Two things, first, the psychology is far more complex than the clear three part division makes it appear to be. How, for example, does the Symposium's...
A charming story but if this were to happen today you might have ended up in trouble with the administration. When I was in school this was not at all...
We really don't know how many people would have voted for him. The label "socialist" still scares a lot of people. I do think, however, that targeting...
A bit more on this. The third level of the divided line, if we are working out way up, is dianoia, rational thought. Reason functions by way of ratio,...
With regard to mysticism - there is a lot of different stuff called mysticism. If we regard mysticism as the experience of a reality that transcends o...
Wayfarer and I go way back. We often disagree, but not always. I consider him a friend. We have often recommended books and papers to each other. I kn...
The lowest level of the divided line is not transcended or abandoned. It is our abode, the city, the cave. In the Phaedo Socrates calls Forms hypothes...
The scholars who have influenced my work attend to the texts themselves, not to secular culture or metaphysical assumptions. They take seriously Socra...
I agree. These scholars are well versed in the centuries and millennia. In fact they often point to the centuries and millennia of commentary in order...
It is not at all idiosyncratic. There are many highly regarded scholars who support this view. Stanley Rosen and Seth Benardete have led a generation ...
I don't want to sidetrack the thread, but Descartes claim of life being divided into separate independent moments seems suspect to me, especially give...
But Sartre doesn't like it. Sartre references Descartes and the infinitesimal instant. The passage from Descartes is about that. Sartre says: In other...
Aporia means impasse, the opposite of a gateway. A major key to understanding the Republic is the making of images, including the image of a transcend...
Most schools have a policy prohibiting a relationship with a student that goes beyond coffee,but it happens. Since it is your teacher who must deal wi...
In the Third Meditation Descartes says : I take it that it is in response to this that Sartre says: If I am a thinking thing, and if thinking is not s...
I don't think the Socratic philosophers agree with this. Certainly it involves rational inquiry, but where do they affirm anything like an ideal conve...
At least in part because they too chose change. She did not do a good job of articulating how her administration would differ from his. At one point s...
But an examination of opinion is not an attempt to find a view from nowhere. It is an attempt to find the opinions that seems best. It is the view fro...
Neither does anyone else. For many the economy is a matter of what they can and cannot afford. For some there is real hardship and financial insecurit...
Tzeentch, you are clueless. What trick? Are Trump's choices to head government agencies with incompetent sycophants a politician's trick? Are his thre...
You don't seem to understand the metaphor. The pot is not yet boiling. At this point it may seem welcomingly warm. The pot is the USA. It is not about...
It is the assumption that I question. I think it has more to do with dissatisfaction with the economy, the way they believe the country is going, and ...
. What are the forces behind the movement today? Dissatisfaction and the desire for change play a role, but is authoritarianism the only option? Of co...
Free speech?! You are being gaslighted. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/media/right-wing-book-bans-accelerating/index.html A link to the PEN report. In...
According to Fox News: https://press.foxnews.com/2024/10/fox-news-channel-sees-second-highest-rated-october-in-network-history-during-an-election-year...
When it comes to the airwaves, this is factually wrong. The truth is just the opposite. Fox News is not and never has been grassroots. It was started ...
Relativist, I am sure I am not alone in applauding your efforts to bring truth to light, but NOS is a true Trump believer for whom facts and truth onl...
They would not be nearly so successful if not for Fox and more recently the proliferation of podcasts that cynically treat politics as a rule free, fa...
There is no mention of resurrection in the sermon. There is no mention of resurrection in Mark when the good news is announced. Then again, the term '...
Perhaps the law of Moses is not about personal salvation or adherence to its rules. The social and political aspect of Deuteronomy should not be overl...
If the Sermon on the Mount is accepted as an accurate reflection of Jesus' teaching then he does not break from the Torah: (Matthew 5:17-20) Paul, how...
The Forms do not come to be or pass away, but it is affirmed that they are. Unlike the Good they are all said to be. But since this thread is not on P...
Well thank you for mustering enough courage to address this point. Is it expecting too much of you to address what Mark says about the good news. Just...
Unfortunately, you lack to courage to address me and my questions to you directly. Instead you make broadside attacks against me lacking in substance....
There are a few points that I disagree with. Socratic philosophy is rooted in opinion. The examination of opinion does not mean the transcendence of o...
Well, so far he is not the president. Although it is within the powers of the office, his choice of people like Gaetz, Kennedy, and Musk, and threats ...
Yes, there are circumstances that can change how a statement is understood, so instead of making up stories look at the circumstances. Trump is about ...
Right. That is a major reason why Plato wrote dialogues. Another point is how radically different Socratic philosophy is from "the view from nowhere"....
The "trinity" of Socratic philosophy, the just, the beautiful, and the good guides the inquiry of all of Socratic philosophy, which includes Plato and...
I do not consider it a lie. I think the gospels are a combination of stories that were in circulation, changing somewhat in the telling, and inspirati...
What do you know of character of those women who have made accusations against him? Why not apply the same standard to them as you do to the accused? ...
If the general consensus does not take Mark into consideration then the general consensus as you rely on it needs revision. I think that part of the g...
What is at issue is the fate of the soul. Socrates' attempts to "charm away" Simmias' and Cebes' fear of death. The discussion has reached this point:...
What do you think this means? As has been said several times in this thread by different posters, there has never been an agreed upon belief in what r...
For many voters the lines have already been crossed and Trump will get us back on the right side. For others Trump crosses the line. With Trump the li...
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