Michael, Sure I agree with you here. We are taking about Victor Davis Hanson right? He has three sides: Classicist, Military Historian, and Agarian-Farmer....
Dear List Members: Strauss makes an abrupt shift in lecture when we reach the penultimate paragraph, and what I say here will have to be linked to what I say...
Dear List Members: This is the last paragraph of this lecture, and it is chock full of goodies, including the answer to Andrew Lancaster's post on the Strauss...
Dear List Members: The second lecture is a continuation of the Aristophanes problem of poetry and imitation, as well as Hegelian self-consciousness versus...
... [snip] ... a very ... Strauss ... to which ... this post ... I have skimmed your long post, and it seems to me that the reference to the beast with two...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "I concluded my general interpretation of the Aristophanean comedy by contrasting it with the interpretation given by the...
Dear List Members: With the third paragraph, Strauss begins his summation of Aristophanes's _Clouds_. "At the beginning of the _Clouds_ it is dark." Sometimes...
Dear List Members: Strauss contines in a digression, and a very important one at that: "A word about Socrates' think tank or school. Misled by what the...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues after digressing about the think tank with his analysis of the _Clouds_: "Strepsiades enters into Socrates' think tank in...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "Socrates teaches two things, natural science and rhetoric. The duality of natural science and rhetoric corresponds to a...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "The Unjust Speech denies the existence of right on the grounds that justice is 'not with the gods' (ll. 903-5). Zeus did...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "Pheidippides learns the art of speaking. Trusting his son's accomplishments, Strepsiades refuses to pay his debts and,...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "It is necessary to consider the conduct of Socrates's goddesses, the Clouds. The Clouds do not express Socrates'...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "After Socrates has introduced new divinities into the city, they desert him when they how unpopular he is bound to...
Dear List Members: What Strauss did in the last paragraph was to end it with a reference to Plato's Republic in which he said that Plato and Aristophanes were...
Dear List Members: At this point, we come to the end of the Aristophanean part of these lectures, and they end in a very high note. Strauss continues: "What,...
Dear List Members: We go from Aristophanes to Xenophon, who is the greatest writer of farces among the philosophers. "At first glance Xenophon's Socratic...
Dear List Members: Before I continue, I want to remark about how Strauss reads and writes here about Xenophon. He imitates the spirit of his writing by the art...
I am sorry if you already have received this posting. I have not, and I sending it again, just in case. Dear List Members: Before I continue, I want to remark...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "In one of Xenophon's Socratic writings Socrates describes the general opinion about himself in terms of the reminiscent...
Worth noting with regards to the "Memorabilia" is the apologetic character of the writing. This is hardly an impassive or "objective" presentation of Socrates...
... Sympathetic to whom? The Xenophontic Socrates may be sympathetic to you and me; however, I wonder to whom else? Xenophon's Socrates often appears as even...
Mr. Pehme, I would disagree with you on this point. Xenophon's Socrates can occasionally appear pedantic but I don't think he is even close to being as...
... I believe that Xenophon presents to us a double vision of Socrates, one that is raucously hilarious as well as a very profound and serious philosopher. It...
Dear List Members: While the last paragraph culminates in the wholeness of the two poles of Xenophon's work, Socrates and Cyrus, this paragraph begins with the...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues in this penultimate paragraph: "I must now turn to a more detailed analysis of the political teachings of Xenophon's...
Dear List Members: We now come to the end of the second lecture. Strauss concludes: "Now, while according to Xenophon and his Socrates, the transpolitical life...
Dear List Members: We now turn to the third lecture. I did not expect to go with far, as it was my intent only to do may one or two lectures. However, I am...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "I shall speak first of Xenophon." Basically, as these lectures numbered six originally, and if centrality were an issue,...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "Now, Xenophon's Socratic writings consist of four pieces, the _Memorabilia_, the _Oeconomicus_, the _Banquet_, and the...
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