Hello from the dog house ... One hears of textual work being done with Shakespeare in an attempt to establish whether WS was in fact the author - looking for...
* * Schofield translation, Hackett edition: What else would law be, Socrates, but what is accepted? Accepted is the translation for ta nomizomena. -- Nomizô...
... wrote: For a "Straussian" defence of the inclusion of the Minos along with other dialogues as being genuine works by Plato, you can check out Thomas...
... Mr. Gregory, thanks for your very interesting and informative discussion Perhaps, it would be useful to compare some transaltions of what seems to be an...
The question of the authorship of the Minos is so silly. Plato wrote it, because it is Plato's thought and thinking, not to mention that it is a fine piece of...
Hello Mr. Gillis, ... I am sorry to say, no, I am not really up to speed on these matters. I have logged them as a future project, however, because I think it...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "In the last section of the central part Socrates proves that law is an art by assuming that art consists of distributing...
Dear List Members: "The third and last part of the _Minos_ deals with the laws of Minos." Strauss now begins his analysis of prophecy. As I explained...
Hello Mr. Gillis, ... My pleasure. ... Thank you for Pangle's translation. I believe I see in the translation that he was grappling with the problem I...
Hi George, Kalev et al A piece of woven cloth has orthogonal threads. I am reading of the notion of history in one of Klein's essays. Klein argues that the two...
Dear Mr. Oates, I am not so sanguine about your string theories and the various alleged natural laws that modern sciences use to convince us that the world is...
Positivism is best understood ( indeed the only defensible way ) as a reaction to 19c German idealism. Science is best understood as a sceptical and...
... Hi Dan, --"Sure. First you need to know the reason for the ancient chat. I am quite certain you have no idea the reason for Strauss' interest in ancient...
Hi Bill, I just discovered your message, searching through the many things that accumulated while I was away in Greece, and noticing that Kalev had replied to...
Law is partially an aid to prediction, which is one leg of stress management, the other is control. The intent of the enaction of law is to create a controlled...
Well, Mr. wblakesx, I believe that you might follow through the gaps you indicate and discover something about the question Socrates actually does ask. Your...
W.B., ... --I read it in the Gay Science. It's the second aphorism of the 5th book, which was added 10 years after the original four books were published....
... you ... Do we argue from axioms? From fundementals or from gestalts? Cluade Bernard presented the idea of the "Milleau Interior" leading Walter Cannon to...
... ancient chat. ... you're ... for this ... hear it ? ... book, ... published. The ... event--that ... publication. The ... take it ... Absolutelty... :) ...
... [etc., snip] ... It strikes me that you are performing an admirable job at articulating certain features of modern science, so I invite you to stand back...
... How ummm, pre... of you. ... fundamentals or ... More properly it should be phrased the other way round. Proper science offer's the best working...
I came sceptical but open to LS, nuetral but well disposed ( much sounds patently absurd but I was prepared to see that as a failing in me )towards P. Now I...
I came sceptical but open to LS, nuetral but well disposed ( much sounds patently absurd but I was prepared to see that as a failing in me )towards P. Now I...
I came sceptical but open to LS, nuetral but well disposed ( much sounds patently absurd but I was prepared to see that as a failing in me )towards P. Now I...
... Mr. wblakesx, Sometimes there are postings that have the initial effect of prompting me to ask whether it is appropriate for me to respond, but I do ...
"I am always impressed by the cowardice of the word "perhaps." "Perhaps" is the cop-out of those who decline to "put their money where their mouth is," as the...
A slow reading of Plato's Timaeus is just now getting started on my plato-timaeus list. If you would like to join it, you may subscribe by sending email to ...
"He blue his mind out in a car.... he didn't notive that the lights had changed..." What is it about heightened scrutiny and aeshtetics? " higamous hogomous...
