analytical philosophy

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 12/15/00 04:53PM >>>
Well if the stories are correct, Socrates accepted the death sentence of a
democratic regime and argued at great length that it would be wrong for him
not to accept the penalty.. He disobeyed orders from both a democratic and
an oligarchic regime when his little voice told him the order was immoral.
You do things because they are right not because they are associated with
democrats or oligarchs. Certainly Plato did not support democracy but
neither did he support authoritarianism per se but rulers who ruled in the
interests of the ruled.

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CB: Sounds like Plato was aiming at Aristotle's golden mean.

Which side are you on, which side are you  on. They say in Harlan County, there are no neutrals here...


      Cheers, Ken Hanly
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Brown <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 3:17 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:6233] RE: analytical philosophy


> 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 >>>
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> > >>> seamus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 12/14/00 07:39PM >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > ((((((((((
> >
> > CB: Turns out Socrates and Plato supported the dictators/authoritarians
> >
> > http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/essays/ifstoneonsocrates.html
> ************
>
> 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?
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>