Q:”WHAT’S PLATONIC PHILOSOPHY?” (first attempt) (pretty close) A: (a) referring

Q:”WHAT’S PLATONIC PHILOSOPHY?”

(first attempt) (pretty close)

A: (a) referring to (supplying information by) the extra-natural (a subset of the supernatural) in a justificationary argument – and specifically, references to extra normal ideals – instead of limiting references to the existential. More generally, (b) Plato and Socrates were literary (analogistic) philosophers producing dialogs. Aristotle was a descriptive (correspondent) philosopher. Plato invoked order (decidability) provided by the extra-natural, as a compromise means of avoiding the supernatural. (This appears to have been the greek innovation over the flood river authoritarian civilizations.) In other words plato conflated the mythical, literary, and rational, to produce authoritative arguments as a means of avoiding the mythical and supernatural authoritarianism of the theologists.

In the ancient world we saw another instance of the deflationary division so common in western civilization: the separation of decidability into a) law, b) science (aristotelian descriptive philosophy), c) literary envisionary philosophy and it’s companion history, d) platonic philosophy conflating a limited supernaturalism and literary philosophy, e) the continuation of theology: the conflation of law and supernatural mythology, and f) the Augustinian conflation of reason and theology. And all these ‘languages’ or ‘techniques’ persisted through the centuries.

The Anglos preserve aristotelianism, the french literary(rousseau), the germans have preserved platonism (kant et al). and the jews have conflated law, and pseudoscience, as a replacement for law and supernaturalism.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine