1. What is Media Philosophy?

2. medium (n.)
1580s, "a middle ground, quality, or degree," from Latin medium "the middle, midst, center; interval," noun use of neuter of adjective medius (see medial (adj.)).
Meaning "intermediate agency, channel of communication" is from c That of "person who conveys spiritual messages" first recorded 1853, from notion of "substance through which something is conveyed." Artistic sense (oil, watercolors, etc.) is from Happy medium is the "golden mean," Horace's aurea mediocritas.
medium (adj.)
1660s, "average," from medium (n.). The Latin adjective was medius. Meaning "intermediate" is from As a size designation from as a designation of cooked meat, it is attested from 1931, short for medium-rare (1881).

3. media (n.)
"newspapers, radio, TV, etc." 1927, perhaps abstracted from mass media (1923, a technical term in advertising), plural of medium, on notion of "intermediate agency," a sense found in that word in English from c
also multi-media, 1962, from multi- + media.
The press, meaning "journalists collectively" has been superseded by media since the rise of television and the Internet

6. Socrates on Writing in Plato’s Phaedrus

7. Unlike Plato’s Philosophy, Gorgias’ Rhetoric was Divorced from Truth

8. Plato was Understandably Hostile to Rhetoric

9. Platonic Philosophy is Dialogue Geared Towards Truth

11. Immorally Uplifting Poetry, Music, and Visual Art

12. Platonic Philosophy vs Writing, Rhetoric, and Most Poetry/Music
Writing = False Memory
Rhetoric = Persuasion without Truth
Poetry/Music = Immorally Uplifting

13. Irony: Socrates’ Dialogues Preserved in Writing

14. Unlike Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were Literate