Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 10:42:34 +0200
From: Rene de Bakker <rbakker-AT-bs18.bs.uva.nl>
Subject: RE: anybody and philosophy


At 22:04 4-9-01 +0200, you wrote:
>> This experience is the basis of Plato and Aristoteles. They turn the
>> experience of aletheia into the concept of the idea or the eidos,
>> transforming an everyday ontical word into an artificial ontological
>> concept.
>
>Plato spoke about ideas as they were things for he missed an adequate
>expression for his ideas. 

Mr. priest,

Without Plato, you couldn't have said this.

r









His disciples would have hardly comprehended
>him if he used a Heidegger-like (supposedly) non-metaphysic language.
>So, he speaks in poetic metaphors, telling stories about things instead
>of introducing people to the pure experience of ideas. Indeed, Sun seen
>by the cave inmate that reaches out is just a thing (formally). Many
>tried to interpret his story to the letter and failed to get its
>(conceptual) meaning. As he pointed, the duty of he who reached light is
>to leave light and return to darkness. To start a heavenly fire before
>his fellow inmates. To burn them ruthlessly, maybe the gods will accept
>this time his offer. To be consumed by this fire, as Prometheus was.
>
>Become what you are!
> 
>Jethro, Priest of On
> 
>
>
>Intellect Club mailgroup at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Intellect_Club
>

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