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Because it has been shown to be safe and effective.

I am surprised to hear that you are waiting. The FDA will approve the vaccine. At this point it is a matter of bureaucracy rather than safety or effic...

That there are living things that act purposively, that there are living things with desires, does not mean that the universe must act with purpose an...

What can be said does not limit what can be seen. Language represents or pictures the world, it cannot do so if it is not seen. It does not begin to b...

I take it that Wittenstein is using the term 'transcendental' in the Kantian sense, that is, the condition for the possibility of both language and wo...

Almost everything in my was direct quotes from the Tractatus including his numbers. The numbers should not be ignored.

Meditative practice for the sake of practice is not the same as meditative practice as a means to the end called enlightenment. The terminology, espec...

5.541 At first sight it looks as if it were also possible for one proposition to occur in another in a different way. Particularly with certain forms ...

Isn't the idea of a private language already precluded in the Tractatus?

The statement cannot be understood without understanding how he draws the limits of "my world". Language represents of pictures the world. Ethics and ...

@"Wayfarer" A couple of comments on transcendence in the Tractatus and the good in Plato. Transcendence is not entry into some realm beyond ordinary e...

Since this thread is on the examined life, it is important to be aware of the distance between claims of a transcendent reality and one's own experien...

You went from a false claim about to contemporary physics. The classical philosophical tradition is not what you imagine it to be. The philosophers di...

Thales, Anaxagoras, Democritus, Epicurus, Lucretius, and others were all materialists in some form.

That is a good question. The answer in large part depends on how one reads these books and what is expected of them.

And this is a statement of your assumptions. You said: Each of his statements suggests he had such ignorance. How do you reconcile these statements be...

From the Apology:

Parmenides proem begins with a mythical journey: With Plato too there is a concern with both truth and opinion, the unchanging and changing, logos and...

Unlike some here who would do most of the talking.

You are easily outraged! The quote is with regard to his ignorance. His knowing how to live in the face of his ignorance is what the examined life is ...

The first thing to be considered is why Plato wrote dialogues. It was a choice that cannot be explained away by considerations of time and place. Aris...

I agree. Socrates' knowledge of ignorance is not simply a matter of knowing that he is ignorant, it is knowledge of how to live without knowledge of w...

Does not sound very rational to me. The myth of recollection is fraught with problems. A few quick points: The theme of the Theaetetus is knowledge bu...

If nor opinion then what?

This overstates the problem. Those opinions that seems most likely to be true. We live in the visible realm. Questions about how we ought to live are ...

The OP is framed in terms of ancient and modern. He was not a modern philosopher. As to his importance: Can you give specific examples? The Guide take...

I agree and would add that it is not just a matter of time but of place. The problem is compounded by the fact that it is not only a question of how M...

Socrates did not frame it in terms of constants versus variables but of knowledge versus opinion. We do not have knowledge of the just, noble (beautif...

It is not a matter of standards, but of consideration of the consequences for the well-being of myself and others. There is, however, always the possi...

Those seem to me to be two different questions. I do not think I can enumerate the assumptions I am working with, but they include the assumption that...

None of the following are intended to impart wisdom, but if one is in pursuit of wisdom these books will help with regard to thinking, seeing, evaluat...

You summon me? Socratic philosophy is not formulaic. It is about the development of phronesis. And that is why it cannot be reduced to a formula. Each...

The problem of the Stranger's method of diakrisis in the Sophist is addressed in the Statesman: The Stranger's method abstracts from value, it treats ...

Good point. The Eleatic Stranger in the Sophist says: The Stranger does not care about what is good or just. His concern is only with regard to how th...

You could, I wouldn't.

The examined life is both an examination of life and a life of examination. It is both theoretical and practical. It is a critical examination of what...

We are at an impasse.

It is not a correction. It is a series of weak arguments. The argument is as follows: soul is an attunement, vice is lack of attunement, and so the so...

When he says: he is not talking about some invisible act. The tuning of what is tuned is not the act of tuning, but rather the result. When a musician...

Simmias' argument is influenced by Philolaus. (61d) Perhaps the following will clear up some of the confusion: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phil...

The tuning is not the act of tuning, it is the ratio of frequencies according to which something is tuned. The soul accordingly is the attunement, the...

I like this one from Wittgenstein

The numbers in the heard accords are the ratios of the octave, fourth, and fifth. Knowledge of harmonic movement is not auditory, in is intelligible, ...

This is what he says: Whether or not the perspective is problematic is not at issue in the Phaedo. And yet, that is what is said. You are trying to do...

Socrates does not claim that the soul orders the body . * The soul, according to his argument, brings life to the body. *Bracketed statements are edit...

First, there is no need for something to order the parts. If you assume that the parts together need to be ordered, then each part would also need to ...

It is what he argues against. He does this by changing the terms of the argument. His argument is based on a pre-existing soul, something that is not ...

I see it first as a matter of degree rather than a difference in kind, and second as a difference that grew considerably due to the power of conceptua...

Cebes later calls this assumption into question. (70a) It is, that's the point. Based on the argument that the living come from the dead. He skirts ar...

Right and this is what Simmias says: He could have said that if he was denying that there is such a thing as a soul, but he does not deny it. The Pyth...