Dear List Members: I am coming to the end of the lecture with this post. I await further readings from others. Strauss continues: "However deep the difference...
... This would seem to connect better to "culture" in Strauss' terminology than "civilisation". Songs and hymns makes us better than brutes in a way....
Tom Tyler writes: Mr. Pehme wrote: "The difficulty with Mencken is his position with respect to fascism before World War II. He was quite sympathetic to it, in...
Mr. Pehme writes: "If you want, I can send you a lecture, The Myth of Race, that I delivered at the Henry George School in New York City a very long time ago,...
Mr. Pehme writes: "The general irresponsibility and the lack of guilt or taking guilt for killing people means that we have a world like 1914, where people are...
Tom Tyler writes: Mr. Pehme writes: "The general irresponsibility and the lack of guilt or taking guilt for killing people means that we have a world like...
Mr. Pehme, Thanks for all the time and effort you put into the "Nihilism" reading, and I found it very, if you will forgive the pun, "Enlightening!" I came...
... The best way is just to do it. Start, and go on and on. I ought to warn you that most of the time people don't care to read very much, and prefer polemics...
... If I may add, I once asked for this but received the wrong lecture. I am also still interested for the exact same reason (Mr Pehme has mentioned this...
A small update about this reading. 1. Thanks to Mr Pehme. I hope everyone will give me a few days to get a bit more out of my reading. I have had a hectic...
... More than one thing can be read at a time. I have no objection to reading early Strauss at all, although early Strauss is nothing in comparison to the ...
... get ... long I ... been ... bit ... on ... lists. ... despite ... reading ... comparison to the ... which I ... Otherwise, I ... There is some sort of a...
At the start of LAM (p.3) Strauss writes... <<"Culture" (cultura) mean primarily agriculture: the cultivations of the soil and its products, taking care of the...
From Andrew: "Pufendorf it was who contrasted the vitae cultura with the status naturalia. It "refers to all the ways in which human beings overcome their...
... overcome ... the ... First, Velkley seems to say that Pufendorf only introduces the idea that the institutions and technology of a community could be...
Dear List I'll try to make a last effort, but I won't recover the same things Mr Pehme has covered, and that should save everyone some reading time. I would...
Andrew, Thanks for your reply to my question about the origins of the discussion of "subcultures," your description fits pretty much with what I had suspected....
I think it is an interesting point that in answer to Rousseau's question of why we should give reason such a high priority, the common sense answer does not...
Andrew, Man, you are raising a big, big question in that little tiny sentence. I don't know that JJR was using the symbol "reason" in the sense that I know to...
... Perhaps you could explain what you mean by both terms. ... sustained ... put ... for ... of ... the ... Philosophers ... that ... nous ... of ... So what...
Andrew, I apologize for my tardiness in getting back with a response, but I am swamped with work! I'll rejoin the discussion over this weekend, when I plan to...
http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/95/1_classical_world.html I recommend the Rachmaninov 2 & 3. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
We kind of died here.... Do we have any volunteers to tackle another item of Strauss? I might be interested in doing "On Natural Law"... Any thoughts? Regards ...
... I was waiting for Mr. Lancaster to finish with Nihilism. I was about to do How Farabi Read Plato's Laws, as I have some very extravagant things to say...
Kalev; I enjoyed your close reading of Alfarabi (while, as you know, not agreeing with it) on another list and I would certainly enjoy hearing your thoughts on...
Joe Pomonomo writes: Kalev; I enjoyed your close reading of Alfarabi (while, as you know, not agreeing with it) on another list and I would certainly enjoy ...
Any attempt by me to do 'On Natural Law' will require three weeks... given a wee bit of last minute work that has been tossed my way. Regards Clifford Bates ...
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