Sorry for the delay.. but my recovery and some other items prevented me sending this earlier. Let us turn to the next passage of Strauss's 'On Natural Law'. In...
Sorry for the delay.. but my recovery and some other items prevented me sending this earlier. Let us turn to the next passage of Strauss's 'On Natural Law'. In...
... I hope your recovery is going along nicely. ... I wonder about this problem as well, because in his lectures on the "Problem of Socrates" there is no...
Also worth noting within the context of this passage is the idea that what preceeds convention is the foundation for convention. In this case, Aristotle may...
I was was away for over a week (on a vacation from Warsaw and Poland giving me some time to recover and get ready for the forthcoming term) and only now have...
Clifford Bates writes: I was was away for over a week (on a vacation from Warsaw and Poland giving me some time to recover and get ready for the forthcoming...
Due to many factors, the least of which have been the start of a new term, I have been rather negligant with getting my slow-reading of Strauss' 'On Natural...
Let me quickly turn to paragraph 7. Its rather short.... and being short and being a bridge from the section on St. Thomas.. I thought to do it at the same...
Clifford Bates writes: _____ Let me quickly turn to paragraph 7. Its rather short.... and being short and being a bridge from the section on St. Thomas.. I...
Dear List Members: I have been thinking about pages 50-62 of City and Man, and I want to do a reading of it. These pages are some of the most important ones in...
Dear List Members: I am starting a bit down on page 52. I do urge you to write your commentary or comment on mine. Reading together is a nice Victorian...
I share Mr. Pehme's interest in this section, the first dozen pages of Strauss's discussion of the Republic. I have a general question about this text: why...
Dear List Members: I probably won’t have the time to make another posting until Wednesday at the earliest and more likely until this coming weekend. That ...
... Strauss's discussion of ... to drive anti- ... interpretation of ... even OCRd this ... ballistic, basically ... me. Also, it ... Republic. That is, you...
Dear List Members: George Gregory could not post directly to the list. I have included in this message his post and my reply. However, I believe everything...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: “But a ‘good writing’ is only the genus of which the Platonic dialogue is a species.” Note that what appears to...
Dear List Members: The next seven sentences, note the number, are among the most startling, funny, and terse enigmas that Strauss ever wrote. Moreover,...
Dear Kalev, A good project. Some remarks follow. ... to do a ... Funny?! -- Now that is worth thinking about. -- Strauss writes about Plato, and Kalev writes...
... pages of ... it seem ... Popper's ... perfect. I ... sense to ... rest ofhis ... the ... it is ... idealism of ... Plato was ... political ... However, the...
'The' Logos has had chapters ( books? ) written about it. There is one about Aristotle ( I'll have to rummage for it) which traces the history ot the term, and...
It seems Strauss launched a false dichotomy and went into orbit with it. My understanding was that socrates didn't write because writing was so vastly inferior...
I meant a running commentary in my last post, but sent prematurely. The balance of your post ( "Nevertheless, the pre-Socratic phil0sophers inferred ... tack,...
So, if a good conversation is "something conventional", then could one argue that a good conversation is "something moral"? Now most of us assume that Strauss'...
Good Mr. Pehme, I am not doing my own close reading here - just responding to your post... ... Mr. Pehme, can you get me the place in the Phaedrus that Strauss...
In my last post I asked Mr. Pehme for a reference in the Phaedrus. As I look at the page in C&M now, I see it listed right there in the footnote: Phaedrus...
Patrick Mora writes: _____ Good Mr. Pehme, I am not doing my own close reading here - just responding to your post... ... Mr. Pehme, can you get me the place...
Dear Paul, I don't know what you are asking. On p. 51 of City and Man, Strauss ends the first complete paragraph on that page with the statement that "The...
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