Volume 37, Number 11 · June 28, 1990
Tripping
By D.L. Ouron, Reply by Robert M. Adams
In response to Tripping Over the Future
(April 26, 1990)
To the Editors:
In "Tripping Over the Future" [NYR, April 26], we are told by Robert M. Adams that Empedocles "carried away by Plato's arguments" jumped into Etna. Did he intend this as serious history? Empedocles was a Pre-Socratic who may well have died before Plato was born (or who died during Plato's youth). Perhaps he meant Parmenides, instead of Plato.
Is this another example of "Cultural Illiteracy" in the Modern World?
Dr. D.L. Ouron
University of Minnesota
Sedan, Minnesota
