reminder

Posted here a few days ago, but worth repeating a few times…

“You can’t think the unthought while thinking it, and you can’t think the unthought while not thinking it” is essentially the same as what Meno says: “You can’t search for something if you have it, and you can’t search for it if you don’t have it.”

Correlationism wants philosophy to be a wisdom about thinking, when in fact it is a love of wisdom of what lies outside thinking.

“Platonism” has become a standard dismissive term in recent continental thought. But for my part, whenever in doubt about what philosophy is, Socrates is the first one to whom I turn for a reminder.

I’d have to admit that Plato’s dialogues were an acquired taste for me. Although my students are usually guaranteed to love the dialogues, at that age I generally found them pious and boring and never getting to the point. In my thirties I started becoming more appreciative of them, and now I’m at the point of being a rabid fan of Plato.