for class, 1-22-97
Dr. Cynthia Freeland, 743-2993, cfreeland@uh.edu, 402 AH
Topics for discussion:
Epistemic and ontological correlates in Republic V-VI
Plato's attack on poetry and images in Republic X
Images and false statement in the Sophist
Plato on Heraclitean flux (+ Protagorean skepticism) in the Theaetetus
The Five "Greatest Kinds" in the Sophist
Two views on the "aeon" of the Forms (cf. Whittaker article)
Topics for discussion:
Anticipation of readings on gender and value in Plato (for two weeks hence)
What they are before they are organized by the Demiurge
Cf. M-L Gill, R. Mohr: issues of flux, substance, and identification
Details of the geometrical analysis (See illustrations provided by S. Marc Cohen, University of Washington, at his web page on the Timaeus: here.)