tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post4515269954374136683..comments2023-11-02T10:22:20.717-04:00Comments on Mike Anderson's Ancient History Blog: The Dreams of AristotleMike Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02072553719998549925noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post-39206201979994857212017-04-17T14:03:56.013-04:002017-04-17T14:03:56.013-04:00No personal opinions. I try to keep myself out of ...No personal opinions. I try to keep myself out of the dialog.Mike Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02072553719998549925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post-19946428484369484612017-04-17T13:48:51.303-04:002017-04-17T13:48:51.303-04:00hello, is this just a summary of the On Prophesyin...hello, is this just a summary of the On Prophesying by Dreams <br /><br />By Aristotle or does it contain any of your personal opinions?<br /><br />Thanks<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post-56815939004243227782010-08-05T17:34:16.356-04:002010-08-05T17:34:16.356-04:00FYI: Over at Dissoi Blogoi, Michael Pakaluk gave a...FYI: Over at Dissoi Blogoi, Michael Pakaluk gave a description of some of the issues that arose during a reading of de somno and de insomniis by a summer seminar at Cambridge in 2005:<br /><br />http://dissoiblogoi.blogspot.com/2005/06/some-issues-from-seminar.html<br /><br /> Vicki: if you are wondering about Aristotle's class-consciousness, I recommend you read his Politics, especially book 1 (the defense of the theory of "natural slavery", but also the extensive discussion in other books of how class relates to democratic theory. A lucid discussion is available in G. E. M. de Ste. Croix's The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World.<br /><br />Monte JohnsonMonte Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05864589932926759166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post-14565567023681716112010-07-18T20:22:35.801-04:002010-07-18T20:22:35.801-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Mike Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02072553719998549925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post-22884523665010175272010-07-18T20:21:59.523-04:002010-07-18T20:21:59.523-04:00Vicki,
Yes this is interesting isn't it. Is t...Vicki,<br /><br />Yes this is interesting isn't it. Is this purposeful bigotry? Hard to say. Perhaps the point is that only thinkers can communicate with the gods because only they know how.Mike Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02072553719998549925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-649431201703508681.post-58526134099361890682010-07-18T15:15:32.102-04:002010-07-18T15:15:32.102-04:00Thanks for the lucid overview. Am a bit shocked to...Thanks for the lucid overview. Am a bit shocked to learn that Aristotle was so rigidly class-conscious. Thus to his mind, aristocrats were the only ones that the gods deigned to communicate with?Vicki Leonhttp://www.vickileon.com/blognoreply@blogger.com