The problem of knowledge is an ancient one. In the mythology of the "tree of knowledge" for example, the one tree produces fruit that is both good and...
I am not suggesting a correlation. It is not because they were Christian that they were Nazis. What I am saying is that the fact that they were Christ...
Christianity and Nazism are related by the simple fact that most Nazis were also Christians. Many Christians were also anti-semitic which was one reas...
I would have hoped that in a thread whose title is Nietzsche's notion slave of morality there would be a discussion of Nietzsche's notion slave of mor...
The best and safest hypothesis according to Socrates is the hypothesis of kinds (eidos or Forms). Two “shares in the reality” of Twoness, one in the r...
In case there are some here who are seeing this and might be confused, read the quoted statements above by Rowe and Rosen. The desire for a neat littl...
I am glad you caught that. Plato's playfulness goes unnoticed by those searching for his doctrines, And to be clear, Socrates is talking about myths a...
I agree. One time I shared my concern about this with Rosen. He said that this is why he deliberately tried to distance himself from the "Straussians"...
Based on the divisions in the article you cite my approach would be "Straussian": From an earlier post: These are the people I read and whom I have le...
A proper understanding of the ubermensch is that it is a return to philosophical spirituality. Only it is not Christian spirituality or any transcende...
That's a good question. I don't think it is a step in logical argument, but I do think that Plato intends for the most thoughtful of us to work throug...
I think that this is correct. It is something that I have been attempting to show. Cebes and Simmias are the image of just such non-philosophical read...
From an interview with Stanley Rosen, an influential scholar who has written extensively on Plato: Rosen demonstrates the approach in Plato's Sophist:...
The problem may be that others are only too quick to proclaim what is all too obvious and not pace themselves slowly enough to attend to the details t...
If you are asking about Wittgenstein then yes, I am quite sure. If you are talking about theology then in my opinion God is ineffable and theologians ...
The full statement is: That statement follows this one: T = Tractatus With regard to the existential relationship: NB = Notebooks God is outside the l...
You neglect consideration of an existential relationship. Is this a concept of God that Wittgenstein endorsed? I suggest that if your concern is with ...
Socrates now summarizes Cebes’ argument but makes a significant change without Cebes’ noticing. Did he forget his own argument? Cebes said that every ...
I should add, in case it is not obvious, that wine and fertility are about bodily pleasures. And yet, Socrates throughout the dialogue has railed agai...
Socrates is talking about the Bacchants, those who have been initiated into the rites of Bacchus, that is, Dionysus; the god of the grape, wine, and f...
You seem to have missed the irony. They have recalled the doctrine. They have not recollected. It remains something they have been told rather than kn...
You make some good points. As I have said before, with the dialogues we need to look not only at what is said but at what is done. Here are two exampl...
Socrates calls him divine. In what way is his calling him divine not presenting him as being divine? What he means by this is another matter. And whet...
I do not think there is one right interpretation, but you have not given me a single case of where you think my interpretation is wrong. Without detai...
Do you mean where Socrates said "Homer put it poetically"? (94d) Socrates makes the distinction between poetry and argument several times. Homer does ...
Where in the dialogue is it? Stephanus number? Where? What is the relevance to the dialogue? Again, a stephanus reference would be helpful. See above....
The setting of the work is Socrates last day. If you think that any conclusion I have arrived at is odd then I would welcome a discussion of it. The f...
From the article cited: "The Hellenistic portrait belongs to another category. The heavy, archaizing locks framing the face, the fillet containing the...
No. That was simply the first thing that came up on search. For a more scholarly source: https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft3f59n...
A comment made by Valentinus about Cebes got me thinking about why Plato chose to use him to play such an important part in Socrates’ last dialogue wi...
A major theme of the dialogue is phronesis. If Socrates was an atheist how prudent would it be for him to admit it? His concern is threefold: what thi...
In the Apology: "And now I wish to prophesy to you, O ye who have condemned me; for I am now at the time when men most do prophesy, the time just befo...
I checked a few other translations. I think I misread the one I used: "I possess prophetic power from my master no less than theirs ..." This means pr...
The swans owe their prophetic power to Apollo. Socrates says: "I hold that I myself am a fellow-servant of the swans, consecrated to the same god ..."...
I agree. This openness is a reflection of his zetetic skepticism. Knowing that he does not know he inquires. The other half of his openness may at fir...
Many who are taught to read philosophy are taught to pay attention only to the arguments. With Plato the setting, characters, and action are all essen...
In the works of Plato Socrates daemon only warned him away when from doing things. One argument he made is that if death were bad he would have been w...
In the first section of my reading I discussed Plato's absence. I will have a bit more to say toward the end. We might still know of Socrates through ...
Socrates is well aware of the weakness of his arguments: This kind of hint should not be overlooked. Plato is well aware that the arguments will not p...
This got me thinking about why Plato chose Cebes to be a major participant in this dialogue. I will be trying to tie some things together in an upcomi...
Cebes does not remember what went before, the cyclical claim about life and death he had agreed to. Socrates reminds them that it has been demonstrate...
I won't. When he deliberately alters what I have said, as he has done and elsewhere, I no longer respond. Disagreement is one thing, dishonesty anothe...
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