A Much Much Closer View of Cobb Hall, Phaedrus’ Classroom Building from Hospital Plaza.
“Now everyone’s face becomes carefully composed in defense against more of this sort of questioning. The Professor of Philosophy has made a mistake. He’s wasted his disciplinary authority on an innocent student while Phædrus, the guilty one, the hostile one, is still at large. And getting larger and larger. Since he has asked no questions there is now no way to cut him down. And now that he sees how the questions will be answered he’s certainly not about to ask them.“(U.Chicago contCont.Nnext)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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Cobb Hall Front Door Entrance Lobby. A View Straight Up Showing the Stair Landings for the Four Levels Above the First Floor.
“The innocent student stares down at the table, face red, hands shrouding his eyes. His shame becomes Phædrus’ anger. In all his classes he never once talked to a student like that. So that’s how they teach classics at the University of Chicago. Phædrus knows the Professor of Philosophy now. But the Professor of Philosophy doesn’t know Phædrus.“(Cont.Next)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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A Clutter Of Buildings and Signs Greets the Traveler As Is Typical of Most USA Towns and Cities.
“The grey rainy skies and sign-strewn road descend to Crescent City, California, …. “(Cont.Next)
Entrance to Crescent City, CA. The Narrator’s “view” of this town, literally, emotionally, and figuratively, is colored by his recall of Phaedrus’ feelings concerning Chicago: Phaedrus’ negative reaction to the topic of Aristotle, his views on the teaching methods, and his physical surroundings there. Unfortunately, I was unable to photograph the Narrator’s gloomy foggy rainy scenes. Except for some costal fog, I experience good weather while I was In California. Consequently, my photos do not show the Narrator’s “grey rainy skies“. However the Narrator’s bad weather is common along the coastal areas of California Grey skies often happen when the coastal fog is hanging over the relatively cool Pacific Ocean edge. This fog often extends 20-40 miles inland. Without the fog, the coast would be similar to the interior California, where the norm is sunshine every day with the semi-arid landscapes. During these coastal fog conditions, on an otherwise sunny day, the thin penetrating heat from sun will lift the fog well up off the ground This condition is experienced as overcast grey skies. While driving the coast ahead, I did experience the full range of fog conditions, to varying degrees. Pay attention, you will see this range of fog conditions, in my up coming photos. The Narrator also mentions how they experienced the always changing conditions of this “Coastal California Fog”. New Topic: As I drove into Crescent City, CA, I did my best to get a good photo of an awful “sign-strewn road“ Crescent City must have cleaned things up a bit, because this photo is the best I could do for a “sign-strewn road“.
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After All This Anticipation ….. Finally ….. the Pacific Ocean!
“ …. grey and cold and wet, and Chris and I look and see the water, the ocean, in the distance beyond piers and grey buildings. I remember this was our great goal all these days. We enter a restaurant with a fancy red carpet and fancy menus with extremely high prices. We are the only people here. We eat silently, pay and are on the road again, south now, cold and misty.“(Cont.Next) First view of Pacific Ocean Crescent City, CA. This photo is taken at an elevation of no more than ~0020 feet, but here and later beach photos my GPS reads around 30 feet Evidently my GPS (at least in this area) reads elevation higher by thisamount.. Many other places I have given additional elevation data (as was available) so you can judge the comparative accuracy of my GPS elevation numbers. I have decided to always report my GPS readings as given by my hand held receiver, and allow you, the reader, to decide how and when to make elevation corrections.
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Phaedrus’ Classroom Possibility Number Two. Out the Smudged & Ivy Covered Windows You Can Make Out the Darker Entrance Area For the Hospital. Sidewalks, Lawn and Sitting Benches Are Also Seen.
“In the next sessions the shamed student is no longer present. No surprise. The class is completely frozen, as is inevitable when an incident like that has taken place. Each session, just one person does all the talking, the Professor of Philosophy, and he talks and talks and talks to faces that have turned into masks of neutrality. .. The Professor of Philosophy seems quite aware of what has happened. His previous little eye-flick of malice toward Phædrus has turned to a little eye-flick of fear. He seems to understand that within the present classroom situation, when the time comes, he can get exactly the same treatment he gave, and there will be no sympathy from any of the faces before him. He’s thrown away his right to courtesy. There’s no way to prevent retaliation now except to keep covered. . But to keep covered he must work hard, and say things exactly right. Phædrus understands this too. By remaining silent he can now learn under what are very advantageous circumstances.“
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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Summertime at The University of Chicago Medical Center. A view Thru the Glass Window . What Phaedrus Might Have Seen From His Cobb Lecture Hall Classroom In September or Early October.
