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I do not think that this is what Socrates does. What Socrates is tasked to do in the Republic is to show that justice is in one's own best interest. T...

Good point. I agree. But Thrasymachus was not disrupting for the sake of disruption. He was a sophist who was paid to teach. He attempted to demonstra...

The Greek term skepsis means investigate. Another term with similar meaning is zetesis. The zetetic philosopher is one who inquires. His knowledge of ...

Thanks. I would think that anyone who challenged the numbers would first look to see what they are. It is not as if this information is not readily av...

But as the commentaries by Bloom's teacher Leo Strauss show, Xenophon was deeply ironic. that is to say, he cannot not simply be taken at face value. ...

Those friggin' Phrygians. But the solution is simply yet ingenious.

I got a good laugh from this! You are extraordinarily well read! I am quite sure that no one else here has ever heard of the Kleptomaniacal school of ...

The Demos essay was published in 1929. I don't think the zeitgeist then, either in general of in philosophy, is today what it was then. But perhaps yo...

This surprised me. The dialogues are mimesis, an imitation of act of thinking. The dialogues are highly crafted wholes. Times have certainly changed. ...

I do not think there is such a thing as approximating complete philosophical truth.

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The same thing happened on the Euthyphro thread. I think it has something to do with an existential vested interest. I am sure that if you are wrong y...

If you get coronavirus and get seriously ill, how will you cope with that? How will that affect your trust in antivirus fear? If I got seriously negat...

So which is it, a history of being exploited or there is not injustice in the world? Or do you think the exploitation is just?

There is a whole lot of evidence to the contrary. Well, if you want to take that as a matter of faith, then okay, but you can't at the same time make ...

You mean like this? A just God would not allow injustice in the world There is injustice in the world Therefore God is not just That does not obviate ...

What do you know of God's justice? How do you account for the injustice in the world? It is not enough to say that injustice is the work of man, for t...

My judging something to be in error does not mean that we are approximating the complete truth. And neither does your's or anyone else's. It is part o...

The probabilities are statistical based on empirical evidence. On the contrary. In places where vaccination numbers are high new cases, hospitalizatio...

In my opinion there cannot be one true philosophy without complete knowledge of the whole. I don't think that is possible. The problem is, we have no ...

And the conjunction of all the ones that are not in error is ... a set of claims that are not in error. They do not amount to "the One True Philosophy...

I do not think it follows from the rejection of one true philosophy that one holds to their own philosophy as the one true philosophy. But since this ...

So is your position that there is "One True Philosophy" or that all claims are equally true?

This is a common mistake. That there is not one true philosophy does not mean that all claims are equal. Some ideas are in error.

In the Phaedrus Socrates says of a well structured speech: Plato does the same for his dialogues. They are wholes with all the parts having a function...

Given those you named I suspect it has more to do with the fact that they were the originators more than anything else. They laid the ground rather th...

I lost interest when rock lost its roll. Mostly jazz and blues for me too. The Chicago blues guys could swing. The later blues-rock guys not so much, ...

Thank you. If you are interested in Plato you might want to look at my thread on the Phaedo.

Thank you. I have decided I will no longer respond to those who are here only to bicker. In fact, I thought of using you as an example of how philosop...

Is this what you think philosophy is about? I have spent a good deal of time and effort trying to address what you have said. I thought you were argui...

I am thinking about starting a thread on the Socratic way of philosophy -his "second sailing", aporia, and what to do with knowledge of ignorance. I t...

Hence my comment: The problem is the notion that an academic/professional philosopher is going solve our problems. There is no reason to think that th...

Of course they would. Eidos and idea are translated as Forms in English. This is completely unfounded. I am going to let my posts speak for themselves...

I do not think Socrates was searching in the darkness. I don't see how anyone who knows the works of Plato and Xenophon would think such a thing. It s...

My point is that I learned to read books. Rather than being fed information, reading requires active participation, trying to think along with what is...

I think the problem has to do with the notion of the domain of the philosopher. Although these are not what is generally thought of as the domain of t...

From an earlier post, in response to Wayfarer: Only I did not learn these things by copying and pasting from Wiki. I spent many years reading Plato, s...

We are not reading Plato's ideas. Some of us, at least, are reading Plato's dialogues. In the Second Letter Plato says he has made Socrates "young and...

It is where logical argument comes to an end that Plato resorts to myths, including the myth of transcendence. In any case, your fondness for argument...

I think there are some here who are able to judge the arguments on their own merits. But I would think a mystic would have no interest in or need for ...

If no scholar believes such things why bring it up? It seems you are trying to find something to dispute. When it turns out that what I have said is i...

Does this mean no moderator?

Have you decided on a moderator?

If you read my OP you would see that except for the last part about the divine principle of justice I addressed the issues cited in this Master's thes...

He does ask about the 'idea' and 'eidos' of piety, that is, the Form. If the Form or Kind can be identified then it can be determined whether what Eut...

I have read Tillich. I think the idea of the ground of being as opposed to a supreme being has its appeal. But I don't think it helps resolve the issu...

Descartes did not limit his method to the objective domain as the term is now understood. It applies to the Meditations, questions of soul, God, and a...

I did not say it does. I said there is more to the story. Start by looking at the other accuser behind Meletus and at Meletus himself. Funny coming fr...

If this is directed at me it shows that you are not familiar with the scholarship. Nothing I have said is a novel interpretation. I could point to tho...

Adam and Eve's fall or as in "I've fallen and can't get up"? (The latter might be an US cultural reference.)