Sweatin' to the oldies
Cyrus
cyrusgeo at netscape.net
Fri Nov 5 08:31:11 CST 2004
When you are asked to address a specific point and you reply with "lame
generalizations", you get an F, don't you? Or is it a PH?
jollyrogerx99 at yahoo.com wrote:
> Thanks for the Cliffsnotes to the Republic 200 Cyruss, but if you knew
> more about Platonism --both big P and small p--you would have
> discerned a few things:
>
> --advocating censorship of the "inspired madness" of lyric poetry may
> or may not imply a belief in the entire platonic ontology (Marx also
> criticized belle-lettrists) ;
>
> --platonism has been for centuries (and is still by some
> conservatives) held as a logical explanation of abstract entities (the
> real numbers, classes, functions, various mathematical universals) ,
> and modern logicians such as Frege , Russell, and Quine adhered to,
> or acknowledged various platonic concepts.
>
> --Moreover, the platonic "Deity" has little to do with
> judeo-christianity....and its mostly lit. creeps that have seemingly
> decided that "truth" doesn't "exist" ( though not recognizing the
> juvenile contradictions in that assumption)
>
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