Theos-Talk Archives (January 2011 Message tt00059)

Yes. After all, he was a heretic, was he not?


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  From: Drpsionic@0fgjnmE0T_I3c2OeLPheBBX2GnON73E4rEGDQXjrxEsGzpHHyYtZ03fyBx6FqUQuQbKgtRDx0HHa.yahoo.invalid 
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  Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 6:02 PM
  Subject: Re: theos-talk The Thing about Plato,


    
  I have never understood why anyone ever took Plato seriously.

  Chuck the Heretic

  www.charlescosimano.com 

  In a message dated 1/4/2011 4:16:37 P.M. Central Standard Time, 
  thalprin@xqHsvKcG7hTy0KkmQ6hObayBAAN5y8QGZM-2WXHeGhxXLRvjxRFfEpTOnaPFKXL6DLYHTR8Qwnoy8w.yahoo.invalid writes:

  What do you think about Plato? 

  He was brilliant, no doubt, popular too, a/b Socrates would've never wrote 
  a book like The Republic, with all its social engineering; and those were 
  important matters at that time, that continues to be my opinion. 

  On one hand, I think he was/is really brilliant a/b on the other hand, I 
  realize that he's speaking, supposedly, for someone else. He said; he said; 
  he said.... And, in addition to that, I have a problem with a man who 
  besmearches another man's wife, because, well, you know and supposedly, that's 
  what he would've said. Sometimes things like that have real motives; 
  certainly, they're sensational. 

  I'm a big fan of Socrates. He's dear to my heart, I love that guy who, 
  basically, was kill for his stance - how am I to believe that's the very same 
  stance, or point of view, that got Plato massages into his 80s, and a 
  living _name in Philosophy.

  Dunno, a/b brilliant or not I continue to have some serious reservations 
  about the way Plato' work adds up; that's just how I feel.

  Terrie 

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