RE THE PROBLEM OF CHANGE TONY BLAIR LET'S JUST CALL IT

The Problem of Protagoras

 

RE THE ENLIGHTENMENT AGE OF THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION

 

Re The Fifth Century Enlightenment, clearly, Plato already saw the problem. He had no good solution for it, and I think he actually knew this at the time. His radical counterrevolutionary and conservative political ideas, and innovations, in The Republic merely fed it.

 

Aristotle sidestepped it while acknowledging it as best he could, it seems to me. He grappled with change, too, in even more general terms. He also knew, in my judgment, that it was insoluble.

 

The problem was still there, whether one held to the Greek gods, or abandoned them, whether one held one view of the physical or metaphysical world, or another.