From: Jacques Du Pasquier (jacques@dtext.com)
Date: Wed Feb 27 2002 - 03:22:58 MST
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote (26.2.2002/19:09) :
> neptune@mars.superlink.net wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:11:54PM +0100, Jacques Du Pasquier wrote:
> > >
> > > Plato's ideas (whether he invented them or rather crystalized them)
> > > for example were a great support for the development of Christianity.
> > > Can you imagine Plato without writing? In fact can you imagine
> > > philosophizing (for best and worse) without writing?
> >
> > Oh, that's very hard to imagine! Let's see... Socrates!
>
> Good point. If that's a cause-and-effect relation there, then I'd have to
> say the development of writing may have permanently crippled the development
> of philosophy.
>
> (Socrates: ****; Plato: *)
This like admiring a character in a novel, and finding him very
intelligent, but despising the author of the novel, and thinking he's
an idiot.
Jacques
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