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A Summary Guide to Philosophical Taxonomy
Why bother? Mostly for efficiently organizing bookshelves and folders. To be clear, I don’t understand this sort of thing to hold any deep or critical significance: for me, it’s strictly the sort of thing we refer to in order to avoid organizational confusion. By my reckoning a fairly trivial all things considered so arguing about…
Intro to Philosophy First
Kinda random but I’ve been reflecting on a typical conversation I run into online a lot in recent years which troubles me… A top-down analysis only works well if the top concepts can be codified into a coherent understanding of the bottom concepts. Example: Let’s suppose a dog is a domesticated carnivorous mammal that typically…
A Few Menexenus Notes
Lines 234a – 249e Bio info from The People of Plato A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics by Debra Nails (2002) Hackett Publishing. Antiphon of Rhamnous, son of Sophiluslived ±479–411; student of, or influenced by, Gorgias; teacher of Thucydides; oligarchic leader, sophist, and rhetorician. Archinus of Coeleactive ±405–399; rhetorician, politician, and general. Aspasia of…
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A Name And A Place 