@@> On Apr-19-98 Day Brown wrote to David Martorana
 @@> on  "Revealing Truth"
 
 DM> It is unclear that purity of truth has any epic good effect...
 
 DB> Well sure; but religion has always wrestled with which lessons an
 DB> ignorant population could absorb, and generally chosen the lowest
 DB> common denominator to have the highest number of faithful.  There
 DB> is no mandate to do that with philosophy.  Indeed, the criticisms
 DB> I have read of Stoicism was that it only was for an elite with an
 DB> adequate amount of time to study it and the integrity to adopt an
 DB> ethic so high most men could not attain it.  Again, that is not a
 DB> problem for those who choose to make the effort.
 
   Don't be so sure! I'm convinced, as part of an ignorant population,
   that I have multiple hedonist genes (maybe a whole chromosome worth)
   and none at all for stoicism. Nearing the end of a pleasure fractal,
   I'm only as temperate as my circumstantial limits .....and a Sophist
   at heart!                   ..............I don't want to change !!!
 
 DB> Socrates, I believe, showed the value of doubting; thus, contrary
 DB> to standard practice, the young should be taught to doubt, not to
 DB> believe.  Do they *need* a fortress to defend?
 
     The more I pick up about Socrates/Plato, the less I'm sure what
     they meant to mean.   Some MANY have need a fortress to defend,
     some also to hide in. I believe your own focus blanks out a very
     large measure of fragile human qualities ..........perhaps seeing
     yourself as a higher minded standard....... damned Elitist ???
 
                            @@>--- Dave
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