Tag: Time
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Plato’s Phaedrus and the Paideia of Søren Kierkegaard
In the summer of 2022, a friend invited me to join a discussion group which gets its jollies reading and discussing Plato’s dialogues line by line in minute detail. Before long it became obvious to me that I had entered the gates of heaven though I was much more alive than dead. Old pockets of…
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Conversation with ChatGPT on Kierkegaard’s Concept of Time or The BOT Thinks I’m a Moron
Here in this transcript I test my wits with ChatGPT. Not only is the robot smarter, it’s more polite. PART I JOHN I am writing an essay on the concept of time in the thought of Søren Kierkegaard. My thesis is that chronological time is mostly irrelevant, more like a distraction, from his perspective. In…