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 ...
Michiel Visser
michiel.visser@...
Apr 12, 2000 1:23 pm
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... the ... meant ... man and ... English ... I am, of course, not disagreeing that there is a wider issue at stake, but we must not forget to start "from an...
Michiel Visser
michiel.visser@...
Apr 12, 2000 1:28 pm
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... I agree with Lance that the reference is almost certainly to the thousand year Reich. However, I would say "omit" is the right word for Russia because...
Scott Alexander
alexander@...
Apr 12, 2000 4:06 pm
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... No, that would be Coke, if indeed there is a single founder of the common law. Coke was still recognizably classical, Blackstone made the common law...
Steve Sorensen
ssorens@...
Apr 12, 2000 4:29 pm
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... That's certainly what I thought. ... Remember that even earlier than that, Kant praised the King of Prussia for allowing theoretical, philosophical...
Michael Mills
mills@...
Apr 12, 2000 6:49 pm
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I offer my opinion, how much weight it carries is another matter all together; nevertheless, I'll add my two cents because I'm new to the list and want to see...
Michael Steven Russell
msrpog@...
Apr 12, 2000 8:33 pm
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Can it be argued that the introduction may provide a ground by which all the articles may be harmonized?...
caw.dor@...
Apr 12, 2000 8:33 pm
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Friends, As we will no doubt follow the obvious organizational features of Strauss' essay, I thought we might agree on a simple convention. There are three...
peterconk@...
Apr 12, 2000 8:33 pm
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Friends, Just a note on something posted here recently: "Egalitarianism is against nature, particularly that part of nature whose hiearchy culminates in the...
peterconk@...
Apr 12, 2000 8:34 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 12, 2000 11:46 pm
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My sense was confirmed by a rereading of Marx' history, he never encountered official suppression or persecution because of any of the books he wrote. All of...
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