[lbo-talk] compare and contrast

Gar Lipow gar.lipow at gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 16:06:02 PDT 2012


On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 3:55 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> It's a hypothesis. My take away from reading the dialogs.
>
> We know nothing about Socrates except what Plato tells us.
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> Joanna

Are you sure? I don't have time to look it up right now, but I could swear I read that a few a people besides Plato wrote down some of what Socrates said. Though even if my memory is correct, this is nit picking, because 99% or more of what we have of Socrates is Plato. Carrol would know off hand I think, but I seem to remember some minor dialogs written by people other than Plato.
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> On Apr 15, 2012, at 3:18 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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>> Plato...was incapable of really comprehending Socrates's gnostic
>> teachings...
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> What were those gnostic teachings?  Where can they be found?
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>
> Shane Mage
> "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.
>
> 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)
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