On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:36:11 -0400 ... That deserves emphasis. In one of his stories (I don't recall the title, but it is in the volume of fragments,...
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Peter Jerebic
peter.jerebic@...
Sep 3, 2003 9:08 am
I'm sure someone here is familiar with Paul Friedlaender's three volume study on Plato. I'd like to know, if its english translation (Pantheon Books, 1958 or ...
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Glenn (Chip) Hughes
philglen@...
Sep 3, 2003 2:58 pm
I have been using Friedlander's 3-volume *Plato* on and off for 25 years. I know of no abridged form--the first volume addresses Plato in thematic chapters,...
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FMasingill@...
Sep 3, 2003 3:36 pm
I would be surprised to find any agreement with me on the primary point of this message. I have been reading a paperback, Catholic University, publication of ...
Mr. Masingill -- I'm not sure that it's possible to engage in a discussion of the issue you raise without engaging in a discussion of the abortion issue....
To the EV forum – David Walsh probably can defend himself adequately without assistance from me, but it is worth noting that, although his statement in After...
The MIT calendar for the year beginning now states "The Department of Linguistics and Philosophy currently offers two undergraduate programs leading to the...
Tolkien hated Lewis's Narnian books for how they jammed different mythical entities together and probably for the "parodic" Christianity. On Tue, 2 Sep 2003...
Thanks very much for posting that, Mr. Cole. If this is his conclusion, then he's really arguing from nothing more than his feelings or, in other words, his...
I haven't read the Cole book, but I suggest that one has to get a little fundamentalist here. The first principles to which I presume students of Voegelin ...
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FMasingill@...
Sep 3, 2003 9:31 pm
In a message dated 9/3/2003 3:23:27 PM Central Daylight Time, kleinyy@... writes: If I were to argue with someone over abortion , I would start by...
What I meant to spell out earlier was that to those who don't see a difference between an unborn fetus and a "conscious human being," the comparison between...
Actually, Mr. Masingill, the apology is due to you. I "took off" on the issue of abortion per se without addressing the issue you raised, which is worth ...
Listmember Roberto Buffagni forwarded a message to me to post to the list. Mr. Buffagni, like quite a number of list members, is unknown to me personally and...
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Walsh, David J.
walshd@...
Sep 4, 2003 4:44 pm
List members: Thank you for the kind attention to my book, it's all the more appreciated for the almost twenty years when it was written. I have not moderated...
I'm very grateful for this post, because it is much to the point. These days, it is easily possible to eradicate an entire city, or hundreds of cities, with a...
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FMasingill@...
Sep 4, 2003 5:31 pm
In a message dated 9/4/2003 11:18:39 AM Central Daylight Time, fjw@... writes: I'll try to suggest a different point of view (I am a playwright, not a...
Frank, I disagree with what you write here and what many others also seem to believe on the issue. ... It is my view that the abortionist is fully aware that...
... Overall, I agree. In public debate about the abortion issue, however, the "pro-choice" side tends to emphasize that a fetus is not fully human. Aruging...
I haven't said anything, actually. That was Mr. Pagnan. But I do like the lines quoted by Voegelin from Shakespeare's Sonnet 129, which EV was applying to...
Frederick, Nice post. Have a triple crossing Marsala on me. Martin P. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Maxim Faust
maxim.faust@...
Sep 5, 2003 2:45 am
Neither have I read Walsh's tract, but the comparison at issue is now frequently deployed, and so a parroting from a scholar who should be more judicious. The...
What signs are there, in the last 100 years, that the liberal democracies are successfully resisting dehumanization? On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:40:51 -0400 "Walsh,...
Dear Mr. Masingill, thank you very much for your warm kindness. If you don't mind, I'll explain a little better my opinion. I do not think that a comparison...
I think that whatever resources contemporary liberal polities possess to resist enormities such as mass abortion, and other contemporary enormities not to be ...
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Maxim Faust
maxim.faust@...
Sep 6, 2003 2:07 am
Off line, a sensitive reader reminded me that a person is responsible to the language he is given, but only responsible for the meanings he intends. About the...
Point taken, but this is *not* the view of teachers of rhetoric, i..e, "a person is responsible to the language he is given, but only responsible for the...
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Maxim Faust
maxim.faust@...
Sep 8, 2003 2:31 am
Dear Mr. Knauss, Thanks for the notice. The questions implied in the first sentence of the concluding paragraph seem to struggle against the "first rule" that ...
