WM Plato

Here's a permalink to my blog entry for this reading:

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChristopherUlicne//022921.html

Here's the link to my blog entry.
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2008/01/el336_written_vs_oral_word_is.html

“…this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.” (p. 362)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaylaSawyer/2008/01/plato-writing-m.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/DaniellaChoynowski/2008/01/absolute_chairness.html

Here's my quoted passage (since I didn't include it earlier):

"You who are the father of letters ... attribute to them a quality which they cannot have ... The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing ... having the show of wisdom without the reality. (Plato, From Phaedrus)"

Here you go
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RachelPrichard/2008/01/el_336_plato.html

Here you go
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/RachelPrichard/2008/01/el_336_plato.html

"I cannot help feeling, Phaedrus, that writing is unfortunately like painting; for the creations of the painter have the attitude of life, and yet if you ask them a question they preserve a solemn silence," - Socrates, pg 362.


http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeslieRodriguez/022929.html

"I cannot help feeling, Phaedrus, that writing is unfortunately like painting; for the creations of the painter have the attitude of life, and yet if you ask them a question they preserve a solemn silence," - Socrates, pg 362.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/LeslieRodriguez/022929.html

From page 362 of "Writing Material":

"I cannot help feeling, Phaedrus, that writing is unfortunately like painting; for the creations of the painter have the attitude of life, and yet if you ask them a question they preserve a solemn silence...

Well, in the first comment my name links to the entry, but just in case...

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/StormyKnight/022939.html

"..............writing is unfortunately like painting; for the creations of the painter have the attitude of life, and yet if you ask them a question they preserve a solemn silence. And the same may be said of speeches" (Plato. From Phaedrus. p360)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeremyBarrick/2008/01/el336_written_vs_oral_word_is.html

There has to be a better way to post my url but that should link everyone to the right page...i hope.