Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Endnotes

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Chuck Close apparently suffers from face blindness . [! - via marginal revolution ] DuPont's solution to the problem of securing explosi...

Footnotes on things I've been reading: Steven Pfaff's "Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany"

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Steven Pfaff, Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany (2006). Despite the unpromising title, this is a superb analytical nar...
Monday, June 28, 2010

What’s purple and commutes?

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Answer: An Abelian grape. From here , on the colorful lives of the mathematicians. (And yes, I'm trying to revive this blog).
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Power

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It is not often noted (an exception is Hemmenway 1994 , p. 265, note 12 [ JSTOR ]) that the Stranger’s top-most category in his divisions, t...
Friday, March 16, 2007

A Joke in Diogenes Laertius

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From Diogenes Laertius VI.40 : Plato defined man as a featherless biped [ Statesman 266e ], and was much applauded [for that]. [Diogenes h...
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Monday, March 05, 2007

Functions and purposes

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Among some commentators (e.g. Zuckert 2000 , pp. 71-72) it has sometimes been argued that the difference between the Socratic and the Eleati...
Thursday, March 01, 2007

One, two, or three?

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One of the most interesting moments in the prologue to the Sophist occurs after Socrates asks the Eleatic Stranger whether sophist, statesm...
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Images I

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The question of images is central to the interpretation of the Sophist , as I indicated earlier . Indeed much of the dialogue is concerned w...

Theodorus' judgement and the art of measure

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I mentioned earlier that we can see a tension between Socrates and Theodorus in the dialogues of the trilogy. Socrates and Theodorus, despi...

The Charge Against Socrates

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I mentioned earlier that the Sophist and the Statesman can be understood as a sort of philosophical trial of Socrates. But what is the ...

Socrates' awe and the Stranger's awe

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I earlier posted about the Stranger's αἰδώς (shame or awe) on responding to Socrates' request that he use a vaguely "Socratic...
Saturday, February 24, 2007

Socrates' trial and the Eleatic Stranger

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The Sophist and the Statesman seem to present themselves as a kind of philosophical trial of Socrates (see Cropsey 1995 ; Friedländer 196...
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

The Stranger's Shame and the dialogic character of the Sophist

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The typical view of the dramatic character of the "late" dialogues of Plato (like the Sophist ) is that they don't have any. T...

Missing dialogues

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It is an interesting factoid that Plato appears to have written two "incomplete" trilogies: the Timaeus , Critias , and "Herm...

The Theaetetus and the Eleatic Dialogues

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Are the Theaetetus and the Eleatic dialogues of Plato (the Sophist and the Statesman ) dramatically connected? The usual answer is yes - t...