> There's something > intuitive about it, but that isn't really good argument or good evidence, > especially in the case of Plato, who, for all his faults, is very > complicated (oh, wait, that's not a fault?!?). Trying to figure out "what > *Plato* thought" is a fool's errand, imo. Much more interesting and fruitful > to just work with what we get in the dialogues and learn what lessons we can > from them. Plato's *influence* is a separate matter.
I agree that "what Plato really thought" is a fool's errand ... and that it doesn't really matter whose ideas showed up in Plato's dialogues. Perhaps they were written by a committee. ^^^^^ CB: Aren't Plato's ideas reflections of actual reality ? Objective reality is Ideas. Plato's ideas reflect the Ideal reality like shadows on the wall of a cave. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
