[lbo-talk] Literacies and Modern Barbarism

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Fri Mar 2 17:30:31 PST 2012


On Mar 2, 2012, at 6:49 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> "Worksof Art" are a modern (Platonic) inventon, part of moderen
> mythology and ideology.
Why do you continue to use "Platonic" as a term of contumacy when, in fact, your argument is entirely in keeping with a consistent theme in Plato (see the discussion of oral vs. written literacy in the Phedrus, or the general discussion in Havelock's "Preface to Plato")?

Shane Mage

This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures.

Herakleitos of Ephesos



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