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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (46655)	2/25/2004 4:54:56 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

It Ain't Just "Phi-Loose-ophy": Re: And after more than two thousand years the same discussions continue, philosophers are still ranged under the same contending banners, and neither thinkers nor mankind at large seem nearer to being unanimous on the subject, than when the youth Socrates listened to the old Protagoras, and asserted (if Plato's dialogue be grounded on a real conversation) the theory of utilitarianism against the popular morality of the so-called sophist. One of the great indictments of "western" education that I have is that while I may have been introduced to the name Socrates at the age of 11, I wasn't actually introduced to his argument until last year, when I was four.one decades older. The propagandists in America have been brilliant at hiding the democratic debate that has been going on for the last 23 centuries. They only allow us a glimpse. A mere glimmer of what it was that caused Galileo Galilee to be ostacized for proposing that the Earth revolved around the Sun. Or what is was about the idiot Athenian population that caused them to cast the black stones that caused the suicide of the man who was leading them to the truth. Human beings have always been fools. You, of course, may not recognize this Maurice. But we, as a species have always shot the messenger. Socrates? Killed by his peers. Galileo? Ostracized into a living death. Et tu, Maurice? Are you a Brutus, do you rail against populi like me and Julius Caesar who request that slave laborers ought to enjoy at least 1/3 of the fruits of their labors? I fear so. You seem far more a partisan of Brutus than of Caesar. Can you prove me wrong? tinyurl.com