In "Sophist" by Plato the visitor from Elea seems to make similar assertions about the Sophist as RMP makes against modern academia. The visitor asserts to Theatus that the sophist reify concepts and sell them as the experiences they represent he also criticizes their use of rhetoric as rationalized arguements not grounded in empirical experience. This is pretty much the same arguement raised in "Phaedrus" in which Socrates tries to persuade Phaedrus that an empirically grounded oratory is superior and best precedes any rhetoricaly persuasive arguement. In effect the Sophist is being
branded a rationalist. It is also interesting to note how Socrates use of Elanchus is illustrated as the effort to understand a concept or situation plurally and relationally in a radically empirical manner. a good read. .. 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/md/archives.html
