----- Original Message ----- From: "Bradford DeLong" <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 8:58 PM Subject: Re: Nietzsche and the Nazis (Was Re: aesthetics)
> >Brad wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>A competent philosopher writes in such a way as to make it
> >>hard--not easy--for misreaders...
> >
> >Nothing is easier than misreading. No philosopher is more
competent
> >than Plato, and none more aware of the propensity to misread,
> >but none has been more misread, and in more different ways.
> >
> >Shane Mage
>
> And the dialogue form was rapidly abandoned after Plato
because it
> proved so vulnerable to misreading...
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In the West..................
Ian