An amateur can become interested if it becomes clear what is at issue, why, for example, the question can't simply be settled by a definition. But bei...
Wittgenstein' concern is with the fact that it happens, not why it happens. He does not attempt to explain. He is well aware of the pitfalls. Wittgens...
When you look at the picture of the duck-rabbit what do you see? The picture does not change but what you see does. This is not a matter of understand...
I see. The one who administers the poison is just in so far as he is doing his job. On the model of the Republic, one man one job. Minding his own bus...
How a thing is seen and how it is understood, although related, is not the same. A mechanic might look at a bunch of parts and see how they are connec...
Seeing as is also called seeing an aspect. The best known example is the duck-rabbit. He does not think we first interpret it and then see it one way ...
When Wittgenstein talks about "philosophy" he is often talking about what was being done by his contemporaries and the problems their thinking gets th...
Socrates' myths, some of which are "in accordance with things said" and some of which he makes up and some of which he makes up and claims to be in ac...
I am not sure what you are getting at. If someone is poor and values wisdom over socioeconomic success, depending on how this affects others, I am not...
I had to look it up. A summary from Wiki: The Church Fathers, based on their own authority, decided what was canonical and what was heretical. Prior t...
We do not know what his message was in distinction from the messages that emerged in his name and was in some cases suppressed. The central theme of t...
Yes, it can and has been argued. The fact that it was a ubiquitous belief might be a good reason for why it appears in some of the dialogues, but it i...
In the Phaedo he says that the soul of a man might be that of an ass in the next life, or an ant, or other animal. (82a-b) This of course raises probl...
And yet despite the opposition both houses are firmly within Judaism. It is this pluralism that makes the claim that he broke with Judaism questionabl...
I don't know what you mean. If you mean your name was combined with quietism that was not intentional. The @ function did not leave a space. If you me...
Yes, Torah is the Law. In keeping with the topic, we should consider the different Jewish groups at the time of Jesus. In addition to differences betw...
Yes, I agree. Previously I said: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/doctrine-dogma/ According to the Talmud, the oral Torah existed alongside th...
Given what Socrates says about the body in the Phaedo and his seeming indifferent to how he is to be buried (115c), what are we to make of his bathing...
He says: It is Paul who makes the distinction between the letter and spirit of the Law. Given the quote above, it seems as if Jesus himself might have...
The former is legal and applies to all who are under the Law, the latter is a matter of personal choice. An eye for an eye does not teach that one sho...
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus makes clear his strict allegiance o the Law. @"Valentinus" comment about a Jew wrestling with another Jew is central ...
There is, but there is a difference between presenting socioeconomic success as less relevant than it is and first hand experience that it is not all ...
To elaborate: The story of Jacob wrestling with God is emblematic for Judaism: There are various aspects of Judaism with which one wrestles or struggl...
From the link you provided: This is not a list of questions although it can be a part of the examined life, I think Socrates would have many questions...
In the first sentence of the Examination of Conscience: Here the moral law is established. The examined life for Socrates does not assume an establish...
An eye for an eye comes from Exodus 21:24. The paragraph begins, "If people are fighting ...". An eye for an eye means that under the law punishment a...
The passage is not about how one lives. It is about how one appears to be in order to persuade. One need not have good will, only give the impression ...
This is the other passage I thought you might be referring to. Rhetoric is about what is said, not what is done. In order to be persuasive he must giv...
I was responding to this: It may matter for different reasons. For some Jesus is the voice of authority, for some human and or others divine, and so, ...
The problem of evidence is that there is no evidence. We do not know what Jesus taught. We can date the gospels and note significant differences, but ...
I would like to hear more. It raises some questions. Should one have good will toward his enemies? Doesn't phronesis include the ability to discern be...
How can we know what the teaching of Jesus are and what are the teachings attributed to him? While I think we can identify the influence of Paul and J...
There are two Greek terms that are fundamental to virtue ethics. Neither has a single word for word translation. The first is arête. It is often trans...
What is the connection between wisdom and socioeconomic success? Is someone wise to be born into inherited wealth? Is someone unwise if because of cir...
If the examined life is prescriptive then there is no need to examine, just do what is prescribed. And yet, some will ask about what is prescribed - I...
The passage from Matthew is taken from Deuteronomy 6.5. It follows the passage known in Judaism as the "Shema", from the first word of 6.4, meaning he...
I think he is addressing both those who recognize or will come to understand that these are things said rather than things known, and those who will b...
The focus is on oneself, on self-examination. One cannot do more than they are willing and capable of doing. Self-deception is a problem and includes ...
This is the fundamental problem of Socratic philosophy. We do not have knowledge of the good itself. And yet, we all desire what is good for us, even ...
The rejection of an eternal order and the claim that: are two very different things. That there is an eternal order is an assumption that should be qu...
See Nietzsche's On the Use and Abuse of History for Life, how second natures become first natures. Existentialism does not fall on one side or the oth...
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