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We should not forget that in the Phaedrus there is the plain of Aletheia or truth. (248b) I agree. In the Phaedo the distinction between recollection ...

It is by necessity. Given the conditions the souls all get thirsty. There is not other source to drink from. If you mean why does the story include th...

Heedlessness is Horan's translation. Bloom translates it as carelessness. The Greek is ???????? It means, according to Liddell and Scott. An Intermedi...

The Plain and River of Forgetfulness or Lethe Because of the heat and harsh conditions of the Plain of Forgetfulness it is necessary for the souls to ...

One aspect that is often ignored is that we are historied and encultured beings.

Looking back I see that I did not include quotation marks for the passage from the Laws. I have edited it.

I took Lachesis' role to be that once the choice of a daimon and of a life is made by the soul, that choice becomes part of the fate of that soul. The...

One can be brought up with good habits, but that does not mean that philosophy is part of their education. Good habits do not preclude philosophy, but...

In the Timaeus necessity is called the wandering or errant cause. (48a) The necessary connection between necessity (ananke) and chance (tyke) is discu...

The Spindle of Necessity or Ananke. In the eponymous dialogue Timaeus he identifies two kinds of cause, intelligence and necessity, that is, Nous and ...

It does not seem as though there is anything he might say or do that would significantly change the polls. It is not as if, even with the evidence, Tr...

There are too many variables for there to be a scientific determination based on the polls of the outcome of the election. Rather than bet, I'll hold ...

Appreciated but no apologies necessary. From my last response to your thread "With philosophy, poetry and politics on my mind..." I think in discussio...

I think in discussions of Plato we are doing at least two things: 1) Discussing ideas and issues that arise in the part of the dialogue we are reading...

An interesting point. Socrates says: (618b-c)

I question this assumption. The purpose, as stated at the beginning of Book 2, is not to make an ideal state, but to persuade those listening that it ...

It is. I will address some of it in relation to the myth of Er, but that does not mean the rest is not important. I wanted to address what @"Benkei" r...

I think of Socratic/Platonic irony as a turning around, and this not simply as saying one thing and meaning another, but of things being more and othe...

The discussion turns to the fate of the soul. We might be surprised at Glaucon's reaction. But for Homer, to lose one’s life is to lose one’s soul. It...

Can you say more about this?

There is another side to this that I will be addressing.

What are the natural laws? How are they known? If they are known then what is the purpose of imitation of the laws? Or is it that the law givers attem...

I don't think so. Many of the problems raises in the dialogues do not seem to have a resolution. Some might find the odd or unsatisfactory, but I thin...

My first thought was that those who say that book 10 adds nothing of much value have not understood it. But that is not very helpful. So, instead of l...

Simonides does not function as a blank canvas. Quite the opposite. He was too well known and influential to be treated this way. In the Protagoras Soc...

Here is the problem in Socrates own words: (Phaedrus 275d) (Protagoras 347e)

This is truncated. What is at issue is how what he is purported to have said is to be understood. If it is misunderstood this does not mean the a wise...

You quote the text: (emphasis added) Who does "the one who said it" refer to? As I read it, what is at issue is the distinction between what is said a...

I will let Cephalus speak in my defense: (331b) Cephalus has been freed from eros, (329c) but has not escaped the fear of death. He is, by all appeara...

Shorter answer: The question of whether a saying or definition should be credited to someone who is wise is secondary to the question of what the sayi...

The term 'genius' as used by the Transcendentalist Emerson. As expressed in the passage from Emerson quoted by T Clark: It seems to me to be an odd mi...

I think the best we can do is be aware of them. Even when we examine our beliefs we cannot do so by stepping outside of them. Philosophical dialogue c...

Your tell Jafar: as if anything I said was intended to: Your claim that "the purpose behind the examination and evaluation is to figure out how other'...

I found the following from my response to you to be very helpful: The Daodejing says: (Chapter 16) Tenuousness is an openness, a lack of insistence. I...

Jafar said: Telling him to put his thoughts into words is to ignore the thoughts he has put into words. Articulating your thoughts is an essential par...

I think this puts you at a distinct advantage. All too often giving an opinion is mistaken for doing philosophy. Rather then telling others what you t...

He's peddling Crypto now. Act now! Don't wait! What do you have to lose? @"180 Proof"

A book based on facts cannot compete against a manufactured TV and magazine image developed over decades that gives him the appearance of being the em...

Good analogy! Vance knows full well that the problem with such lies is that the MAGA - nauts will believe it and act on it. Vance may be unscrupulous ...

And then there is Vance who openly admits lying in order to get attention.

Get some new shoes?

It is not a question of their right but of what is right. The public response to her campaign is news worthy. Perhaps there is some gushing from some ...

If the investigators, reporters, and producers at NPR have, based on the facts, concluded that he is a serious danger to the US democracy and groups o...

What else do you want to know about me?

Great question and observation. This allows him to say something without using words while leaving him an out. Having an out is very important to him....

China is moving car manufacturing to Mexico. Trump's threat of a blood bath referred to this. Of course, American car manufacturers also make cars in ...

Wittgenstein calls it a proposition not a rule. We follow rules. We do not follow propositions. Propositions are either true or false. Calling it a hi...

Or, perhaps you are wrong! Deleted. I decided that there is no benefit in responding to your churlishness.

There is not a single agreed upon sense or meaning or assumptions that define the term 'epistemic', but I do not think we can deny that epistemology d...