[The Narrator covers Phaedrus’ Pre-judged Mode of Study, then continues:] “Aristotle fouled up what Phædrus wanted to say by placing rhetoric in an outrageously minor category in his hierarchic order of things. It was a branch of Practical Science, a kind of shirttail relation to the other category, Theoretical Science, which Aristotle was mainly involved in. As a branch of Practical Science it was isolated from any concern with Truth or Good or Beauty, except as devices to throw into an argument. Thus Quality, in Aristotle’s system, is totally divorced from rhetoric. This contempt for rhetoric, combined with Aristotle’s own atrocious quality of rhetoric, so completely alienated Phædrus he couldn’t read anything Aristotle said without seeking ways to despise it and attack it“(U.Chicago Cont.Next)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. The dark object Is a Sculptured Sphere. Later photos show the hospital and a disk shaped sculpture.
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Another View of the Hospital Thru the Windows of a Classroom, Cobb Lecture Hall.
[The Narrator covers Phaedru’s discovery of why the dialectic and the key fact that it is a“fulcrum word“ , then continues:]“Phædrus guessed that Aristotle’s diminution of dialectic, from Plato’s sole method of arriving at truth to a "counterpart of rhetoric," might be as infuriating to modern Platonists as it would have been to Plato. Since the Professor of Philosophy didn’t know what Phædrus’ "position" was, this was what was making him edgy. He might be afraid that Phædrus the Platonist was going to jump him. If so, he certainly had nothing to worry about. Phædrus wasn’t insulted that dialectic had been brought down to the level of rhetoric. He was outraged that rhetoric had been brought down to the level of dialectic. Such was the confusion at the time. .. The person to clear all this up, of course, was Plato, and fortunately he was the next to appear at the round table with the crack running across the middle in the dim dreary room across from the hospital building in South Chicago.“(Cont.Next)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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A Fairly Misty Foggy Day At the Coast, But Not As Bad As Described By the Narrator.
“We follow the coast now, cold, wet and depressed. The rain has let up, temporarily, but the sky shows no hope. At one point I see a beach and some people walking on it in the wet sand. I’m tired and so I stop. .. As he gets off, Chris says, "What are we stopping for?" .. "I’m tired," I say. “(Cont.Next)
Three mi South of Orick, CA. Here we get a typical sample of California Cold, Depressing, Dreary, Dismal, Drizzly Fog. This lasted for several hours until the sun finally burned it off. However for Chris and the Narrator, the rain and cold never let up all day and part of the next.
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Where the Mountain Slopes Down To the Beach.
“The wind blows cold off the ocean and where it has formed dunes, now wet and dark from the rain that must just have ended here, I find a place to lie down, and this makes me a little warmer. .. I don’t sleep though. A little girl appears over the top of the dune looking as though she wants me to come and play. After a while she goes away. .. In time Chris comes back and wants to go. He says he has found some funny plants out on the rocks that have feelers which pull in when you touch them. “(Cont.Next)
Five mi South of Orick, CA.
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California Coast: The Low Tide Exposes Rocks and Myriads of Water Creatures.
“I go with him and see between rises of waves on the rocks that they are sea anemones, which are not plants but animals. I tell him the tentacles can paralyze small fish. The tide must be all the way out or we wouldn’t see these, I say. From the corner of my eye I see the little girl on the other side of the rocks has picked up a starfish. Her parents are carrying some starfish too.(Cont.Next)“
Somewhere along the California Ocean Edge, CA. I did not find any exposed rocks along the ocean edge, in area consistent with the ZMM Narrative, so here what is seen at the rightly famed half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco.
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After the Beach: Flowers and A Curve In the Road Leading South.
“We get on the motorcycle and move south. Sometimes the rain gets heavy and I snap on the bubble so it doesn’t sting my face, but I don’t like this and take it off when the rain dies away. We should reach Arcata before dark but I don’t want to go too fast on this wet road.“(Cont.Next)
Six mi South of Orick, CA. The Narrator doesn’t want to go too fast on his discussion of Phaedrus’s final days in Chicago
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Two Symbolic California Bears, Plato and Aristotle, Greet the Traveler as They Cross This Bridge!
