Eskil here is obviously right. If you've ever read any of the "postmodern" folks and not thought that these were people obsessed with inheriting the legacy of the West then you are delusional.https://twitter.com/EskilAndersen1/status/1235905344632688643 …
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I have no patience for people who think philosophy is some sort of folk wisdom tradition handing down common sense and respect for tradition. Aristotle famously tells a story of Plato giving a talk advertised to be about the good life in the agora...
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Everyone who came thought he would give some sort of wise pronouncements on one or another acknowledged life being good, providing some sort of prudential advice. The entire lecture was on mathematics. Everyone left by the end.
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Replying to @AlldrittOwen
Giovanni Reale has a book which is a reconstruction of Plato's lecture on the good, assembling together evidences collected from his students and later commentators. Absolutely amazing book.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
Reza, I know this because I wrote that paper about your reconstruction of Plato.
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That paper you should send me soon? ;)
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