Dear Ray Happy new year to you too. I fear I am one of those you mention in your message who conflate true and good and beautiful. I don't know if they are...
Dear List Members: I hope you are not suffering from hang-overs. I am nearly finished my reading, with only one paragraph to go. Strauss writes: "When Socrates...
Paul, The first question is if there is any necessary confluence between any of the three. On inspection there seems to be little beyond a desire to fulfill a...
Dear List Members: I come to the final part of my reading of the introduction of this essay. I hope that some kind of discussion will be aroused by my reading....
Paul Waters writes: Dear Ray Happy new year to you too. I fear I am one of those you mention in your message who conflate true and good and beautiful. I don't...
Paul Waters writes: ________________________________________ Dear Kalev ... How do you - you personally - make a determination about what is the right and the...
... By the Divine Augustus you are right! It is a good analogy, but it is not the truth. Perhaps it is even a beautiful analogy, but it remains but an...
... Ok, perhaps I worded that poorly. The subject, as I understood it, was to see if the good, the true, and the beautiful were one. Given that, then the...
Dear Kalev and Ray I'll attempt to respond on the good, true, beautiful, etc. As I said, I don't know much about the Holy Trinity, and I am not a Christian....
Paul Waters writes: Dear Kalev and Ray I'll attempt to respond on the good, true, beautiful, etc. As I said, I don't know much about the Holy Trinity, and I am...
Ray Valle writes: [snip] ... By the Divine Augustus you are right! It is a good analogy, but it is not the truth. Perhaps it is even a beautiful analogy,...
... I believe we have a fundamentally different understand of Dao (Pinyin spelling is the preferred english rendition of the idiograph) as well as Yin and...
... I really was not trying to turn this into a discussion of Christianity. I meant only that by equating the three you created a unique "one" that must be...
Ray Valle writes: I believe we have a fundamentally different understand of Dao (Pinyin spelling is the preferred english rendition of the idiograph) as well ...
Ray Valle writes: [snip] Who was uglier, Socrates or Strauss? --Seems like a question we ought to bring to the oracle at Delphi. Best regards, Kalev Pehme...
Thanks Steve, I found it there but I would have spelled it a bit differently in English. Either way of spelling does not appear in any English or American...
--Thanks to Mr. Pehme for his reading of pp. 50 to 62 of City and Man. There is a great deal there to think about and also take issue with. But I have no wish...
--The intro to CM is divided in two. The first half ends at p. 6. It concludes with a twofold lesson provided to the "Western movement" by "the experience of...
--Classical antiquity is not something which is simply neglected. Antiquarians and romantics turn to classical antiquity. Their motives are not Strauss's....
--In the preface to that book in which Strauss presents his "real work" we find another reason for the turn to classical political philosophy: According to...
--In his introduction, Strauss makes a point of identifying the kind of work he is engaged in: history of political philosophy. He thus draws attention to the...
--The importance of social science as the beginning point for Strauss's dialectic is consistent from On Tyranny through his last work, Studies in Platonic...
sorry to cause a rukus and then diasappear... mac died on me and i have alot of projects going. thanks, and later. __________________________________ Do you...
--In the chapter on the Republic, Strauss notes that the situation in which the discussion presented in the Republic takes place is one of decay (p. 63): "We...
Seems to have gone quiet here lately I find these lines particuarly interesting: It was Plato's will to power, not his understanding of Socrates, not anything...
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