The strauss-reading list is now up and running. Almost all of the addresses on the leo-strauss list have been copied over to this one, except for about 15...
lance@...
Mar 15, 2000 9:23 pm
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Enter your vote today! Check out the new poll for the strauss-reading group: Which text by Leo Strauss would you most like to read and discuss on the...
strauss-reading@oneli...
Mar 16, 2000 6:50 pm
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As I voting for other, I have to do by e-mail (I have also registered on the site). I am interested to have Strauss' essay on Scmitt read by the group. Best...
Andrew Lancaster
100761.200@...
Mar 17, 2000 2:07 pm
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Hello Mr.Fletcher, Why dont you add On Tyranny to the list, with the Strauss-Kojeve exchange?...
kosta.simopoulos@...
Mar 20, 2000 8:40 pm
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Dear list, My vote was first for Persecution And The Art Of Writing. But I agree with Mr. Simopoulos for On Tyranny and Strauss-Kojčve debate....
Edoardo Camurri
ecamurri@...
Mar 21, 2000 11:41 am
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The following strauss-reading poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: Which text by Leo Strauss would you most like to read and discuss...
strauss-reading@oneli...
Mar 29, 2000 3:06 pm
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The polls are now closed, so the spin can begin. Out of 17 votes cast, the leading candidate (Persecution and the Art of Writing) had 4 votes. Does this remind...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
lance@...
Mar 29, 2000 4:11 pm
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[Please disregard the date of this message, which is set to 1972 by the folks who run the domain CapAccess.org to avoid possible Y2K problems, as the year 1972...
seltzer@...
Mar 29, 2000 8:33 pm
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Even though I initially voted for CAM, I find Lance's arguments persuasive -- especially the one about starting with a 15-page work. So I'll join the winning...
Kent Guida
kent.guida@...
Mar 30, 2000 12:52 am
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Dear Mr. Fletcher, I am quite happy to go ahead and read Strauss's "Persecution and the Art of Writing", now that it is clear to me that our voting result was...
Brett Dutton
brettd@...
Mar 30, 2000 3:44 am
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I agree and switch my vote to PAW as well. Does it not, however, make more sense to begin with the introduction?...
Michiel Visser
michiel.visser@...
Apr 7, 2000 9:58 am
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... If you have an argument for this point, I would be willing to listen to it. Absent that, however, my answer would be, no, I do not think it makes more ...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
lance@...
Apr 7, 2000 9:41 pm
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[Please disregard the date of this message, which is set to 1972 by the folks who run the domain CapAccess.org to avoid possible Y2K problems, as the year 1972...
seltzer@...
Apr 8, 2000 1:47 pm
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I thought it might make sense to read the Introduction first because the book is called Persecution and the Art of Writing not Persecution and the Art of...
Michiel Visser
michiel.visser@...
Apr 9, 2000 11:21 pm
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"In a considerable number of countries which, for about a hundred years, have enjoyed a practically complete freedom of public discussion, that freedom is now...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
lance@...
Apr 11, 2000 7:55 am
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I am nowhere near my copy. could you scan in or otherwise indicate what passages are quoted? ... Your friend, Scott Alexander...
Scott Alexander
alexander@...
Apr 11, 2000 1:43 pm
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... The footnote cites passages. It does not quote them. Here is the text of footnote 1: Scribere est agere. See Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries, Book...
lance@...
Apr 11, 2000 4:43 pm
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... The United States, foremost, as it has the longest history of writing freedom. I would point out that while there have been periods of press and other...
Kalev Pehme
pehme@...
Apr 11, 2000 5:29 pm
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re: Re: [strauss-reading] PAW: Sec. I par.1 On 4/11/2000, lance@... wrote: Scribere est agere. See Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries , Book IV,...
Steve Sorensen
ssorens@...
Apr 11, 2000 7:22 pm
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... I don't see how you can say that Strauss "omits" certain countries when he has not listed any. What are they omitted from? More generally, what evidence...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
lance@...
Apr 11, 2000 8:02 pm
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Steve, Thanks very much for that comprehensive report on the footnote. I found it extraordinariliy helpful. I hope your example will inspire others to ...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
lance@...
Apr 11, 2000 8:25 pm
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... Well, let's see now. What countries have had freedom of writing in the past hundred years from 1941? Did Germany? No. Russia, no. Italy, no. What...
Kalev Pehme
pehme@...
Apr 12, 2000 12:12 am
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... . ... of liberal democracy. ... Union and other ones ... Africa. Is that so? Compulsion to uphold the egalitarianism of liberal democracy? Where do you...
Michiel Visser
michiel.visser@...
Apr 12, 2000 3:26 am
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As I was mulling over the last couple of posts I began to wonder more and more which countries Strauss actually had in mind. If Kalev is right and we must...
Michiel Visser
michiel.visser@...
Apr 12, 2000 3:39 am
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We have not begun at the beginning, i.e. with the motto: "That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the...
Michiel Visser
michiel.visser@...
Apr 12, 2000 3:48 am
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We have not begun at the beginning, i.e. with the motto: "That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the...
Michiel Visser
michiel.visser@...
Apr 12, 2000 4:02 am
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PAW: Section I, Paragraph 2. Text: ============ A large section of the people, probably the great majority of the younger generation, (Footnote 2: "Socrates:...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
lance@...
Apr 12, 2000 4:21 am
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... Is that article that topical? I don't think that Strauss intended the article to be solely a comment on his times, but it is an article for all times. It...
Kalev Pehme
pehme@...
Apr 12, 2000 10:21 am
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... I agree. Why refer to an old French philosopher, the founder of English Common Law and to the founder of "modernity", i.e. the Italian Machiavelli? Notice...
Brett Dutton
brettd@...
Apr 12, 2000 12:45 pm
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... the article to be solely ... meant to explain the ... and whatever regime he ... Well, I am sure that you are correct to say that Strauss did not just ...
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