Leghorn

This discussion makes me think of the philosophers; for so many of them have been convicted of their ideas which, allegedly, led to corruption and sla...

@"god must be atheist" Your “hapless chap” seems to me to be like a piece of cardboard you pull out of a nearby dumpster or chance upon in the trunk o...

You can’t commercialize true ownership. If you want to own some property, especially if nobody else cares about it (in which case it is especially des...

I remember reading Thoreau, where he talked about visiting others’ “property” to enjoy the natural phenomena on it: he said he got much more out of th...

Wealth is pretty common now in the USA. I’m about to receive my third stimulus check, and my sister, worth over $2 million, is receiving hers too. But...

To discover the goal or purpose of a human being shouldn’t we first investigate the clearer purposes of the other things in nature? For example, what ...

Out of curiosity I just Googled my own name. Of course, the famous tennis player topped the list, and I was a tournament player in my own day; but I d...

Well, and so am I. I reveal information about the character of where I live, its general location, my sex and race, certain details of my life that on...

@"Jack Cummins" Your response to my post has caused me to take closer consideration of the notion of “publishing” something... ...in its basic meaning...

@"Adam Hilstad" Where appropriate? Where is it not appropriate to find beauty or make something beautiful? But what is beauty? It is either in the eye...

@"Jack Cummins" Life must and will be lived by everyone: we all go about our everyday lives doing the things we do, speaking with our ppl, having our ...

America, as I perceive it, was founded, not on the rights of racial groups or any other sort; it was rather founded on the rights of individual men (h...

The reason we eschew hierarchy in this day and time is because the whole world, fostered by The Enlightenment, has come to perceive that “all men are ...

The actual teaching of today’s culture is that there are no natural hierarchies: hierarchies are orders of things that man invents in order to oppress...

If I recall correctly, the ancient Greeks exercised naked in the gymnasia...the males, that is. For there was (generally, of course) no danger of male...

I offer a sentiment written by someone who may have been one of the last philosophers for your approval or disapproval: “And here is where the whole b...

I assume you meant to say something like, “Is it because of all the centuries during which men ascribed to women the source of evil?” Well, let me jus...

Why is “toxic femininity” not a currently operable phrase?

The countries or states that got off easy in the first wave or two got whammied in the third, etc. The vaccine has been a stop-gap to the spread, but ...

@"Fooloso4". As an addendum, let me note that, aside from the reasonings you have given in this and the other thread, what struck me most was your lac...

@"Fooloso4". I took a little trip over to the esotericism thread to see what was going on, and my impression was something both Bloom and his teacher ...

@"Fooloso4". Consider if this excerpt from Bloom’s interpretive essay on The Republic isn’t an accurate description of Jaffa: “The divided line and th...

Ha ha! Good joke. But I regret that that site was cancelled. I spent a good bit of time on it around 2004-6 (?). There was a guy on there who was very...

Thanks for the New Republic piece. It WAS interesting... ...it caused me to recall a refutation of Jaffa’s criticism of Bloom I composed and published...

@"Fooloso4" The reason I have not yet responded to you is because our debate caused me to feel the need to do some research first: I felt the need to ...

Here is the actual quote from “Closing of the American Mind”: “Achilles’ laments and complaints about why he must die for the Greeks and for his frien...

All I can say is that I am more honorableor than I deserve that my thesis has resulted in such ongoing discussion...I only wish I had the time to part...

Thanks for the Xenophon quote. It seems not to require more context for understanding, yet I am perplexed by it: how would Socrates’ acceptance of dea...

I think the answer to that question lies in the philosopher’s notion of his relation to civil society, or to the political community. Both the ancient...

Btw, I agree with your general analysis. There might just be a few quibbles. In the above statement of yours, I agree with all its sentiments except f...

Btw, I don’t care much for babies: I like for them to grow old enough to talk to and play with. After that I am delighted in them. As for pussy, I don...

I agree. There is bias in all reporting of news, whether it comes from the left or the right. For example, when CNN headlines “Firey But Mostly Peacef...

I appreciate your honesty, James, and it says a lot about your character that you confess the truth. But I already suspected it was unintentional judg...

...like Tiger would have done.

Was it by wisdom that the masses voted him in in the first place? We let the wolf in the door...and he wasn’t even dressed in sheep’s clothing! We all...

One added letter, a “y” right after “horn”, would have made this a perfect post, Mr. Praxis. Not really. Though technically speaking he was still all ...

The most useful skill is how to acquire and keep a state. If Trump had possessed this skill he would now be Dictator of the USA, instead of a private ...

Well, here’s something else we can add to the list of things we have in common! Fear and shame of doing stupid laughable things is characteristic of y...

I assume you are speaking of family and friends, of co-workers , of ppl who you personally know and meet with/talk to on a regular basis, like the guy...

@"synthesis". If you look back at the quote by counterpunch you were responding to, you’ll notice he was speaking of the distant both past and future,...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". By “for their own sake” I suppose you mean “just because they are secrets”. The problem with that though is that they are secret...

If there is uncertainty among the participants in this discussion what freedom means, maybe it would be good to come to an agreement about it. I propo...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". Well, let me ask it this way: with whom are we most willing to share the secrets about our bodies? Isn’t it our physician? And w...

But you upbraided synthesis for trying to be someone else: So, apparently, at least some ppl aren’t always just being themselves, but are impressed en...

Ah vhe! You mean no more Alcibiades stumbling into Plato’s Symposium?...what a shame...what a loss!

What does “being yourself” mean? That presupposes you know who and what you really are. Is that knowledge so evident and obvious? Has the Delphic Orac...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". You didn't answer my question, O Hedomenos: Are you willing to answer it or not?

@"Harry Hindu". “ students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guid...

@"TheHedoMinimalist". I assume you mean that, when you tell someone secrets, that they get the impression you can be generally trusted to tell the tru...

An observation that may be amusing, or alarming, or both, to some of you... In the last few days I’ve witnessed a fellow driving a medium-sized pickup...