Dear Cathal Yes, the statement about the ergon of the human, and the statement about ergon of the serious man, seem to be the only two independent statements ...
Andrew Lancaster
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Dear Cathal I think spoudaios and arete are connected in as much as they are excellences. Agathos is close enough to English good. Now you can be good at...
Andrew Lancaster
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Oct 14, 2000 10:19 pm
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hi andrew - i'm not exactly following how your relative/absolute distinction is supposed to apply to spoudaios. you give the example of a human who is good at...
cal woods
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Oct 16, 2000 5:17 pm
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*Comments interspersed Message text written by cathal ... i'm not exactly following how your relative/absolute distinction is supposed to apply to spoudaios....
Andrew Lancaster
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Oct 16, 2000 5:41 pm
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I have addressed some questions to Mr Bates, which were pretty rough. Some of the terminolical issues have now been discssued with some other list members. One...
Andrew Lancaster
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Oct 17, 2000 8:55 pm
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Dear Andrew and et al, Andrew thanks for your nice comments... I have only just saw the flurry of posts on this issue today.. and have only superficially read...
Clifford Bates
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Oct 22, 2000 11:03 am
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Note from list owner: The following message was originally posted on Sept. 26. Because I have the list configured so that new subscribers are automatically...
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Oct 22, 2000 5:07 pm
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... The answer is: Both or (sometimes) neither. There have been times when we engaged in a consecutive "slow reading" of the politics -- when the discussion...
Lancelot R. Fletcher
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Oct 22, 2000 5:16 pm
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Dear Mr Bates I apologise that I can't help as a professional. Instead of providing a good proposed answer to start to search what you are looking for, a new ...
Andrew Lancaster
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Oct 22, 2000 6:27 pm
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Dear All, Although I am writing this as a reponce to an on-going discussion at the Aristotle's Politics mail list, I would like to get some feedback on my...
Clifford Angell Bates...
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Oct 28, 2000 10:45 am
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29/10/00 Clifford, Cathal and list I have not read Clifford's new post yet, so this is an independent attempt to revisit some issues. So sorry if covers some...
Andrew Lancaster
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Oct 29, 2000 10:25 am
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Message text written by clifford bates ... any time. He is not limited to any type of regime, else he would cease being a universal type. The issue is that...
Andrew Lancaster
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Oct 29, 2000 10:31 am
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Message text written by Clifford Bates ... Er, just to clarify something.. in a tyranny there can only be one citizen, the tyrannt. All the rest are subjects....
Andrew Lancaster
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Oct 29, 2000 10:40 am
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Message text written by clifford bates ... Virtue (arete) is primary not so much effectiveness but doing the right thing, in the right way, at the right time...
Andrew Lancaster
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Message text written by Clifford Betes ... I think the issue is not so much effectiveness.. but that of his character and his nature. Yes his doings will (and...
Andrew Lancaster
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Lancelot R. Fletcher
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Check this out... Look at what the Arendt students did to make available Arendt's papers!!!! http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/arendthtml/arendthome.html Too bad the...
Here is Arnhart wrote to me regarding his blurb: ======================================================================= Dear Clifford: I have just been...
I am pleased to announce the formation of a new group for slow readings of Plato's Apology of Socrates. The discussion leader will be Angela Cembrola who has...
I will be away from internet access from August 10 until August 17 (I will be vacationing in a cottage on the shore of the Black Sea in Sarpi -- about 130 km....
This invitation pertains to two different groups. One is the plato-phaedo list, the other is a list called philosophy2. Both are groups that existed in the...
I has somewhat of a eureka moment this afternoon. As some of my know I am doing work on the concept of sovereignty, which for the most part is a modern...
My plato-timaeus list has been quiet for some time, but a few subscribers have recently indicated a desire to launch a slow reading of this dialogue. If you...
I am thinking about doing a run through of the Politics this summer. I wonder if there might be some interest if I kinda did it here and get feed back or even...
Does anyone have a scanned copy of Lord's translation that they could lend me? Also I would like to start in a different place in the Politics. Normally ...
Well the Politics has 8 chapters that can be separated into 5 parts. Part I—the city and the household (Book 1) Part 2—the best regimes in theory and...
Thanks Steve… I didn’t do it right, but I didn’t notice the problem until someone wrote to me about it. The opening set the connection between the polis...