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@"NOS4A2" Allan Bloom on Leo Strauss: “...Strauss was acutely aware of the abuses to which the public expression of philosophy is subject. Philosophy ...

Just received such from Mr.Garcia, and questioned him as to why he invited me to visit his website. His answer was contradictory and vague, so I quest...

“Theoria, a looking at, viewing beholding,...of the mind, contemplation, speculation, Plat , etc.” from Liddell and Scott. The word speculation itself...

@"T Clark" I am weedeating a steep bank. I slip and fall and, in attempting to catch myself, impale a sharp-ended woody stalk into my left wrist... .....

In the Republic, Plato’s Socrates corrects the Athenians in the traditional interpretation of their gods, showing them how those views are not rationa...

This discussion reminds me of the criticism directed at Rousseau: that he did not raise any of his several children, but instead had them all sent off...

Wouldn’t you actually have to roll it an infinite number of times for any of the six sides to land facing up exactly one-sixth of the time? We are, of...

@"Banno" That is pure coincidence, as it is my actual name. My real name is Todd Martin... it is on my birth certificate. Is your real name Banno? If ...

@"Banno" In surfing around in this forum, I don’t much see @"jamalrob", its putative owner, but I often see you. The most conspicuous members of an ol...

It is one thing if @"NOS4A2" believes speech has no power only because he wants to exonerate Trump; another entirely, if he held this opinion prior to...

The notion of free speech as a natural right of man has its origins in the teachings of the Enlightenment, and arose as a means of protecting the phil...

I wish you had participated in the last installment of that thread, when I suggested that the moderators not ban anyone until they had expressed their...

@"Tom Storm" My bad then. It just seems that your reluctance to answer me combined with your dismissiveness suggested that. Clearly though you are not...

I get the feeling that you despise me. Is that true?

The main personal way I perceive advertisement on tv as bad is that it detracts from the actual programming, the thing we turned it on to see in the f...

@"Tom Storm" Mr. Storm, I’m still not at all sure what you’re talking about. Do you mean to say that ppl who travel a lot and use “substances” are the...

@"180 Proof" You speak like a member of the oligarchy...are you? I feel like Joe Manchin: yes, I think your proposal is an improvement, and I would vo...

I was threatened with a ban several months ago for espousing a very doctrinaire opinion of ancient philosophy which, however, collided with a very rec...

The rule in this forum is in the hands of an oligarchy. There may be nothing inherently wrong with that. My point is that this little group of all-pow...

I don’t disagree that there should be guidelines. But the nature of guidelines need not consist in the potentially arbitrary rule of an oligarchy.

@"Banno" I was referring not to the opinion of the person banned, but rather to that of the other members who oppose it.

It is the character of a tyrant to consider opposing opinions to be the work of those wishing to take away his powers.

Instead of debating the justice of bans after they have already been enacted, why should we not do so before? Wouldn’t this be more democratic? Wouldn...

The phrase “responsible adult” elicits an image of the citizen who “fits in”, takes a stable well-paying job, perhaps marries, has children, raises th...

Nay Mr. Storm, in my opinion what distinguishes modernity from antiquity is rather the notion that there is no problem that cannot be solved, includin...

@"Fooloso4" You have reminded me of Cleitophon, O Morosophos: Socrates: Cleitophon...as someone was just telling us, was conversing with Lysias and cr...

Reminds me of the old riddle, “A father and son were involved in an automobile accident. Responders on the scene pronounced the father dead, but rushe...

Yeah, ya never know nowadays.

I think you meant to say, “he cannot simply be taken at face value”. I have not read these commentaries of Strauss’, but my impression in reading the ...

Yes, I would agree with all that, Mr. Baker. But I would emend “into their 70s” to read “into their 80s and even 90s.” I live with a woman in her late...

What’s the difference between these two sets of writers? One adheres to and attempts to further the original purpose of the Enlighteners: to dryly and...

Sounds like I’m maybe a decade or so older than you, but I find it surprising that you call music of the 70s ugly. Of course, some of it was, but cert...

I’m amazed that anyone of little acquaintance with pop/rock/rap music could be found nowadays. It plays everywhere you go, or if you stay home. It inf...

Is this the life that science promised us when we were lead out of the dark ages into the light of technology? that we would, in the twenty-first cent...

This whole artificial distinction between science and philosophy has something to do with the loss or banishment of the aristocracy: to truly understa...

I think you have gotten to the root here, Mr. Contrapuncte. Allow me approach this situation from a linguistic perspective... ...the understanding of ...

That is why the modern philosopher, the scientist in his lab-coat, is ambiguous: does he really only want to discover the truth about nature, or is hi...

I don’t know enough about this; but I suspect that it was Machiavelli’s suggestion that Fortune can be overcome—at odds with ancient philosophy’s beli...

I make no causal connection b/w his survival and the quality of his music. My point is that, despite the fact that many more ppl died young in olden t...

In other words, “the music is nothing if the audience is deaf”.

Well, both Keats and Mozart defied that infant mortality rate, and produced some of the best music and poetry known to man, though neither lived beyon...

My girlfriend once related a dream to me in which there was a scarcity of collard greens in the area. Now, knowing her well, I immediately perceived t...

No need of scientific method here, just obvious rationality: Socrates has outlived and will outlive every one of us mere mortals. Isn’t he still on ou...

@"TheMadFool" This reminded me of a time when I lived in a boarding-house, a large southern house dating back to the mid-19th century, with a large ca...

@"TheMadFool" You should have punctuated with a question mark in my case. I am not university-taught. I learned to read Latin solely from books, and i...

@"TheMadFool" You have honored me and my knowledge, sir.

@"TheMadFool" No comment on the philosophy (I know nothing about Descartes), just a comment on the Latin. veritatem mendaciis is poor in a couple ways...

The ancient notion is that reason should rule the passions (emotions). It is that idea that has been overcome in modernity, replaced by the notion tha...

There are two different phenomena at work here: hyper-advanced egalitarianism, that wants everything, including human beings, to be absolutely equal; ...

Science became what we now know it to be only after the Enlightenment. Before then, scientists were “natural philosophers”, where nature in this sense...