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I think there is good reason money has gotten such short shrift among philosophers... Socrates, in The Republic, if I recall correctly, describes its ...

@"Nikolas". It was not Socrates’ insistence that he knew nothing that was offensive to the authorities. Indeed, he used this statement as a form of fa...

...and I think the two charges work in unison. In other words, Socrates corrupted the youth by teaching strange gods, not by loving boys sexually... ....

@"Olivier5". Just to clear a couple of things up... We have Xenophon’s Memorabilia, alongside Plato’s Dialogues, as another source, sometimes more pow...

Money can have no certain value because it has an ambiguous nature: it is both the means to wealth, and wealth itself.

Masculinity becomes toxic when it’s actions offend a woman, and the standard for judgement varies widely... Some women are offended only when you slap...

@"Pfhorrest". Pure curiosity, the sort that “killed the cat” as the saying goes, I don’t believe, alone, can lead one to true philosophy. One must be ...

@"Pfhorrest". I think you misunderstand me. When I say one should dwell with a book/soul for a long while, I don’t mean that one should strive to thor...

@"Janus". For my part, I was thoroughly entertained by this word-play, and especially since it was participated in by someone who might one day “virtu...

@"Possibility". Ha ha! Let me tell you a funny story, Mrs. Possible... When I was in sixth grade my teacher was one Ms. Conrad, an attractive young au...

@"Pfhorrest". So I take it, Mr. Pfhorrest, that if you were enthusiastic about the art of say, making moonshine whiskey, and wished to become a master...

@"tim wood". Mr. Wood, when the moderator uses such vile language and threatens exile or banishment, he is motivated by moral indignation, THE enemy o...

@"Possibility". I agree with you that pain and suffering are necessary ingredients of life, and I believe that was a point of contention earlier in th...

@"Possibility". Well Mrs. Possible, you have certainly been very forthcoming about aspects of your early life, about your parents and brother, etc...s...

I tend to side with those in this discussion who contradict the assumption that we can know well our own time simply because we live in it. I believe ...

@"Possibility". Characteristically, Mrs. Possible, the next morning, after I have participated in this forum the previous evening, I go back over in m...

@"Ori". Well, Mr. Ori, as far as #3 goes, I wish I could do the same and SOME ppl here not get offended... As far as #4 goes, why would you be surpris...

@"Possibility". Wow. Okay, so, am I correct to assume that, since your mom responded to the MeToo movement, that y’all are Aborigines?... So, it is ea...

@"Ori". Ok, Ori, so, say you have your “ideal” situation: your own private domicile, and friends that you can go out with and whose company you can en...

@"Possibility". I tend to agree with you Mrs. Possible, and I think your psychological analysis is on-spot. Extremely drunk patients file regularly in...

@"Ori". Wouldn’t you agree though that you already live by bowing to the common rules that the society you live in sets for all its members? In a sens...

@"Possibility". What was your mother like? Was she resentful about having to be a stay-at-home mom and not being allowed to pursue a career?

@"Pinprick". Indeed we are all guests in another’s home, just as Socrates and his interlocutors were guests of Cephalus in his home as described in Th...

@"Possibility" Well, I obviously had preconceived notions of you, Mrs. Possible... You say that the only compliment you heard as a little girl was tha...

@"Bitter Crank" Well, Mr. Crank, I can see you have been here forever,...which surprises me a bit considering what I, a very recent member, just exper...

My concern is that, should Socrates have raised some of the questions he did with his interlocutors in Plato’s Republic in THIS, a supposedly “philoso...

@"Baden" If you’ll look back, I never said my post was deleted BEFORE it was posted, which your fellow censor just affirmed.

@"Baden" So, some other moderator can work “at the speed of light”, but you can’t?

@"Baden" why won’t you respond to the rest, Mr. Baden? Did it strike you as too uncomfortably true?

@"Possibility" When you suggested earlier that we ought to be talking about things more pertinent to our lives, “family” as opposed to acute angles, I...

I have been a participant in this forum for only a couple months or so, and early on I noticed playful references to banning, “be careful what you say...

@"Baden" Do you mean rather that nothing never “disappears” due to manual moderation? Nor did I mean to provoke anyone...just state an opinion... If s...

Funny... I just “posted” something here that apparently was considered so inappropriate by the powers that be that it never appeared...would y’all lik...

@"Possibility" It is curious to me, O Possible One, that you failed to address my second question in your last post: is Rovelli’s theory not compromis...

My older brother liked to repeat the tale how Mama slapped his face in front of all the family one day at dinner, and to express his indignation at th...

@"Possibility" Well, Mr. Possible, we might move on from acute angles to discuss something less benign, like family, and more pertinent to our lives a...

@"deusidex" Just remember dear deusidex: better to dwell with one book/soul deeply...than to reside with many temporarily, like a man who moves from o...

@"baker" Well, I propose a distinction be made here first of all between a child’s “nature”, and his “character”: the former is fixed in his genes; th...

@"Possibility" Can anything that exists without relation to time, in your opinion, ever change? That is, be altered in any way from what it (already) ...

@"deusidex" What of Seneca have you read, and what translations? His Dialogues, and On Benefits are excellent, but I think his greatest work is perhap...

@"deusidex" I read Latin, and have read Seneca in his own tongue throughout most all of his philosophical works...if you should ever have any uncertai...

@"deusidex" Oh dear deusidex!...you will never learn until you put your notes aside and experience learning as a sensory pleasure...take notes later, ...

@", deusidex” Absolutely you should reread books that have affected you. Allan Bloom said that Leo Strauss read Plato’s Republic, carefully, 50 times....

If we divide love up into different sorts with different names and properties, then we end up discussing different things under the guise that we are ...

@"Possibility" You say “When we think of an acute angle...we assume it is eternal, but to be honest, we wouldn’t know.” So are you retracting your pre...

@"baker" I don’t say unwanted children have a bad nature. I would certainly say they have a bad nurture.

@"Anyone" Is not love the longing to have what you do not possess? For example, if I love money, do I not strive to possess more of it than I have? Or...

@"Pantagruel" Your explanation of enantodromia reminded me of an old black-and-white movie I saw as a kid that effected me. In it (I don’t remember it...

@"baker" I would call such a child one in need of foster parents who would receive him or her as a blessing instead of a curse.

@"Benj96" Does a child with a perverse nature want to listen to parent who tells him “no”? And if you listen to a child and only hear bad things, sche...