@@> On Apr-8-98 Day Brown wrote to David Martorana
@@> on "Curable Souls"
DM>> ... To start with, did he actually consider the oracle at Delphi
DM>> a legitimate/true source of information?
DB> I dunno; for sure, the Oracle deserves a lotta respect. So far as
DB> I can tell, she was never wrong.
.....Brilliant! ...Reasoned? ...Faith?
DB> ..................................You always got the right answer,
DB> but you did not know the right question until much later. There's
DB> only one reply of hers that I know of which Plato quotes- namely a
DB> statement that Socrates was the wisest of all men. I dunno if she
DB> referred to only living men, or not. If not, there's little doubt
DB> that she was, indeed, correct. Even if you include all men of all
DB> time, you still got a pretty good case.
@@>--- Dave
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