Date: 2023-03-03 02:27 pm (UTC)
sdi: Oil painting of the Heliconian Muse whispering inspiration to Hesiod. (0)
From: [personal profile] sdi
Perhaps so! But I hate to think that I can accomplish in six months of part-time effort what these three could not in thirty years of full-time effort... much more likely, one should think, that I'm barking up the wrong tree. After all, I'm conditioned to thinking that if one honestly seeks, they find—certainly, that's been my experience! So does that mean only ~25% are being honest about their seeking?

(...I will note that John Dillon recently retired from his professorship and has been writing novels about the sexual escapades of recent university graduates, so one might be justified in thinking that his heart wasn't really into Plato...)

Still, your point is taken. I suppose if there's anything to come out of this, it's that I've ordered myself a hardcopy of Taylor's translation of Plotinus...
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