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Re: Mythical Knowledge

Ebrahim Mousavi — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:41:50 GMT

Hi Shane Mage These are Good examples and I think these myths and stories and metaphors should be separated from each other. Some are reported from ancient

Re: Mythical Knowledge

Ebrahim Mousavi — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:24:42 GMT

Hi R.E. Taylor I am glad of your response and good points on meaning about knowledge. But I don’t mean the content of our knowledge, which you have given an

Re: Mythical Knowledge

Shane Mage — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:55:07 GMT

... That Plato sometimes uses myth as metaphor--as in the passage Robert cites from the Phaedrus, or in the Cave metaphor of the Republic-- should not obscure

Re: Mythical Knowledge

Robert Eldon Taylor — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:51:16 GMT

... Dear Ebrahim Mousavi, You ask an interesting question, whose answer depends on your meaning of knowledge. You do not mean, of course, the knowledge of

Mythical Knowledge

Ebrahim Mousavi — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:37:16 GMT

Hi all; I am looking for Mythical Knowledge in Platonic and Neo-Platonic sources, and appreciate if you help me about the subject and the sources. We know

The Secret of the Historical Dialectic

detonacciones — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:17:47 GMT

Dear Plato Group Members, Marx's advance on the concept of Historical, or Diachronic, Dialectic, which was '''psycho-historically''' all but inconceivable for

Applicability / Viability of Plato's idea of an ideal state in today

Wong Jing Hao — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:31:40 GMT

Can it be applied? How about justice as harmony? Can it be used too today?

creation of soul in Timaeus

marufcs01 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:31:14 GMT

Dear i am not understanding following lines in Timaeus. "First of all, he took away one part of the whole [1], and then he separated a second part which was

Re: New Benardete book

PRAGER WALTHER — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:39:02 GMT

Thanks, Ray ... From: delv Subject: [plato] New Benardete book To: plato@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 5:53 PM This was

New Benardete book

delv — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:54:45 GMT

This was posted by another member on the Leo Strauss link. Thought members might be interested. Ray

Re: Dialectic Critique of Set Theory--->Set-Theoretic Model of Diale

detonacciones — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:56:22 GMT

Dear Plato Group Members, Three academic papers, by three different authors, each of whose content overlaps with that of the F.E.D. discoveries, have recently

Dialectic Critique of Set Theory--->Set-Theoretic Model of Dialectic

detonacciones — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:38:36 GMT

Dear Plato Group Members, INTRODUCTION. The post below implicitly raises the issue as to whether the "Set of All Sets" and the "Set Of All Objects" exhibit the

Re : [plato] Plato on the Good

Thomas — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:39:39 GMT

or the question would be; this lecture by Plato on the Good with mathematics, etc, sound a lot like Socrate's in the Republic (the divided line etc..). Maybe

Plato on the Good

Thomas — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:31:54 GMT

Quite interesting is Aristoxenus's account of what Aristotle told him about the content of Plato's lectures on the Good. These were not in the form of Socratic

Re: Dialogues Query

Robert Eldon Taylor — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:01:35 GMT

Planeaux, Christopher S wrote: "Now, as to whether or not reading = performing I leave as another discussion altogether (we do have, nonetheless those two