the Joy of Madness
#Thrasyllus #Crito #Heraclides
https://www.ancientmedicine.org/home/2018/4/6/heraclides-of-pontus-on-the-joy-of-madness
“In his book On Pleasure , Heraclides of Pontus relates not unpleasantly that a most pleasant luxury occured during a fit of madness. He writes: ‘Thrasyllus from Aexone, the son of Pythodorus, once went so mad that he thought all the ships arriving at Piraeus were his own. He would regi
I released this episode of Mind & Desire to my paid Substack subscribers a little over a month ago. Now it's available to the public! It discusses some insights Socrates expresses that readers of Plato's Crito might miss
https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/mind-and-desire-episode-6-consistency
#Podcast #Plato #Crito #Expertise #Values #Knowledge
several key points from Plato's dialogue that sometimes get overlooked by readers
I have been thinking a bit about #exile recently. It is pretty incoherent, so I went back to #Plato. I had never appreciated how moving #Socrates' apology is or how politically brilliant, despite his protestations.
I am not much closer to clarifying my thoughts on exile. I still think that the deep stuff in the #Crito is a kind of context principle, an individual is a human only in the context of a polis. Of course, it's the individuals though who determine the value of the collective.
I also noticed, thanks to #Graeber and #Wengrow, that Socrates makes the claim that because Athens has regulated sex, marriage, the family and the education of the young, he is owned in some sense by Athens. In short, care implies ownership which entails the right to domination. Presumably, part of the 'personal is political' critique has this sort of argument in mind, but how is that to be developed?
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Gregory B Sadler
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