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>>1445422

Write 3 short paragraphs + intro/concl on Platonic anamnesis.

Easy as pie

Why has there never been a good female philosopher?

Cicero on Plato's Republic:

>"The Republic does not bring to light the best possible regime but rather the nature of political things – the nature of the city."

Contemporary liberalism honors diversity and tolerance above all, but what it calls by those names is different from what has been so called in the past. Its diversity denigrates and excludes ordinary people, and its tolerance requires speech codes, quotas, and compulsory training in correct opinions and attitudes. Nor do current liberal totems and tabus have a clear connection with letting people live as they wish. Prohibitions, both grand and petty, multiply. To outsiders the rules often seem simply arbitrary: prayer is forbidden while instruction in the use of condoms is required; smoking and furs are outrages, abortion and sodomy fundamental rights.

Many of these oddities can be explained by reference to the specific understanding of tolerance held by contemporary liberals. "Tolerance" is traditionally understood procedurally, to mean letting people do what they want. Contemporary liberals understand it substantively, to require equal respect as a fact of social life. These understandings are radically inconsistent. As a political matter, procedural tolerance calls for laissez-faire, while substantive tolerance requires pervasive administrative control of social life. A regime that adopts substantive tolerance as its goal must be intolerant procedurally because it must control the attitudes people have toward each other, and any serious attempt to do so will require means that are unforgiving and despotic.

>Where X is some object of philosophical interest, some philosophers (the Realists) say that X is real and just what it appears to be, others (the Reductionists) say that X is real but not what it appears to be, and a third group (the Anti-Realists) says that X is not real at all, but at best merely a convenient fiction (and maybe not even that)

Group A is often right
Group B is always wrong
Group C is sometimes right

dicuss

>>1131810

>your

>>1022004

I adamantly disagree with you.

http://www.philosophicalmisadventures.com/?p=44

Thoughts?

Unlike music or video recordings, which require a device to read them, the traditional book requires no mediating instrument. The fact of using an electronic book reader could in fact be regarded as complicating a fairly simple and effective relationship--one that has endured for centuries. Or, to put it another way, it could be compared to adopting a prosthetic device in circumstances that do not truly warrant it.

>>762396

>detached humankind from mythical thinking

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato-myths/

>>726690

>People need to stop dick riding plato.
We stopped long ago.
We need to start up again.

The mentality of today seeks to reduce everything to categories connected with time; a work of art, a thought, a truth have no value in themselves and independently of any historical classification everything is considered as an expression of a "period" and not as having possibly a timeless and intrinsic value; this is entirely in conformity with a modern relativism that destroys essential values.

Seconding Plato

Yes
Read Plato

>The philosopher Plato was said to have been conceived by the Greek god Apollo. It is said that Plato's father was about to have sex with Perictione, Plato's mother, when he was stopped by Apollo; thereafter he kept her pure until she brought forth baby Plato.

>Throughout the first two millennia of Platonism’s 2400 year history the Timaeus has been considered the most important of Plato's works.

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