Sarah DalLook at these happy guys
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Former chutney-lid jar-screwer.
Philosophy PhD and teacher, but don't hold your breath for sophisticated expression or profound contributions to thought.
Dundee, Scotland
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CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology@bonshui Hopefully someone better informed will reply, but the first name that comes to mind is Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley who moved to Rhode Island in 1728 and lived there for four years. @philosophy
@philosophy Who was the earliest British philosopher lknown to have visited America?
@philosophy can anyone recommend readings in aesthetics which deal with taste (i.e. the sensory experience of tasting, rather than 'taste' qua preference) as an aesthetic phenomenon?
I read once that #karlmarx had intended to travel on the train that was involved in the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1889, but (obviously) never took the journey. I wish there were some truth to the rumour, but sadly I think there is not a scrap of truth. Has anyone else heard this rumour, and if so what is its source? (It's unlikely to be the kind of thing that I would simply have imagined!)
Krishna Del TosoHi! You may be interested in giving a look to Menahem Stern's "Greek and Latin authors on Jews and Judaism" (vol. 1), where there's no mention of Plato.
According to Margaret Barker's "Temple Theology: an Introduction" though, Plato's "Timaeus" contains indirect references (through Pythagoras) to what she calls "Temple theology", of Jewish origin.
Here her arguments in a nutshell: http://www.margaretbarker.com/Temple/default.htm
@philosophy Are there any references (no matter how oblique) to Jews in Plato?
My reasoning is as follows:
We can substitute "ignored" for "trivialised"
Thus
"No head injury is too trivial to be ignored."
becomes
"No head injury is too trivial to be trivialised."
and exhibits the same absurdity as
"No vase is too breakable to be broken."
"No human is too mortal to die."
(or, "No vampire is too immortal to live forever!")
Am I correct?