This invitation pertains to two different groups. One is the
plato-phaedo list, the other is a list called philosophy2. Both are
groups that existed in the somewhat distant past (well, not in the
lifetime of Plato, to be honest) and were extinguished by Yahoo Groups
due to inactivity and had to be recreated.

PLATO-PHAEDO

The plato-phaedo list had a long discussion of that dialogue and, thanks
to Angela Cembrola and (I believe) Michael Kochin, we were able to
rescue and upload the archives of past discussions. For some reason,
however, the subscriber base was never restored and at present there are
only 8 subscribers to that list.

The Phaedo is a very interesting and important dialogue. I think it
would be good to generate a new slow reading of it. If you would like
to participate and are not already a subscriber, you can subscribe by
sending a message to plato-phaedo-subscribe@yahoogroups.com, or
(preferably) by going to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/plato-phaedo/join.

REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION LEADER: If you would be interested in serving as
a discussion leader, please contact me at lrf@....


PHILOSOPHY2

The philosophy2 list started out as philosophy@...
(or something like that) and then became philosophy@... and
then philosophy@.... At that time it was intended for
general discussion about the nature of philosophy and the philosophy
profession (if that is not an oxymoron). Some time before I moved all my
lists to onelist.com (which ultimately became yahoogroups.com) we
started what was intended to be a systematic survey of the history of
philosophy, so when I moved my lists I decided to rename this one
philosophy-history, as a name more indicative of its purpose. The
original list remained in existence for a while, but was deleted by
Yahoo at some point, and I lost control over the name. That is the
reason why, when I decided to recreate the list, it had to be under a
new name, and I chose to call it: philosophy2.

Anyway, if you would like to participate in general discussions about
the nature of philosophy and of (perish the thought) the philosophy
profession, you are invited to subscribe to philosophy2 by either
sending a message to philosophy2-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or going to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/philosophy2/join.

And if you would like to serve as a discussion leader for this group,
please contact me at lrf@....

Lancelot Fletcher, president
The Free Lance Academy



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