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...
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[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...
Dear Kalev, ... Up to this point in your message, I am tempted to respond as I did before (at '"Strauss headquarters," I believe), when it occasioned some ...
George Gregory writes: _____ Dear Kalev, ... Up to this point in your message, I am tempted to respond as I did before (at '"Strauss headquarters," I believe),...
Mr. Foley, conventionality is the cause of crime. Best regards, Kalev Pehme ... --Assuming he's not just a criminal (arsonist). SPONSORED LINKS Political ...
Dan I think you touch upon an important point in the rhetoric of expressing what is real. It puts me in mind of the contemporary artist who will frame a blank...
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I'll be very brief: translate ""we"" as "received opinion" and you have the method of Herodotus ( and Aristotle ). A conventional approach. ... who is ... ...
Hello Dan, ... Since Bloom is not around to discuss this with us, perhaps you can take his end of the discussion. I don't think it is really all that difficult...
Dan Foley asks: _____ So what's the cause of law-abidingness? [There are two causes: First is conventionality; the second is thoughtfulness. The latter is not...
... Ok, you sold me "Encounters." ... I think what you suggest to be the conventionality of language is worth exploring further. Conventionality, yes, but...
Dan Foley writes: _____ Ooops! Premature posting. Still under construction... ("Send" button too close to "edit") ... Oh, I thought all of your posts were...
George Gregory writes: [snip] I think what you suggest to be the conventionality of language is worth exploring further. Conventionality, yes, but whence does...
... --No doubt, you are very daring, Mr. Pehme. I am not sure this is a particularly good example of your daring, however. What you have to say about incest,...
Dan Foley writes: _____ ... wrong). ... --No doubt, you are very daring, Mr. Pehme. I am not sure this is a particularly good example of your daring, however....
... Man is a social animal ( along with most mammals ). Mind is largely a "marriage" of evolved flesh and language ( part of the "Commons" ). It took great...
Hi George, ... --Well, I think we started that once... Perhaps it is not as important where one digs in as it is that one digs in. I.e., we might still dig...
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