'...' democracy makes peace and prosperity partic ugly... how can the out party-powers get power if they can't create a devil to get rid of? Capitalism, like...
hardly less than the Spartan and much more than the Athenian..." ? 33, " ... the state must be indifferent to virtue or vice as such...", imputed of A. Not the...
--Why would or wouldn't we let it slide? --I tied the first to your earlier post. "Does anyone have a cite from Aristotle, where A indicates he is pro...
Dear Mr. Foley, Please don't think I think your replies to me unworthy of comment. In fact, I have I did a little work in support of your reading of Aristotle...
... Never forgetting that A had ranks and qualities (? ) of friendship... the paradigm case stemming from love of the good in others, as in oneself. Then the...
Dear Mr. Keyser, --That's good to hear. I look forward to you sharing your work on Aristotle and the Pythagoreans. --And thank you for the point on Aristotle....
I can't remeber him saying much per se about them, the Spartans. Plato has been noted as an admirer, but I can't remember anything sympathetic in A 's ...
I'll have to go back for some of his chapter on Plato. What an odd experience to read LS... there is sense to much he says, but he seems quite over the top in...
Dear List Members: The essay "On the Minos" is barely 10 pages in Liberalism Ancient and Modern. Yet, it is one of the most critical essays that Strauss wrote,...
And it will no doubt take a year or two to get down to speed, but then let me slow things down abit now ( suddenly ). Nomos is the term in use for law? Is...
______________________________________ ➢ Dear Kalev, ... One of the problems is what is the alternative way to begin the dialogue. I don't know of any other...
Wblakesx writes: ________________________________________ And it will no doubt take a year or two to get down to speed, but then let me slow things down abit...
Where did we switch from CM? Which I bought & read to better participate . It will take some time for the latency effect to work so I'm not saying I read it...
About the City and Man reading: I did a commentary on a part of it, which I finished. Dan Foley started one and stopped. However, no one is stopping you from...
Your relying on Ms. Young-Bruehl's biography for Hannah Arendt's judgement of Strauss is rather probablematic.. not that Ms. Young- Bruehl is wrong, but rather...
Thanks for the enexpected info. ... There is a huge amount of grey and equivocaltion surrounding these figures ( some even hold Arendt as "the phiosopher of...
Dear Kalev, Sorry for not getting back sooner... the pressures of end-semester, and you know them. ... I don't either. ... I suggested that the abruptness...
I guess I had to think about it and then lost the thread. I can't remeber A commenting. No doubt he did as evidence in some arg, but I don't know if he spent...
Dear Kalev, Sorry for not getting back sooner... the pressures of end-semester, and you know them. [snip] ... Playing with the question: The question "why?"...
Perhaps I'm "naive" in taking S as being at his most sublime in his argument that he knew he didn't know, after the Oracle at Delphi ? I really believed he...
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