by phillipw | May 2, 2020 | LO, PA, PH, PO
Just Plato? “But a man who has nothing more valuable than what he has composed or written, who has spent his time twisting words, sticking them together and pulling them apart is rightly called a poet or a speech writer or a maker of laws.” ~...
by phillipw | Apr 30, 2020 | PH, PL, SO
Wisdom or Wonder “…if Homer and the poets…had knowledge of the truth when they wrote, and could defend their words in conversation, they would deserve to be called lovers of wisdom.” ~ Penelope Murray, Plato on Poetry, 11 Put up your hand if you...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | PH, PL, PO
The Ion, the Phaedrus, the Republic When someone else is all mixed up, we tend To sneer at what they have to say, so why Not Plato? Must we allow him to bend And contradict his arguments? Is high Philosophy supposed to work like that? He has the voices in two...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | PH, PO
Sovereignty “Is it simply that people who philosophize think that people who produce, consume, or appreciate poetry (the philopoiêtai) have the wrong priorities, and the proponents of poetry think the same of the philosophers?” ~...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | PH, PL, PO
The Truth about Ancient History, Plato, and Poetry “Socrates says in the Republic that he and Plato’s brothers might have to inform poetry about the ancient quarrel between it and philosophy. Glenn Most (“What Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry?”) argues...
by phillipw | Mar 17, 2020 | AL, PH
Potidaea and Delium There was a time philosophers and those They taught were men on battlegrounds. They fought Together, side by side. There was no pose (About butch fortitude) in fancy thought— They did it sword and shield and spear and brawn. And if they...
