Critical Summary of the Anonymous Commentary on Plato’s Theaetetus
The Anonymous Commentary on Plato’s Theaetetus (P. Berol. inv. 9782), a fragmentary Middle Platonist text dated to the 1st or 2nd century AD, provides a detailed, line-by-line exegesis of the dialogue from its prologue through approximately 153d–154b, with additional fragments extending to discussions of dreams, madness, and perceptual errors. Likely originating from an Alexandrian philosophical […]
Broadie vs. the Bots: When AI Forgets Plato Doesn’t Recollect the Good with a Response by ChatGPT 5
ChatGPT 5 Here is the revised, critical analysis incorporating your supplied a–d arguments from Sarah Broadie (1941–2021) in Plato’s Sun-like Good: Dialectic in the Republic (2021) , along with an account of the opposing sides in Platonic scholarship, the AI models’ failures, and Broadie’s conclusions. ChatGPT 5 then defends its original position, critiquing Broadie’s arguments. […]