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Originally Posted by TimMason
She says "No way."
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Originally Posted by TimMason
I guess you can summon imaginary others to *any* conversation. What would Aristotle say about the mess in the Gulf of Mexico? How would you teach Plato to ride a bike? And so you could project rules about how oil companies should behave, or about how to push the pedal with your foot rather than your hand, that would be clear to a Greek philosopher. But these are imaginary situations. Their universal nature depends on a whole series of 'What if ...' suppositions - including your being able to speak Attic Greek. My wife can: I'll ask her to write out a road bike manual for Greek philosophers.
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I'm having problems with the definition of "local" too.
I think by "local" you are intending to say the effects of the conversation are limited to the participants of that conversation. This seems correct to me.
Would you agree that reading Plato & Aristotle affects our understanding and brings them into our conversation?
Or would you say that the limited, one-way communications channel precludes the possibility of "conversation" thus they have no impact on our morality?
Troy