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...
Dear George Thank you for your reply. It would have been clearer if I had phrased my question better and said, "So the perception of irony is something which...
Dear Paul, ... Since Strauss is apparently himself doing what he comments on, i.e., speaking differently to different people and in a written speech, he seems...
George Gregory writes: _____ [snip] "We may say...." -- So, if Socrates has wise thoughts and he is surrounded by buffoons, he will dissimulate. Wonderful!...
Thank you both for your posts. I daresay there is a great deal more work I could and should do, something I'm always reminded of when George speaks to me. I...
...forgive me if this was answered and I missed it. I'm curious if any critic of Strauss has published a rebuttal or refutation or commentary on these first 12...
Last night, in between reading Kalev's section on logographic necessity (I've only got that far), I took a look at the Rivals, and was struck that there is a...
Irony is one form of figurative speech, belonging to rhetoric. It is also used for humour; from the Wiki: Notable studies of humour have come from the pens of ...
Dear George, Excellent comments, as usual. Being angry with Socrates is surely out of favor these days. This is not true for Leo Strauss. Out of favor too is...
Dear Paul, ... A real gem! I would like to take a peek behind the apparent irony here. -- I'll speak in terms of what "we" think, but what I'll say will show...
Dear J, Good to hear from you! ... No, seriously, you mean it is not out of favor to be angry with Strauss. ... For sure, and I'm not sure why. I mean, if it...
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