Re: virus: Re: Rationality (meme make-up)
Kirt A. Dankmyer -- aka Loki (dankmyka@wfu.edu)
Tue, 18 Mar 1997 09:16:31 -0500
>Question is: Do you know before hand where Socrates is leading Plato?
>Does Plato initially know where Socrates is leading him? Thing is,
>it may seem obvious after the fact ("Hindsight is always 20-20" - Megadeth),
>but Plato probably didn't know where he was being led until he got
>there.
Sometimes, yes. I'm just voicing my scepticism that the characters in
Plato's dialogues would be as clueless as he makes them. There's a strong
straw-man element to some of them.
-Loki
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