"[T]hey say Thales was studying the stars... and gazing aloft, when he fell into a well; and a witty and amusing Thracian servant-girl made fun of him because, she said, he was wild to know about what was up in the sky but failed to see what was in front of him and under his feet. The same joke applies to all who spend their lives in philosophy."[1]
This blog will be dedicated to the pursuit of looking aloft and will avoid discussion of what is at our feet.
[1] Plato, Theaetetus, trans. M.J. Levett, rev. Myles F. Burnyeat, from Plato: Complete Works ed. John M. Cooper, Hackett: Indianapolis, IN, 1997., 174a.
2 comments:
Man, I am soo so jealous. How often do you sit in on the seminar? Are you taking good notes? Can I have scans of them?
Looks like there's good reason why Frede spent a week discussing the name: Theaetetus = Theos + aiteo = "Asked of the god(s)."
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