(urth) started my second read of New Sun

[John Watkins]

Sure, the melting point is Plotinus, right?

By the way, Plantinga is a top-five person I've ever met in terms of
smarts.  Just a really, really keen mind.

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Lane Haygood <lhaygood at gmail.com> wrote:

> The "HTW" or Heaven of the Forms from Plato/neoplatonism and Wolfe's
> good-natured piracy of kabbalistic terminology share a common cultural
> source and still crop up in more modern philosophy (Leibniz,
> Plantinga, David Lewis, etc.).  It's all very interesting, at least to
> a philosophy geek like me.
>
> I always like it when very different authors mine the same ideas and
> come up with differnet-sounding though very similar in form plot
> points.
>
> LH
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