Rosa Lichtenstein

Do you know of any good philosophical journals that post articles for free online?

Ok. Well thanks for posting it out there anyway.

Anyway, this is a random passage in a Plato text (Meno) recently that I thought perhaps shows Plato/Socrates running into the limits of their own metaphysical misuse of language. Sadly, Socrates' response to this was the theory of knowledge as recollection.

If you think of this as applying to metaphysical "inquiry" or search for truth:
"A man cannot search either for what he knows or for what he does not know. He cannot search for what he knows -- since he knows it, there is no need to search -- nor for what he does not know, for he does not know what to look for."
- Plato

It seems to me that if that is true then there goes the foundation of metaphysics, and but empiric knowledge would be left.

Hello, I've been reading through some of your essays and it's very helpful stuff. While informative it is also extremely interesting. Have you every considered publishing a book with any of this material?

I should have guessed on the dissertation. And its no problem!

I have a very random question. What university did you study at for your graduate work? And what was your dissertation on?

I'm not being too hard on myself. Just honest about my lack of philosophical education so far. I aim to get much better and the only way is through good old practice.

And a superior understanding of the material. Some of my arguements are really weak.

I can now see exactly why you walk in to arguments with dialectians with your shotgun out and firing. How you have been able to do this for as long as you have without going insane is beyond me.