The attitude reminds me of Callicles contra Socrates in *Gorgias*: "Philosophy's all well and good when you're young, but anyone who continues to do it after that deserves a beating!"
I am not interested in this conversation anymore, thank you. I tried discussing it. It was pointless & frustrating as I was warned it would be. I don't want to do it again. But thank you.
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You're welcome. I won't hide my disappointment. I thought we could have a lively and informed debate about things that we both care a great deal about. But I linked you to the essay I wrote for
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I am all Plato'd out, tbh. I find your approach very tedious indeed. Please link the essay again. I seem to have lost it.
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There's no Platonism in the first part (of either of my recent braces for
@QuilletteM). And it is the first part that criticizes your approach, so perhaps you will be spared the worst of my tedium:http://quillette.com/2017/12/07/impasse-modernism-postmodernism/ … -
I can't see how it addresses our argument, tbh. Just some rather facile definitions of modernism.
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It presents some criticisms of modernism. Some are postmodern, some are Darwinian. I advanced them all as sound. I would think a champion of modernism would want to rebut them. That's why I thought we could have a lively and informed debate.
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Thank you but I don't find this at all interesting.
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You don't find (friendly) criticisms of your approach at all interesting? In case it wasn't clear from my recent
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Not at all interesting, no. I don't doubt the friendliness. I'll leave you to rebut sound criticisms of philosophical underpinnings and we can perhaps defend the same values together in future without either of us being bored to tears by the other's thinking around them?
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