<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Plato</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite>I'm with you, Joanna. Plato is overrated. Give me Aristotle any day. jks</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Aren't you aware that A was P's pupil,  that our A is mostly students' lecture</div> <div>notes, that virtually all  of A's published writings have disappeared forever,</div> <div>that for more than a millennium no philosopher saw an antagonism</div> <div>between the two, and that many of A's seeming criticisms of P'tonic</div> <div>doctrines are taken directly from P's own works (cf. the "third</div> <div>man argument" in<i> Metaphysics</i>  which is found word for word</div> <div>in the<i> Parmenides</i>)?</div> <div><br></div> <div>Shane Mage<br> <br> "When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.<br> </div> <div>When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true."  (N. Weiner)</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> </body> </html>