User:Admin/Lectures/Who wrote it?

Several Authors

• Parts I through III have some two dozen people.
  • Don't always claim authorship. "Sponsor" "Indict" etc...
• Part IV stands along as the joint work of a commission of 12 (?) people.

Upwards of 1,000 Authors

• Foreword explains this in its closing paragraph
• Similar to scientific and philosophic works citing others' ideas
  • Incorporating the ideas, amending the ideas
• Is it plagiarism?
  • "Of, by and for the people" is in the public domain.
    • No one will accuse of plagiarizing Lincoln if you quote it.
    • No one will let you get away with claiming it's your own.
  • This cosmology shows us our egos should not be attached to so-called invention of ideas
    • Truth is pre-existent and eternal.
    • The authors are consistent with the cosmology they articulate. ("we have FREELY...")

Does It Matter?

• Melville
  • Not recognized in his time. Only on the centennial of his birth.
• Twain
  • Suit, cigar, mustache was just his public persona.
  • His work stands on its own
• Plato
  • Few outside academia read The Republic these days, but its ideas are incorporated everywhere.