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...
You know that never occurred to me, it just shows one can read, think and learn. David....
David North
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Dec 7, 2004 11:11 pm
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--Are you pulling our leg(s)? Just kidding...I believe you. How long does it take a kangaroo to get across the Sydney Harbour bridge? ... From: "David North"...
Don't know, I can't keep up. Anyway didn't you know they can swim? And one species, the qantas, can fly. No kidding! cheers (no always serious) David....
David North
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Dec 8, 2004 12:08 am
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Hi Dave and Dan, Take it from the ozzie's rap, ( a one, a two, a one two three four ) two audiences... those who take it seriously and those who see it as a...
Somehow my paragraph breaks were lost in the last post. Makes it blither a bit more than it should ?( oh dear). well I'll take it as an opportunity to add ...
Hello Mr. (?) Blake (?), --The list moderator has linked an essay of his which outlines his notion of slow reading. He helpfully points to Nietzsche's warning...
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