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A Noxious 2,400-year old lie, started by Plato, still Cripples us today.
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Posted on 01/18/2010 4:32:02 PM PST by El Gringo
A Noxious 2,400-year old lie, originated by Plato, still cripples us today.
And, once more, Karl R. Popper comes to the rescue.
Popper has examined, in great detail the writings of Plato. He concludes that Plato, and later thinkers and writers that followed Plato have wreaked havoc in science politics and philosophy down through the centuries. Popper presents the following small table of word definitions. The two columns have opposite definitions .i.e., individualism is the opposite of collectivism. Egotism is the opposite of altruism.
Individualism |
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Collectivism |
egotism |
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altruism |
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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: altruism; collectivism; egotism; individualism; myth; plato
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To: cornelis
Cornelis: Looks as though youve been sippin too much
Kool-aid at the Soroz ranch. Popper has long attracted hate-filled, venomous, ad hominem attacks from the intellectual elite. I think the elite took the off-ramp when Popper revealed modern Sociology as a bogus science. He pulled the mask off sociology in his Book, In Search of a Better World, Chapter 5, The Logic of the Social Sciences. The elite also hate Popper for his strong stance against
Relativism. As far as positivism is concerned, forget it. If you had really read any Popper, you would have known he frequently stated he was
not a Positivist. Every now and then, he would write: I am often wrongly called a Positivist. Look at
In Search of a Better World, Chapter 15.
What does the West Believe in?; third paragraph, wherein he flatly states, This means I am a rationalist, and that I believe in Truth and human reason. As a dunce, he went a long way: private correspondence with the leading thinkers of his time; recognition from Parliament (knighted in 1965); hatred by leftists around the globe.
PS: I can only surmise your state of mind after the recent Senatorial election in Massachusets. Have a good day. ----- JWThinkwright
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01/20/2010 8:52:56 AM PST
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El Gringo
(Adelante, con ganas.)
To: El Gringo
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01/20/2010 8:59:32 AM PST
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cornelis
To: cornelis
Re: You don't know me.
It was you who presented the scurrilous, ad hominem attacks on Karl Popper, via a trumped up dialog, presumably between you and “Leo Strauss.” I don't think I need know more.
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01/20/2010 2:29:42 PM PST
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El Gringo
(Adelante, con ganas.)
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