From socrates@greekphilosophy.com Thu Sep 14 20:19:33 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id UAA116694 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:19:32 -0700 Received: from omta01.mta.everyone.net (sitemail.everyone.net [216.200.145.35]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id UAA04053 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:19:31 -0700 Received: from sitemail.everyone.net (reports [216.200.145.62]) by omta01.mta.everyone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E97140AC for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 19:25:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by sitemail.everyone.net (Postfix, from userid 99) id 3C0CF2740; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 19:25:33 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_968984733-11231-0" Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.117) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 19:25:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Sotiris Sotiropoulos To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Gorgias 458a 2 Reply-To: socrates@greekphilosophy.com X-Originating-Ip: [130.63.219.229] Message-Id: <20000915022533.3C0CF2740@sitemail.everyone.net> This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_968984733-11231-0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable SOCRATES: "...And what kind of man am I? One of those who would be pleased= to be refuted if I say anything untrue, and who would be pleased to refute= anyone who says anything untrue; one who, however, wouldn't be any less pl= eased to be refuted than to refute. For I count being refuted a greater go= od, insofar as it is a greater good for oneself to be delivered from the wo= rst thing there is than to deliver someone else from it."=0D =0D Now, I know the Gorgias is a Late Period Platonic text, but I think this is= one shining instance of the true figure of Socrates speaking through Plato= 's stylus. Of course, I'm probably wrong, but heck, Gregory Vlastos made a= career of such surmisings. =0D =0D Eu Zhn Pantes,=0D =0D Sotiris Sotiropoulos =0D =0D =3D=3D It's all Greek Philosophy to me!=0D http://www.greekphilosophy.com _____________________________________________________________ Know Thyself! =0D Who are you@greekphilosophy.com? =0D Click on the link for your own email address at: http://www.greekphilosophy= ..com ------------=_968984733-11231-0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.117) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:37:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Sotiris Sotiropoulos To: classics Subject: Gorgias 458a 2 Reply-To: socrates@greekphilosophy.com X-Originating-Ip: [130.63.186.27] SOCRATES: "...And what kind of man am I? One of those who would be pleased to be refuted if I say anything untrue, and who would be pleased to refute anyone who says anything untrue; one who, however, wouldn't be any less pleased to be refuted than to refute. For I count being refuted a greater good, insofar as it is a greater good for oneself to be delivered from the worst thing there is than to deliver someone else from it." Now, I know the Gorgias is a Late Period Platonic text, but I think this is one shining instance of the true figure of Socrates speaking through Plato's stylus. Of course, I'm probably wrong, but heck, Vlastos made a career of such surmisings. Eu Zhn Pantes, Sotiris Sotiropoulos == It's all Greek Philosophy to me! http://www.greekphilosophy.com _____________________________________________________________ Who are you@greekphilosophy.com? http://www.greekphilosophy.com ------------=_968984733-11231-0-- .