{"id":32508,"date":"2014-09-29T01:19:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T23:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irmadriessen.nl\/log\/?p=32508"},"modified":"2018-10-15T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T12:29:15","slug":"the-greek-case-against-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/the-greek-case-against-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"the greek case against writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Socrates complains that writing undermines the need to remember things and weakens the mind, creating &#8216;forgetfullness in the learners&#8217; souls, because they will not use their memories&#8217;; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. Socrates also points out that written texts cannot respond to queries (&#8216;if you ask them a question they maintain a solemn silence&#8217;) and are subject to misunderstanding or distortion (&#8216;if they are maltreated or abused they have no parent to protect them; and they cannot protect or defend themselves&#8217;). Socrates concedes that written texts have their uses &#8216;as memorials to be treasured against the forgetfullness of old age,&#8217; but he is far more worried about their shortcomings. People who rely on written documents, he fears, will be &#8216;hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing.&#8217; <small>\u2013 Plato\/Phaedrus in Writing on the wall, Tom Standage<\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>In de dialoog, het goede gesprek tussen vrienden, huist volgens de Grieken de vonk, het plotse inzicht. Wat een waanzinnige eigenschappen van tekst, woorden. They maintain a solemn silence. No parent to protect them. They cannot protect themselves. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socrates complains that writing undermines the need to remember things and weakens the mind, creating &#8216;forgetfullness in the learners&#8217; souls, because they will not use their memories&#8217;; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. Socrates also points out that written texts cannot respond to queries (&#8216;if you ask them<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/the-greek-case-against-writing\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57865,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32508\/revisions\/57865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}