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You neglect what is perhaps the single greatest conspiracy of all time, Christianity. Beginning with the self-appointed Church Fathers it has laid cla...

I will take up issues as they occur in the text.

The next section will cover up to and including 64a.

I recommend reading at your own pace, moving forward and backwards with the eventual goal of seeing the whole.

Socrates obeys what the dream commands so as to acquit himself of any impiety. (60e) Only now, at the end of his life, he doubts that he has not obeye...

And I look forward to a dialogue about this dialogue.

So, you are "concerned" but don't think they have a right to health care or help when needed. Do you recognize the rights to life, liberty, happiness,...

And yet that "concern for all persons" does not extend to their health or whether children have food and shelter. Evidently your concern extends only ...

What are these rights that you afford them? Do you afford them the right to healthcare? Food and shelter for indigent minors?

A few quick points: You are correct in noting the charge of atheism against Socrates. This influenced how Socrates was depicted by Plato and Xenophon....

Except it is not the individual that is the primary concern. The primary concern of individualism is ME. If your primary concern is for all persons th...

Well sometimes you may offend someone by telling the truth. Case in point, My calling out Apollodorus' ignorance and obstinance in this thread. The tr...

Tell yourself whatever it is you need to. Resorting to false accusations, accusing me of saying things I did not is dishonest and cowardly.

Sorry Shawn, I was joking. Taking the position that I can only be sure of my own existence, everything I said, beginning with the fact that I responde...

I tell myself this all the time, but no one listens. And by no one, of course, I mean me.

Of course.

I could but I'm tired of arguing with myself and ending up doubting myself.

PM sent.

But I am not an entity that is re-born?

What does this have to do with what Jesus meant by love your neighbor? Your problem with Marxists seems to go much deeper than a difference in ideolog...

I do not think that I am cornered. Is that what you intend? To corner me? We are in the process of packing up and moving back to our summer residence....

He is an intellectual disease vector. Fortunately many here have been inoculated.

Obviously you have not looked at any of the sources I pointed to. Most are by Christian scholars. Apollodorus, the truth is not the enemy, or is only ...

Many years ago I met a Catholic priest and since I had been reading a commentary on Genesis wanted to know his views. To my surprise he admitted he kn...

Questions about how we ought to live, on a personal, social, political, and geo-political level.

Me too, but your question is one that is often asked.

Perhaps philosophy is not about solving problems but an awareness of them and figuring out how best to live and think given what we cannot answer.

One is the shift from the philosophical assumptions of being to becoming, that things have a fixed end-point or completion which determine what they a...

But that is not the same as this: The form of another being does not maintain the same shape or is it owned and operated by some other being. Put diff...

You responded to a question about the soul. I assumed your response had something to do with what was asked.

It's not. Changing one physical part with another has nothing to do with the nebulous notion of a soul.

@"Banno" How dare you bring facts into a discussion of the soul!

Perhaps for the average person who did not know what questions to ask and simply believed whatever it was they were told to believe.

Does Christianity provide a coherent account of the soul or simply claim it? Which version of Christianity are you talking about? The one that claim b...

See my earlier comments about Plato's Phaedo. While ostensibly he is laying out an argument to support an immortal soul, he is at the same time showin...

You seem to have lost track of the argument. It is not a crime, but it is also not what Jesus said or what he meant. All that stuff came later. I said...

Being the master musician and innovator he was is essential to the identity of Jimi Hendrix. Someone with a different identity would not be him. I hav...

In that case, contrary to what you said, they do not retain the experiences and skills that involve bodily movement. The reincarnated Jimi Hendrix wou...

I am well aquanted with Christianity. What you are ignoring is its history and factions. I have given you all the information you need to do the resea...

Main argument? You asked: Manual skills are bodily skills. They involve touch and specific bodily movements. How are they maintained if you no longer ...

I don't have to imagine it. You accused me of making it up: First you claim I made it up, and when I cite them you claim you knew all along. There is ...

In the case of muscle memory I don't see how it can be carried into another life if the muscles are not part of that life. Besides, I might be reincar...

I would have no manual skills without a body. Those skill involve muscle memory. Fear has a bodily component, flooding the body with adrenaline, fight...

I make no distinction between me and my body. I would have none of the things you mention if I was a disembodied entity somehow tethered to a body.

It is anyone's guess what will happen to Trump but the direction the Republican Party is going in is clear. They believe they have a winning formula, ...

The problem is using a term that has various meanings does not tell us what it is that endures beyond life. Neither Aristotle's psyche or the Hebrew r...

Right, but the idea of a soul that reanimates a body which is not the same body but is still somehow "you" is not the same as Aristotle's psyche or th...

Is this what counts as an argument for you? There is an extensive literature on this, much of it written by Christian scholars. There are online versi...

Sounds horrible. During surgery they give the patient paralytics. There are cases where the paralytics works but the patient is still aware and can fe...

The term has a long history and has meant different things. To say that the soul is something other than the body does not tell us what it is, it just...