the distinction, which is part of the problem with her misrepresentation of the history of philosophy. It tells us that Midgle...

It is, rather, that the assumption that there is this higher good shining through is our practices has been called into question. Imagined the existen...

I think that this kind of skepticism gets things backwards. It is not a matter of grounding the claim that there are men, but of providing grounds for...

I think it is a rhetorical strategy. After all, if he doubted that there are men in the world why bother writing and publishing? As I see it, he begin...