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...
George Gregory writes: [snip] ... for ... Not necessarily. Or, yes and no. -- If I review Socrates' various conversations in my head, I cannot think of times...
--Just a few thoughts on Strauss' beginning. Contra Plato's, it is not abrupt. Strauss' is a commentary "On the Minos," and it begins, "The Minos has come...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "The companion's first answer to Socrates' comprehensive question is to the effect that the law is the whole consisting...
Dan Foley writes: [snip] --I have a question. Does it seem to others that Strauss' books are not unified works? Leaving out NRH and TOM, e.g., are works...
Thanks. I guess I suspect there's a greater unity than you do, that these books do have a plan, even though they are collections. For now, I'd just point to...
Cookie cutter?... Did Anaxagorus say all that? ( rather impresseive some of it was, sorry not to have time to read it more closely ). Often things get into...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "The companion proves the variety of the laws by the examples of the laws concerning sacrifices and burials; the examples...
Dear Kalev and others I've just been trying to catch up on these posts, and it happened to coincide with my reading these words of Strauss. "Thinking in terms...
--As we seem to have stalled out for the moment, I take the opportunity to savor Strauss' opening a bit further. (...And leave off the question of context,...
Hello Dan, ... Do I hear you aright? -- You are suggesting a slow-read of the Introduction of CM? -- An excellent suggestion. ... Your long parenthesis ends...
George Gregory writes: _____ Hello Dan, Dan Foley wrote: [snip] I'll add another quip from Benardete, from another work, where he says that Strauss' reading of...
Doesn't the reader, then, need to know what is real prior to coming to the text in question, in order to discern what is real when he reads it? Or does reality...
Paul Waters writes: _____ Doesn't the reader, then, need to know what is real prior to coming to the text in question, in order to discern what is real when he...
... to the ... Or does ... he reads ... knows ... always beset ... you got ... what ... first, ... bit - ... A great divide lies between the remains of...
[Both. Reality is self-revealing otherwise it is not real unless it is hiding something real.] ???????? no one here believes this do they ? Must be a...
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