“I think it was Coleridge who said everyone is either a Platonist or an Aristotelian. People who can’t stand Aristotle’s endless specificity of detail are natural lovers of Plato’s soaring generalities. People who can’t stand the eternal lofty idealism of Plato welcome the down-to-earth facts of Aristotle.“(Cont.Next)
Rt 101 crosses Klamath River, near Klamath CA.
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Aristotle and Plato! You Can Say Which Is Which.
“[People who can’t stand the eternal lofty idealism of Plato welcome the down-to-earth facts of Aristotle.] Plato is the essential Buddha-seeker who appears again and again in each generation, moving onward and upward toward the "one." Aristotle is the eternal motorcycle mechanic who prefers the "many." I myself am pretty much Aristotelian in this sense, preferring to find the Buddha in the quality of the facts around me, but Phædrus was clearly a Platonist by temperament and when the classes shifted to Plato he was greatly relieved.“(Cont.Next)
Rt 101 crosses Klamath River, near Klamath CA.
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Phaedrus Classroom Possibility Number Three. Out the Window You Can Barely Make Out a Tree and Sidewalk In Front of the Hospital Wall.
“ ….. [and when the classes shifted to Plato he was greatly relieved.] His Quality and Plato’s Good were so similar that if it hadn’t been for some notes Phædrus left I might have thought they were identical. But he denied it, and in time I came to see how important this denial was.“(Cont.Next)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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View of Hospital From Which Cobb Lecture Hall, Fifth Floor, Can Be Seen. At Far Right is the University of Chicago Building which holds the University Book Store and Coffee Shop Which are Mentioned in ZMM.
“The course in the Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods was not concerned with Plato’s notion of the Good, however; it was concerned with Plato’s notion of rhetoric.Rhetoric, Plato spells out very clearly, is in no way connected with the Good; rhetoric is "the Bad." The people Plato hates most, next to tyrants, are rhetoricians. ..
The first of the Platonic Dialogues assigned is the Gorgias, and Phædrus has a sense of having arrived. This at last is where he wants to be.“(U.Chicago ContNext)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. A close up of the disk shaped sculpture, on the plaza before the hospital, will be seen in a later photo.
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This Painting, Discovered In Phaedrus Classroom Building, Cobb Hall, Seems To Represent What Happened To Phaedrus? Or Perhaps It Represents Our Modern Times? Swift Hall Is Seen Through the Window.
“All along he has had a feeling of being swept forward by forces he doesn’t understand—Messianic forces. October has come and gone. Days have become phantasmal and incoherent, except in terms of Quality. Nothing matters except that he has a new and shattering and world-shaking truth about to be born, and like it or not, the world is morally obligated to accept it.
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University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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An Enormous Table At The University of Chicago. The View Out the Window Looks Over the Trees To A Mall - Scene Of the 1895 Chicago Exposition (World Fair).
“In the dialogue, Gorgias is the name of a Sophist whom Socrates cross-examines. Socrates knows very well what Gorgias does for a living and how he does it, but he starts his Twenty Questions dialectic by asking …. “ [The Narrator here (one page) discusses how Socrates ’s questions (written by Plato) serve only to discredit the Sophists. He finishes with:]“Socrates is not using dialectic to understand rhetoric, he is using it to destroy it, or at least to bring it into disrepute, and so his questions are not real questions at all—they are just word-traps which Gorgias and his fellow rhetoricians fall into. Phædrus is quite incensed by all this and wishes he were there.“(U.Chicago ContNext) University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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Vine and Ivy Leaves Have Grown Over the Windows Since Phaedrus Was In These Classrooms.
“In class, the Professor of Philosophy, noting Phædrus’ apparent good behavior and diligence, has decided he may not be such a bad student after all. This is a second mistake. He has decided to play a little game with Phædrus by asking him what he thinks of cookery.“[Phaedrus thoughts, working at lightning speed, tries to work out an answer that will prevent his being thrown by a dialectical hold. He never answers! The class goes on. Phaedrus, his mind racing on and on, does not hear the lecture. He sees his own evil. After 1.5 pages, the Narrator finishes this section with:] “ The Professor calls the lecture to an early end and leaves the room hurriedly. .. After the students have filed out silently Phædrus sits alone at the huge round table until the sun through the sooty air beyond the window disappears and the room becomes grey and then dark.“(U.Chicago Cont.Next)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
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