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There are several newer translations that are preferable to Shorey's. Wayfarer brought to my attention this new online translation of all the dialogue...

These is an important difference between someone thinking it sounds like an invasion and acting to secure the border in a way that courts have determi...

Much of what we find in Plato, including the ascent to a transcendent realm of Forms in the Republic is philosophical poetry. In the Phaedo, in order ...

At no point. The question of the interpretation of the law is to be left to the courts. Otherwise the law becomes whatever any citizen interprets it t...

I think all of our readings are by default modern. We cannot escape being modern. It is our cave. But my reading differs from that of others who are m...

Klein points out that Aristotle distinguishes between three kinds of number: arithmos eidetikos - idea numbers arithmos aisthetetos - sensible number ...

It should be quite apparent that for them the opinions of that time or any other time and place are not decisive. I do not affirm that it is true, but...

Does the number 7 come into being and pass away? If I remember correctly, you come down on the side of them as always existing and unchanging.

I think it ironic how often Socrates' claim of ignorance is ignored. As I read them both Plato and Aristotle are skeptics is the sense of knowing that...

What is erroneous is importing ideas about gravitational singularities and from Kant in the attempt to understand Plato. You might conclude that Plato...

I suspect this reflects the influence of Plato, but we should not conclude from what is in some way similar that they are the same. I think Tillich go...

Socrates makes the distinction between things that we say are just or beautiful or good and the just or beautiful or good itself. Without knowledge of...

I think it would have been more prudent for her not to get involved in this relationship at this time, but I agree with her that: Because Trump's acti...

You are right. My statement was qualified: This does not mean that persecution and censorship does not exist, but the ideas that philosophers in the p...

If there is a Form of the Good but we do not know what the Good is, what can we say about it that we know to be true? It is not that it is difficult t...

What topics or issues do you think should still be kept secret? Is there an inner circle today? Is the contemporary esoteric teachings to be found wit...

As did his favorite god. The god who philosophizes. Dionysus.

This begs the question of how logos is to be understood. I think it is safe to say that it is not instrumental reason.

One does it by the example of others and practice. In the Phaedrus Socrates says: (264c) Plato is telling us how to read him. His dialogues are like l...

In the past it was often necessary to keep certain things concealed to avoid persecution and censorship. That is no longer as much of a problem, but i...

Another way to put this is that the more capable we are of reasoning correctly, the more perfect and happy we are (Part V, "The Power of the Human Int...

This may be true of occult esoteric beliefs but there is a difference between hiding things from children and the idea of some hidden dimension of rea...

What Hume calls here philosophical and pernicious truths are similar to what Nietzsche calls deadly truths. Hume is saying that mankind prefers lies o...

The problem is, the term is used in various ways. For some it means something along the lines of occult revelation. Secret doctrines or hidden dimensi...

I don't follow. Just as we should not assume that nature acts for a purpose, we should not assume that nature acts out of a desire for freedom. As you...

Following up on the question of whether Trump will comply with Supreme Court decisions. It may seem improbable but THIS may the writing on the wall of...

In the appendix to proposition 36 Spinoza says: The assumption underlying this prejudice is that all natural things are like human beings in acting fo...

Machiavelli wrote: Some interesting work has been done on Machiavelli's influence on Spinoza. Melzer Francis Bacon’s essay On Simulation and Dissimula...

How much credence should we give to this supposition? Can a finite limited part know the infinite unlimited whole? What are we to make of the signific...

Then he will appeal to a higher authority - Donald J Trump. From a video on Truth Social he posted, "God Made Trump". The narrator begins: If they do ...

You are lost and I am not going to draw a map for you or make the connections from one post to the next.

A non sequitur. Why would you think or think that I think Trump will influence Biden's decision?

The whole thing is very peculiar. The Evangelicals have be seduced by power. Apparently, they do not think that the power of God is enough. Not ever t...

Perhaps he thinks they are the same. He says that he likes winners. If it is strong man against strong man he likes whoever he thinks is winning. Unle...

Nope. I don't know what will happen and do not know what if any role Trump will play. What I do know is that you have left out some key players that p...

You are talking about Trump as if he is someone with principles. He is isolationist only to the extent he thinks it benefits him. He has not taken a c...

One important thing that they have in common that helps to put this difference into perspective is that they do not regard philosophy as a set of topi...

If Biden's incentive is to win the election by waging war, the attempt to carry that plan out would be a cynical plot. Trump is anti anything that wil...

Biden, like the rest of us, can get things wrong. The claim that I am responding to, and it is not one that you made, is that Biben will go to war in ...

The fact is: Republicans in Congress are saying we should attack Iran while Biden is looking for a diplomatic solution. Please explain how this is a c...

Biden supporters, aka Republicans in Congress, are now saber rattling, calling for attacks on Iran. And yet, still easy enough to get it exactly wrong...

I am not sure what to make of this. Surely Nietzsche knew that Hesiod said: (Theogony 27) The suspicion is that in reporting what he claims the muses ...

Did Nietzsche find Heraclitus dogmatic and boring? Or Montaigne? Nietzsche said that Plato is boring, and at the same time that with regard to Plato h...

War is often divisive. Since Vietnam American wars have not united us. Just the opposite. One reason some cite for their support of Trump is that they...

What tends to get obscured in such speculation is the question of motive. There is an important difference between declaring war in response to the ac...

Oh, look - "radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq", directed by and/or supporting the election of Biden, attacked and killed...

In the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, Trump has single-handedly eliminated what up until that moment had been, according to the Cult of ...

You have not answered my questions. Here is another one: If the primary motivation is to eliminate Trump then why not simply eliminate him?

Are you claiming that if not for an election we would not go to war against Iran? Is what Iran and its allies doing of no consequence? This would only...

Do you maintain that you might or might not be, NotAristotle? That you might is quite different from not being either Aristotle or NotAristotle. For i...