@@> "Knowledge is Virtue" ???
 
     The Socratic- "knowledge is virtue", eludes me. I've read
 the supposed extensions of this from Plato's "bringing the three
 part soul into balance = virtuous contentment ....yet nevertheless
 feel it might take another lifetime to fully digest (unless it
 turns out to be untrue or simple and I've overcomplicated it).
 
 As repeated from earlier postings, I *feel* more comfortable
 as per the "greatest good for the greatest number". The
 Utilitarianism of the modern English styles of philosophy seeming
 more to their point and within reach of my own gentle (quantitative)
 hedonism (live and let live with as much fun as can be contained
 within a life's passing). I do not find any clues to life having
 any specific meanings beyond some vague of Nature's agenda and/or
 our silly seeming "hard wired" obsession with an own importance....!
 I do poke about to see where I might be wrong, but none of the
 (importance) arguments stand very tall or attractive when the lights
 are on!
 
 Each of the few philosophers so far examined have had some good
 to adopt into my own thinking; as also some less favorable to be
 rejected.  Whether the ~sunshine thinkers~, the ~grey day boys~,
 or the dark ~nightshade brooders~, they all seem ~some~ right
 when you're reading them (or about them).  You might comment, in
 response, if you think my views reasonable or out of mutual range!
 I often get the awkward impression my ~take~ on things is from an
 alien reality. Though I surmise you do not share my relativistic
 views, I find it perplexing that anyone who thinks on such concerns
 could have any other!
                              !?
                          ... QQ ... Dave
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