No mention of Eudaimonia in there Ron ? BTW Love, love, love is all we need, that "crazy little thing called love" is what it's all about. Love may tear us apart, but love will NEVER be hackneyed or cliched.
Regards Ian On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:44 PM, X Acto<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > more words of wiki- > > "Socrates used this claim of wisdom as the basis of his moral exhortation. > Accordingly, he claimed that the chief goodness consists in the caring of > the soul concerned with moral truth and moral understanding, that "wealth > does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, > both to the individual and to the state", and that "life without examination > [dialogue] is not worth living". It is with this in mind that the Socratic > Method is employed. > The motive for the modern usage of this method and Socrates' use are not > necessarily equivalent. Socrates rarely used the method to actually develop > consistent theories, instead using myth to explain them. The Parmenides > shows Parmenides using the Socratic method to point out the flaws in the > Platonic theory of the Forms, as presented by Socrates; it is not the only > dialogue in which theories normally expounded by Plato/Socrates are broken > down through dialectic. Instead of arriving at answers, the method was used > to break down the theories we hold, to go "beyond" the axioms and postulates > we take for granted. Therefore, myth and the Socratic method are not meant > by Plato to be incompatible; they have different purposes, and are often > described as the "left hand" and "right hand" paths to the good and wisdom. > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
