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September 11, 2003
Plato
Plato was wrong. Don't ask him about it, though. He'll just tell you that he's merely a corporeal avatar reflecting universal wrongness and is therefore really not wrong, per se. He's just a shitty incantation of wrong--a copy of wrongness that is flawed and therefore must possess some non-wrongness (rightness?). Poor fellow, he can't even get being wrong right. I wonder if he inherited Socrates' lackeys, Glaucon and the rest, after the hemlock incident. I wonder if he made Aristotle do his photocopies and fetch his coffee when he was a TA. I wonder if togas are as comfortable as they look.
Posted by james at September 11, 2003 08:57 PM