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Friday, April 8, 2011

Day 66: Statesman 272a-276e

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Today: more mythologizing about the cosmos, more discussion of kingship, and more methodological discussion about the right way to divide cl...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

Day 65: Statesman 267d-271e (pgs. 309-313)

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Today: a small discussion of some possible differences between kingship and other kinds of "herding" (why does the king need help ...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Day 64: Statesman 263e-267d (pgs. 304-308)

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Today: (a) More discussion of the divisions within "self-directed herding." It is easy to understand why John Cooper wrote the las...
Monday, April 4, 2011

Day 63: Statesman 259d-263e (p. 299-303)

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Our reading today continues the search for the Statesman through the method of collection and division. 262b: I found one of the Visitor...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

Day 62: Statesman 257a-259d (pgs. 294-298)

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The first of 13 days of the _Statesman_! Today we got Cooper's introduction, some dramatic preliminaries, and a bit of discussion of kno...
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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Day 61: Sophist 265d-268d (p. 290-293)

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Today we have the final classification of sophists and statesmen, and we're done another dialogue! Just two notes: 1. The role of appea...
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Friday, April 1, 2011

Day 60: Sophist 261b-265d (pgs. 285-289)

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Today: more application of the newly developed metaphysics to the questions of what falsity (especially false speech and belief) could be an...
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