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Re:Death by maurycy on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @11:05AM (#281513)
You're comparing oranges to apples, and depreciating philosophy, which is more science than art. No one seriously discusses papers of guys who believed odd scientific theories from XVI.
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Re:Death by river_styx on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @03:22PM (#281897)
My point is that, even if you dismiss those works as having little scientific value, they have great literary value as well.
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Re:Death by maurycy on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @05:20PM (#282057)
So, their place would be in the literature courses, not philosophy ones.
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Re:Death by river_styx on Wednesday August 20, 2008 @05:37PM (#282068)
You're still not getting it. What I'm saying is that Plato's works have both philosophical and literary value. Even if you dispute the first, there is still the second. I'm not sure why this is would mean moving them from philosophy to literature courses (or why those should be mutually exclusive in the first place).
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