At least I'm lucid and capable of constructing intelligible sentences.Even if that it so it only puts him in the same category as you.
drowden wrote:Dean,
Why the hell did you post Kevin Sowlay's email address? What was the point of that?
Dan Rowden
teslacoils2006 wrote:http://www.users.bigpond.com/drowden/issue1.html
paindrowden wrote:Dean,
Why the hell did you post Kevin Sowlay's email address? What was the point of that?
Dan Rowden
Pye wrote:.
There are deeper points here, deeper beliefs. One among others is Socrates' belief in all knowledge being already contained in every person. The dialectic is what brings it out. Plato has Socrates saying that educators do not put knowledge into people, but rather pull it out of them, and this speaks to the Socratic belief in the veracity and integrity of human reason, properly directing its gaze. The dialectic is the highest activity of the mind, and it is not restricted to people talking together. This dialectic happens in the mind of the thinker alone, as well, whenever it is posing and examining its thinking. The dialectic is the set of stairs built by questions and answers -- meant to rise. For Plato, it meant the only access to anything metaphysical, the only legitimate "eye" through which to see.
Socratic dialectic extrudes the field and tools of inquiry to the operations of the mind alone, and just as it assumes people have varying degrees of capabilities, so too does it assume that natural geometry can be brought out in an uneducated slave. If individual capabilities, then a unified and singular truth, to which men and women of reason -- properly educated, properly encouraged, respected and indulged, would all arrive to the same conclusion of what is most reasonable in any given case. The dialectic was for Socrates the only possible way to the truth - privately or collectively.
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suergaz wrote:Telsacoils, why do you think Socrates did not believe in the veracity and integrity of human reason? Was it the way he died?
Why should I trust you more than I trust freemasons? What is a moral playing field?
teslacoils2006 wrote:oh good you just revealedyour weakness
now I can sell you the brook yn bridge on sale now for ten thousand...
Why should I trust you more than I trust freemasons? What is a moral playing field?
A lot of tricks in arguments moral playing field means you can not use them. So you can not put words in my mouth and argue against yourself.
I simply dissagree that socrates believed every person had the truth within them. The statement would be against dialectic reasoning.
[Socrates speaking] "But anyone with any sense", I said, "will remember that the eyes may be unsighted in two ways, by a transition either from light to darkness or darkness to light, and will recognize that the same thing applies to the mind. So when he sees a mind confused and unable to see clearly he will not laugh without thinking, but will ask himself whether it has come from a clearer world and is confused by the unaccustomed darkness, or whether it is dazzled by the stronger light of the clearer world to which it has escaped from its previous ignorance. The first condition of life is a reason for congratulation, the second for sympathy, though if one wants to laugh at it one can do so with less absurdity than at the mind that has descended from the daylight of the upper world."
"You put it very reasonably." [Glaucon]
"If this is true," I continued, "we must reject the conception of education professed by those who say that they can put into the mind knowledge that was not there before -- rather as if they could put sight into blind eyes."
"It's a claim that is certainly made," he said.
"But our argument indicates that the capacity for knowledge is innate in each man's mind, and that the organ by which he learns is like an eye which cannot be turned from darkness to light unless the whole body is turned . . ."
Plato The Republic
Part Seven -- The Philosopher Ruler
Book Seven -- "The Simile of the Cave"
Trans. Desmond Lee
Penguin, 1987
suergaz wrote:The reason I asked was because you said to Pye "He believed in no such thing". The only place Pye mentioned belief was "Socratic belief in the veracity and integrity of human reason..."
You then write:
"I simply dissagree that socrates believed every person had the truth within them. The statement would be against dialectic reasoning."
Ok, though you can see why I asked. I think we should be clear.
For instance, I do not believe in god or satan. I am not politically active. I trust you as far as you are willing to make sense to me.
teslacoils2006 wrote:I seen a child of eight years old with no disabilities crap his pants. He simply found it easier than to run and use the toilet. His mother failed to potty train him and there was no insidE information within him to correct the issue. It took years of training and psychologistssuergaz wrote:The reason I asked was because you said to Pye "He believed in no such thing". The only place Pye mentioned belief was "Socratic belief in the veracity and integrity of human reason..."
