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Can the natural world be understood when natural beings are reduced to something else? I think that this what @"Paine" is getting at.

Plato's Timaeus said: The problem, of course, is where to begin. For every natural beginning is there something that stands outside that beginning? Mu...

Perhaps this has already been discussed but it seems to that JTB is a case of the dog chasing its tail. That P is true is taken as a given, that it is...

There is a distinction between classical and modern natural rights theories. Fundamental to classical natural rights is duty and obligations to others...

I recently came across the term philosophunculist.

And inflate grades. And be prepared to be held responsible when students fail. And go along with the pretense that you are not dumbing things down.

I was going to ask: prove to whom? What would be the point of trying to prove it to yourself?

A distinction should be made between what we know, based on what we are told, and what Al knows or doesn't know. What he does not know is if his car h...

It is not that there is a categorical or unqualified interpretation but rather that problems with a particular interpretation can be identified. That ...

There are various forms of skepticism and it is misleading to conclude that Wittgenstein either accepts or rejects it. In On Certainty Wittgenstein ad...

At one time there was an attempt to construct an accurate picture of the historical Socrates. I don't know if anyone today is still at it. The problem...

In Plato's Second Letter he says that the Socrates in his dialogues is "a Socrates made young and beautiful". In other words,Plato does not give us a ...

I don't think Kripke understood Wittgenstein. He took PI 201 and ran with it. He thought it was a new form of philosophical skepticism. In response to...

Probably, but I don't know if it is still at issue. A play of images. How deep it goes and how pervasive it is is too often not recognized.

I think that this is on the right track. Although sophist became a term of condemnation, the term is derived from a cognate of sophia, that is, wisdom...

One issue that I find interesting is the relationship between reason and rhetoric. Socrates accuses the sophists of "making the weaker argument strong...

This is often the case. Prior to talking about something hidden he does say in the forward: and then adds: If those who understand are automatically s...

I have reached the opposite conclusion, but I think that the myths support the immortality of the soul. The arguments also appear to support it as wel...

When Wittgenstein says, as quoted above, that he has been frequently misunderstood, it is clear that there is something that he means, otherwise there...

An interesting thing about Wittgenstein is that he has always attracted an audience and that audience over time has been quite diverse. There are vari...

While there is always interpretative indeterminacy, when he says: I take putting a lock on the room that they do not have the key to to be a deliberat...

Good point. Socrates addresses this in the Phaedo. The overarching question of the dialogue is what will happen to Socrates. The concern is that the u...

I think he wants us to see and draw the connections, or not. In an early draft of a forward for Philosophical Remarks he wrote: The fact that there ar...

I see at least two related issues here. One is the idea of "the sins of the father". The other is societal responsibility and reparation. Inherited si...

At PI 122 Wittgenstein talks about an übersichtliche Darstellung, a surveyable representation, (alternatively translated as perspicuous representation...

This is the basis for Socrates criticism of Anaxagoras in the Phaedo. Anaxagoras said: But this is not what Anaxagoras did. He gave explanations in ph...

They would have understood both religion and and science in ways that differ from what someone today might understand. That does not mean the ancients...

The presocratic philosophers discussed the relationship between phusis (nature, from the root to grow) and nomos (law, custom). The divided line in th...

Quoting you from the link: I agree with the importance of the imagination for Plato. I also agree that it cannot be determined by logical demonstratio...

I don't know. The truth is, I have not read him. More than once I tried. Reading through the posts here it occured to me that it sounded a lot like no...

I have read some of her novels but not her work on ethics. What are your thoughts?

From the article:

It means that it is not a product of the mind or a deduction or arrived at by analysis. It is known independently of all else. It was a deliberate cho...

To say it is a form of Platonism is not to say that there is a form the Good, but that it is a type of Platonism in that it consistent with Platonist ...

Is Moore's intuitionism a form of Platonism? What does it mean for goodness to be intuited? Noesis of goodness?

More often than not that sparing only occurs in a formal setting - via books, papers, and conferences. The free flow of ideas is stymied by the desire...

That is why I said:

But we do not know that this is what Protagoras claimed. Perhaps his point was not about "me" and "you" but about how things appear to us. I think you...

Aristotle, for example? This is not the whole of his work but still an important part. Commentary has always been used as a rhetorical strategy. A way...

It is for some the former via the latter.

You are responding to something I did not say. I did not say anything about a unity of mankind or uncontestable measurement. Whether it is Parmenides ...

What the claim that man is the measure means is still a matter of dispute. Plato argues against the claim that the man, that is, each person is the me...

This is a good reason to separate the works of Plato and Platonism. Just as Socrates spoke differently and said different things to different people, ...

Trust and hope in a transcendent reality is one option, one that I held at one time. Accepting that this world here and now is beyond our limited comp...

He is referring to what we know as Parmenides fragment three: A couple of translations: ... for this is the same, to think and to be ... for it is the...

I think there are two reasons for this. The first is, as you point out, a deliberate attempt to separate readers. The second, which you hint at, is th...

He once said: “You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” Edit: I'm slow. I didn't pick up that you...

Trump pleaded the 5th more than 400 times for the New York AG deposition a couple of days ago. A prudent move given that anything he said would likely...

Socrates Argument For Why the Good Cannot Be Known The argument is not easily seen because it stretches over three books of the Republic, as if Plato ...

If having a PhD in philosophy and teaching philosophy courses counts as an academic philosopher then I am or was an academic philosopher before I reti...