James Devone wrote:
Plato's "totalitarianism" really only applies --to the extent that it really does -- to the Guardians (who are brainwashed, lack individual property, control over who they marry, etc.)...
So, you regard Socrates' prescriptions--equality between the
sexes, abolition
of private property and the patriarchal family, higher education,
etc.--as prescriptions for *totalitarianism*?
Shane Mage
"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.
"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that
all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true."
(N. Weiner)