You then write:
"I simply dissagree that socrates believed every person had the truth within them. The statement would be against dialectic reasoning."
Ok, though you can see why I asked. I think we should be clear.
For instance, I do not believe in god or satan. I am not politically active. I trust you as far as you are willing to make sense to me.
you are forcing your own religion into dialectic reason.
Socrates is not talking about mystical knowledge within the body
he is simply argueing the fact that without the experience in real life meaning whole body interaction with life you can not learn what you can not see.
Dialectical reasoning is an aggreed governance to keep the conversation true.
suergaz wrote:If all you're after is the destruction of the oligarchy, then I can only say it occurs naturally, just as its overall occurrence is entirely natural also. Inevitability.
If my life, as you've said, is in danger, that I am sentenced to death by babylonians, and yourself also, then what's to lose in telling the real story of the dollar bill?
teslacoils2006 wrote:real story of the dollar bill? I am interested go on.....suergaz wrote:If all you're after is the destruction of the oligarchy, then I can only say it occurs naturally, just as its overall occurrence is entirely natural also. Inevitability.
If my life, as you've said, is in danger, that I am sentenced to death by babylonians, and yourself also, then what's to lose in telling the real story of the dollar bill?
Pye wrote:.
teslacoils, is your understanding of Socratic Dialectic grounded in reading Plato or Wikpedia?
I should know, because I think I am arguing with the characterization in the Wikpedia entry, and you seem to keep defending this one point in it that the dialectic has to happen between two people for moral reasons. It can and does. But dialectical reasoning is the same thing you use when you think. Your singular thinking takes on this form as well, if it intends to seek and discover.
teslacoils:you are forcing your own religion into dialectic reason.
See, here is where the dialectic between you and I has already been malfunctioning. You presented an article that explains what Socratic dialectic is. I responded with the beliefs -- Socrates's!! -- upon which I estimate he grounds this idea upon, because I found the article 1. not of depth and inclusive of this, 2. hence not entirely accurate [to my understanding of Socrates]. I have not made a personal value statement on any of what Socrates is saying yet. I am still working with my understanding of it --we ought to be working on our understanding of it, dialectically speaking.
In an effort to move that along, I provide you an excerpt in defense of my initial characterization of the beliefs behind Socratic Dialectic.
Socratic Dialectic will indeed do as you say among two people, Socrates indeed employed it, and Socrates is indeed all about the moral and the virtuous in anything (the Form of the Good); the governance not just of debate, but the State. But intelligence itself is dialectical, and a thinker, a philosopher, uses the same high-process of reasoning when thinking alone. Socrates speaks of this aspect of dialectical reasoning copiously enough in "The Divided Line" from the Republic; it is the occupation of his philosophers: to think dialectically. It's the only way to the truth. Dialectical reasoning is not just a social phenomenon.
teslacoils:Socrates is not talking about mystical knowledge within the body
was I? Yet again, the Socratic notion of Ideas/Forms in residence, so to speak, in the metaphysical world and only accessible through the mind [exeunt Socrates] sounds pretty bloody-well mystical to me <<< and that was my negative opinion of this, his idea. (First part of this paragraph was his thinking/second part mine, okay?)
teslacoils:he is simply argueing the fact that without the experience in real life meaning whole body interaction with life you can not learn what you can not see.
There is just simply no way you can be a deep reader of Plato's dialogues themselves if you are presenting Socrates as an empiricist, which is what you do here when you when you claim he'd say you have to see something to know it. Socrates is a rationalist thinker through and through, and this means that knowledge is not seen in the visible world at all, but thought about (through dialectical reasoning!) in the mind. The only way your "see" is going to work is if you do like Socrates and distinguish the physical eye from the mind's eye. It is only the mind's eye that can truly see. The physical eye (according to Socrates) is stuck with viewing the physical world -- the "twilight world of change and decay." Won't find anything lasting (true) there, according to Socrates.
teslacoilsDialectical reasoning is an aggreed governance to keep the conversation true.
It is to keep thinking true, too, which is my original disagreement with the article you posted as being depthless and hence not entirely accurate. You're not doing much better, either -- my opinion, of course.
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