Time for the pervMedia crowd to review Plato…I do believe he has favorable ratings.

May 24, 2009 | Posted by admin

A second difficulty is said to lie in the distinction drawn between exoteric and esoteric philosophy. Tennemann (Vol. II. p. 220) says: “Plato exercised the right, which is conceded to every thinker, of communicating only so much of his discoveries as he thought good, and of so doing only to those whom he credited with capacity to receive it. Aristotle, too, had an esoteric and an exoteric philosophy, but with this difference, that in his case the distinction was merely formal, while with Plato it was also material!” How nonsensical! This would appear as if the philosopher kept possession of his thoughts in the same way as of his external goods : the philosophic Idea is, however, something utterly different, and instead of being possessed by, it possesses a man. When philosophers discourse on philosophic subjects, they follow of necessity the course of their ideas; they cannot keep them in their pockets; and when one man speaks to another, if his words have any meaning at all, they must contain the idea present to him. It is easy enough to hand over an external possession, but the communication of ideas requires a certain skill; there is always something esoteric in this, something more than the merely exoteric. This difficulty is therefore trifling.

RESPONSE from Beyondpuke.

Now I ask you, why can’t we expect the same from the “sanctimonyious” Journalists. I don’t think they would wish to debate Plato…can you imagine the Teleprompter getting in the way…..

We are a lost civilization. Can’t even find our ownselves or life’s meaning to which we would all benefit from knowing.