Which yours truly thinks was structuring premises.
Disagree. Interpret the dialogues as a guised philosophical system. Kind of fitting, actually, when you think about the marriage of rhetoric and reason.It is not the dialogues but the act of talking with others that is important here and talking to each other is what we are doing now. We are not writing dialogues but we are part of a dialog which is what I think Socrates was originally doing.
Also disagree here. Hume wrote that reason is motive. That's a powerful idea. While it may not be a dichotomy between 'logic and emotions,' Jack of Hearts offers firstly emotion. Mostly emotion. Almost entirely emotion.I suspect the dichotomy between emotive and logical is false. It is not Captain Kirk and Spock. We aren't one or the other when we talk and perhaps we are neither depending on what those words are supposed to mean.
As spontaneous and controllable as what you might experience if you just shut your eyes and measured your thoughts. Which philosopher wrote about us all as survivors in a shipwreck with just enough for each of us to float on our own debris; not a pinch more for our 'truth' or philosophy? Emerson.What is the value of entertainment? Not necessarily to soothe, but to enlighten, because you provide me with something new that I would not have come up with on my own without you. That entertains and enlightens.
J