RE: analytical philosophy

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It just seemed like you were saying that Socratic types, Platonists, idealists were opponents of authoritarians, a free spirit image that a lot academic types like to project, but which is the opposite of the facts.

CB


>>> seamus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 12/15/00 03:49PM >>>

> >>> seamus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 12/14/00 07:39PM >
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> Too many Socratic personality types running around will make it
> hard for those with authoritarian personality disorder to tell the rest of
> us how to live.
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> ((((((((((
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> CB: Turns out Socrates and Plato supported the dictators/authoritarians
>
> http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/essays/ifstoneonsocrates.html
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I was simply using Socrates as an example of "the unexamined life yaddah
yaddah question everything blah blah." Would you settle for Bertrand
Russell, Herbert Gutman & Rosa Luxemborg?