Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · _intake0.955

   > what philosophers have tried to do for the past 2,000 years which is why this question never really gets answered roughly from Plato onward philosophers have always tried to ground being in

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/godhead/007-what-philosophers-have-tried-to-do-for-the-past-2-000-years-.md

2. 02 · blog0.767

   There was a disputed question in the dialectic of Damian’s time which dealt with these kinds of queries. The root of the question is Aristotle’s discussion of singular future statements in De interpretatione 9 which the eleventh-century dialecticians read in Boethius’s Latin translation. They also knew what Boethius said about the theme in his two commentaries to De interpretatione and in Philosophiae consolatio . These works provide the background for the question that Damian refers to, but the formulation which Damian knows appears to be of early medieval invention (see Holopainen 1999, 230–…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/peter-damian.md

3. 03 · gutenberg0.766

   There are few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been expected, or more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the most important subjects still lingers, than the little progress which has been made in the decision of the controversy respecting the criterion of right and wrong. From the dawn of philosophy, the question concerning the _summum bonum_, or, what is the same thing, concerning the foundation of morality, has been accounted the main problem in speculative thought, has occupied the most gifte…

   gutenberg/PG-11224-utilitarianism/PG-11224.txt

4. 04 · yt0.761

   Well, I I don't know if what I'm going to say is directly relevant to the point you just made, but it seems to me it is necessary to distinguish between two situations uh or two levels of education. There's first of all a level of education for everyone. And it involves, as I said before, that the young person is uh somehow guided into respecting certain values and uh accepting certain basic truths or perhaps not absolute truth, but something a little less than that, but truth not nonetheless. And it is already on this primary level of education that I feel our civilization has completely fail…

   yt/1Lm3y_4a--0-wolfgang-smith-and-john-vervaeke-the-perpetual-promise-inexh/transcript.txt

5. 05 · blog0.760

   The following reconstruction assumes that, in addition to (I) and (II), the argument rests on a couple of further principles, which might have been generally taken to be valid and thus not worth mentioning, or else which might have been generally accepted by the Stoics and for this reason omitted by Epictetus. The first additional principle is (V) If something is the case now, then it has always been the case that it will be the case. For instance, if I am in Athens now, then it has always in the past been the case that I would be in Athens (at some time). This principle gains historical plaus…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/dialectical-school.md

6. 06 · yt0.759

   So it tends to reinforce itself very badly. And sometimes you see this in bureaucracies where they make a decision we're going to do X. After a while it becomes obvious that X didn't work. But instead of saying oh we made a mistake let's try Y. They just say we haven't done enough of X yet. This is the world we now live in. the question over here. >> You mentioned your friend Richard Tarnes and I would like to mention another historian of ideas, Steven >> Grow Krueger. >> They represent some kind of two opposite views on where philosophy is today. Who is the go-to philosopher…

   yt/FOsX666lCPk-how-left-brain-thinking-is-killing-civilization-dr-iain-mcgi/transcript.txt

7. 07 · yt0.755

   What they were saying is it has to be based on certain values, behaviors that contribute to your own goodness, but also to those of others. We do not live as isolated automatons. We live in a social situation, and in that, we find our fulfillment. Now, you may query how it is that philosophers still draw inspiration from ancient texts, from, like, Plato's dialogues, which I've just been discussing with you, and indeed, what started out as Aristotle's notes about which these female philosophers based themselves, and Drury discussed this practice explicitly in his letters, and he found his answe…

   yt/y1kafU4oODc-wittgenstein-drury-the-philosopher-and-the-psychiatrist/transcript.txt

8. 08 · blog0.750

   He does think this, as far as it goes, but he also maintains, more instructively, that we can be led astray by the terms within which philosophical problems are bequeathed to us. Very often, the puzzles confronting us were given crisp formulations by earlier thinkers and we find them puzzling precisely for that reason. Equally often, however, if we reflect upon the terms within which the puzzles are cast, we find a way forward; when a formulation of a puzzle betrays an untenable structuring assumption, a solution naturally commends itself. This is why in more abstract domains of inquiry we are…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/aristotle.md

9. 09 · blog0.748

   Both strands of the tradition can be reconciled, if we suppose that Plato’s first visit to Italy and Sicily was at least in part motivated by his desire to meet Archytas, as the first tradition claims, but that he sought Archytas out not as a new “model philosopher” but rather as an expert in the mathematical sciences, in which Plato had developed a deep interest. In Republic VII, Plato is critical of Pythagorean harmonics and of current work in solid geometry on philosophical grounds, so that, while he undoubtedly learned a considerable amount of mathematics from Archytas and important passag…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/archytas.md

10. 10 · blog0.748

    Insofar as it is, one might think that the Socratic roots of ancient skepticism lead one toward a kind of limited, wholly moral skepticism. However, Socrates’ examinations are not confined to value questions. While ethical questions may be the starting-point, they immediately lead to questions about the soul, the gods, knowledge, and so on. For Socrates and his Hellenistic followers, value questions cannot be insulated from questions of psychology, physics, and epistemology. Another strand of skeptical thought begins with questions about the nature of philosophical investigation. In the Meno ,…

    blog/plato-stanford-edu/ancient-skepticism.md