Somebody has started a new blog devoted to the religious left. Of course, my personal thinking tends to be the less religion, the better, but politics does require compromise. If people are going to identify religion with values (and, sadly, I can't force them all to read Euthyphro, much less re-read it until they understand it), it's probably necessary to point out that religion isn't always on the side of the conservatives.
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I love Euthyphro and Plato in general.
Posted by: Peggy | September 24, 2005 at 07:24 PM
Is it true that Quine never read Plato? I cannot help but feel that analytic philosophy uses Plato and Aristotle to confer a dubious veneer of antiquity that is neither relevant nor decorous.
Posted by: MikeS | October 03, 2005 at 07:33 PM
It seems quite unlikely to me that Quine never read Plato, though I'm not an expert on his biography. However, I would be inclined to say that analytic philosophy is if anything the opposite of what you suggest; we don't try enough to understand our history, and have an unseemly tendency to pretend our theories are more novel than they are.
Posted by: Aaron Boyden | October 05, 2005 at 05:19 PM