what a great response!
sure and i take it to heart. i coul;d sit and read
Republic again. but i will still have to deal with the
-people who, Like Ayn Rand, bright classicist thought to
the modern day with personal biases. nonetheless thanks.
--- michaelP <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >From: Mikal Howard <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Derrida
> >Date: Mon, Dec 6, 2004, 2:26 pm
> >
>
> >
> > to HELL with Plato and his cold hearted philosophy.
> > plato is just Scrooge, justifying a tightfisted
> attitude
> > with all the warmpth and caring of a cold skeletal
> hand.
>
> Mikal, the main problem, as I see it, with reading
> Plato nowadays is that to
> a large extent his thinking has been transmitted down
> to us as interpreted
> (they might call it 'translated') by the
> (neo)Platonists; so much so that we
> now feel no need to think Plato at all, we just toss
> out Platonist nonsense
> as if that were Plato-cum-Socrates its self; this,
> along with equally
> unthinking summaries of the so-called pre-socratics
> (Heraclitus, Parmenides,
> Anaximander, et al) by philosophy departmentalised
> nonthinking drones; one
> even finds this sort of tosh distributed by the likes
> of Nietzsche (who at
> least has some excuse...) whereupon, say, Heraclitus
> ('everything changes',
> 'being is flux is becoming' etc) and Parmenides
> ('being cannot change', etc)
> are viewed as opposites even antagonists [what tosh!].
> The problem is one of
> modernist sedimentation and the taking of the easy way
> out and not even
> trying to close-read the originals. Read Derrida, read
> Heidegger, but most
> of all -- read Plato!
>
> regards
>
> michaelP
>
> Michael Pennamacoor
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