Ciceronianus

As Trump (and others) might say, I suspect. But perhaps you're being ironic. If not, there's nothing like honesty.

I really don't know, I'm afraid. Many of us (lawyers) have a tendency to practice too long, I think. I saw someone who was an outstanding trial lawyer...

I argued a case before the 7th Circuit a few years ago. Them Judges ain't so smart.

I never kid myself, particularly not about the sad politics of our Glorious Union.

Well, there are some other things that impact actual people as well, you see, and she'll be on there for them as well.

She's apparently had remarkably little judicial experience (all of it in appeals court), and practiced law for a scant three years. She's an academic ...

One shot by the man in the apartment, thirty shots by the police is what I've heard.

I don't know Davidson. I was thinking more of Wittgenstein, Austin, Ryle and others. There's a value in showing the fly the way out of the bottle, and...

Perhaps its most significant function.

Analytic philosophy, as I understand it, is a tonic, a roborant. It's a cure for what ails philosophy to the extent philosophy is assailed by the grot...

Happily, I've never been involved in criminal law proceedings. But it's my understanding that grand juries know only what they've come to know through...

I prefer a funerary commemoration. DIS MANIBUS SACRUM Hic Iacet Ciceronianus the lawyer A mindful father A dutiful husband A helpful son and sibling A...

Yes. Probably. They will if they get the chance. They should not. They should not, because ideally the selection and approval process shouldn't be so ...

I recommend it highly. He seems to have done a great deal of research, and wrote well. Of course, it's also a fascinating subject. I live in the U.S.,...

Emperors were Arian as well. For example Contantius, the predecessor and cousin of Julian the Apostate (those were interesting times). Have you ever r...

I agree there was a reconstruction if not deconstruction in several ways. I think it a great loss, myself. Whether its a case of Christian "conditioni...

Yes. It must have been galling for them to consider themselves compared to what had been, ruling over provinces or parts of provinces of an Empire whi...

I doubt we of the West will ever get over the Roman Empire. We've always looked back to it, and I think we always will. Perhaps if Alexander had lived...

It's hard to say anything about it because its initiates apparently kept its secrets so well. Unless more is discovered, we're limited to the archaeol...

It seems to me Plotinus is merely trying to satisfy a perceived need by positing the existence of something, blessedly featureless and indistinct and ...

Thanks for the clarification. As I recall, Constantine himself was a fan of Sol Invictus--for a time and as convenient. A canny fellow, Constantine, b...

As far as I'm aware, Heliogabalus was another name for Elagabalus, one of the more curious Roman emperors. Though the cult of the emperors was widespr...

Dulce est desipere in loco.

Rome certainly conquered Judea. Pompey first sacked Jerusalem, and then effectively ruled it for some time through its client kings, the Herods. Then ...

Well, one does what one can.

Still? That slogan first started appearing on mammon here in the 1950's, as did the reference to God in the Pledge of Allegiance. Somehow, our Great R...

I intensely believe you're wrong. Therefore, there must be equally sufficient evidence that you are wrong. Q.E.D.

Well, Luther wasn't a Nazi. That's more than you can say about Heildegger, sorry Heidegger.

"Things merely are" to quote Simon Critchely about Wallace Stevens. Constituents of the universe may have purposes, which will vary with circumstances...

The technology discourages thought. The expression of anything which comes to mind is permitted and instantaneous, and even encouraged, especially in ...

It's one of those events that make me wish time-travel was possible. I'd be a fascinated onlooker.

Except perhaps here in God's Favorite Country. There are those among us who seem to relish the "old time religion" and glory in its defiance not only ...

It's a guess, really, but I think an educated guess. We have only Christian sources for this (the Acts of the Apostles if I recall correctly), but Pau...

Not that I can recall. And in fact Paul was quite adamant that intelligence was to be destroyed by God: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and th...

A speculation. Christianity's effort to combine what I think is the foundation of Western civilization (ancient pagan philosophy) with peculiarly Chri...

You might consider reading There is no Crime for those who have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire by Michael Gaddis regarding w...

You're not really claiming this is quote from Seneca, are you? I know that Christianity borrowed assiduously from the Stoics and other pagan philosoph...

That's just what it is to argue. See: https://vimeo.com/47833797

The "bathwater" are the beliefs peculiar to Christianity, such as the beliefs I've mentioned, which can easily be thrown out without disposing of the ...

Sorry, but I don't think you answer my question. I don't see how the claim that the rejection of Christian doctrine entails the rejection of some of t...

Just what ideas of ancient pagan philosophers do you think would have to be rejected if a specifically Christian theology is rejected? As far as I'm a...

The early Christians were quite fond of Seneca, and one (or more) of them even took the trouble of writing up a forged correspondence between him and ...

I value freedom as well. Government can certainly restrict freedom. I think it's improper for it to do so in some cases. I also think that government ...

You think the fact you recognize other have rights, money and property renders your insistence on having your own rights, money and property unselfish...

I find it disingenuous, if not dishonorable, to disguise the simple desire to keep one's possessions from others by platitudes about limiting the powe...

God forbid you be that concerned. But who would be forcing anyone to be concerned? It's not the mental state of people that would be impacted. They co...

They also may betray our confusion, ignorance or lack of understanding of language, its meaning and use. Or, they may apply in some context, and not i...

I don't know how many of those who have committed suicide or who contemplate suicide are making "autonomous, self-determined decisions." I don't think...

Agreements to commit a crime are generally void, and so unenforceable. So, anyone performing the service would want money up front. But even if there ...

Just so.