DM> Just Reread "Ecclesiastes 12" .....and Yes it IS rich in thought
 DM> provoking "getting-old" symbologies (nice senior citizen poem)! Pretty
 DM> much how I'm starting to feel !!!
 DM> The "Preacher's" beware comment on the still unborn Plato:
 DM> "..... My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books
 DM> there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh............"
 DM> Eccl. 12:11
   David, you seem to be assuming that Ecclesiastes was written prior to the
appearance of Plato in the "other" culture.  I believe a considerable
scholarship would place that book quite late in the Hellenistic Age (circa
300-0 (grin) BCE.  The notion of authorship by the historic Solomon isn't, as
far as I know, given much credence except by fundamentalists.  
   That verse you quoted could be matched by some of the writings of our age
of Enlightenment and also by the late third millenium or early second
millenium Egyptian writings you would find in Pritchard's _Ancient Near
Eastern Texts_ (_Song of the Harper_, e.g).  Skepticism, disenchantment,
resignation and nihilism are possibilities in any age where philosophical
moorings of a dominant culture have been lost.  I find much to illustrate 
his
in the writings of Odo Marquard whose little book, _Farewell to Matters of
Principle_ reveals to me a post-World War II unhappiness with traditional
philosophy in the generation that saw the momentary triumph of the ideologues
and the abandonment of the old standards of critique.  I also find much in 
he
little book that is instructive.   Marquard was a student of Blumenberg whose
book, _Work on Myth_ I have been remiss in not finishing even after several
years.  I'm much too eclectic in my reading.  One of my major faults.  I WANT
to see the whole cosmos (grin) and fail to focus enough on the details.  
fter
all (chuckle) you started this mess (chuckle) of confessing sins!!!
   I'm not certain but what there is SOMETHING wrong with Day's virtually
complete enchantment with the Stoics but he is so well read in the classics
that I'm intimidated and unwilling to challenge him on the point.  I note 
hat
Hal exercises less restraint!  We might learn something in the exchange
between those two.  
Sincerely, 
                                     Frank
                                                                              
                                                       
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