Dear Oxford
Academic,
I have been
studying Ancient Philosophy for more than fifty years. For the last 8 years, the
results of my work could be viewed on my website; in January 2008 I put on my
website The Lost Plato and in the
years that followed a number of texts concerning my work; recordings
of Plato, Aristotle, Isocrates, Xenophon, Alcidamas, Homer, Pindar, and The New
Testament in the original; virtual lecture on ‘Socrates, Plato, and the Laws of
Athens’ and on ‘Human Spiritual Nature and the X of Neurophysiologists’.
I live in a house
for old people; my working conditions
are good. The problem is my financial situation. The monthly Service Charge for
the flat is £185.10, the monthly council tax is £210.24, then come bills for
telephone, water, and electricity. I need to eat and dress, and need to buy
some underwear. My only income is every four weeks £112.12 of British State Pension, and every
three months a Czech Pension of approximately £460 (£460.21 was the last
payment I received, in January 2016).
Would you
look on my website www.juliustomin.org,
especially the paper on ‘Plato’s defence of Forms in the Parmenides’, and on my blog http://juliustominquestions.blogspot.co.uk/,
in particular the series of 25 posts devoted to the dating of the Phaedrus, which began on November 25,
2016 with the post entitled ‘Could my dating of Plato’s Phaedrus be an answer?’ and ended with the post entitled ‘4cc
Dating of the Phaedrus – doctrinal
arguments (discussing Plato’s Euthydemus,
Statesman, Republic and Laws, and
Aristotle’s Politics)’ and posted on
February 17 of this year? If you do, you will see that the Blog allows a new form of work. Every post opens for me a new enquiry,
with every post my understanding of Plato gets more structured, more
articulated; and I hope that at least some of those who follow my blog do enjoy
the new glimpses of Plato each post brings.
Originally, on March 3, I
addressed my appeal for sponsorship to the University of Oxford Faculty of
Philosophy Members, Philosophy Panel. ‘Subject’: ‘busking on the net’. I then
looked in the dictionary: ‘busk – to perform music in a public place and ask
for money from people passing by’. I realized that the ‘witty’ ‘busking on the
net’ is all wrong. Buskers would not busk if they expected to get no money. I
shall continue enquiring into Plato on my Blog whether I find anybody willing
to sponsor me or no. But any help would be appreciated. Yesterday I had to
cancel my dental appointment.
If you look
at ‘Plato’s Statesman, the date of
its composition with references to his Parmenides,
Phaedo, Symposium, Second and Seventh
Letter, and to Plutarch’s Dion’,
which I posted on March 8, you will see that my
work is getting better from post to post.
Regards,
Julius Tomin
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