Month: August 2022

The Seventh Letter! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, John Harward translation).

Themes: On principles/qualities necessary for fusion/union of philosophical with political character, On testing whether one possesses true philosophic spirit/temper, On the difference between the quality of a thing and its essence, On the defective nature of our senses and the four instruments (name, definition, image, knowledge) for acquisition of truth, On the limits of counsel … Continue reading The Seventh Letter! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, John Harward translation). →

Parmenides! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation).

THEMES: On the concept of participation in forms/ideas, On the science of One, On the doctrine of Ideas and Being, A critique of Platonic ideas and Eleatic doctrine of Being, On the difficulty of the whole, An investigation into the notions of sameness-oneness-otherness-greatness-smallness-becoming-time-equality-likeness-otherness, An exposition on the positive and negative hypotheses of the being/non-being of the one and the … Continue reading Parmenides! (Synopsis – highlights & unredacted quotes lifted from the Socratic dialogue by Plato, Benjamin Jowett translation). →