Steve Sorensen ended a response to Cameron Wybrow with an interesting statement. [Cameron]: "On matters of interpreting texts I really do believe that it *is*...
1894
Steve Sorensen
ssorens@xxxx.xxxxxxx....
Apr 1, 1999 2:03 pm
... Why? Why are you spoiling for a fight, Mr. Wybrow? ... This definition is stated explicitly in LAM, p. 7. Strauss is simply echoing things said by Plato,...
1895
Steve Sorensen
ssorens@xxxx.xxxxxxx....
Apr 1, 1999 2:04 pm
... I have no idea. Nor do I care. Regards, Steve Sorensen...
1896
Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Apr 1, 1999 2:26 pm
I occurs to me that I ought to have done this paragraph as well with the other two I did yesterday, as they are so interrelated. So I will do this one and then...
1897
Michael Mills
mills@xxx.xxxx
Apr 1, 1999 6:32 pm
... The idea that any philosopher possesses all human greatnesses reminds me of a remark Allan Bloom used to make. He described a certain kind of modern ...
1898
Steve Sorensen
ssorens@xxxx.xxxxxxx....
Apr 1, 1999 7:12 pm
... But I did not say that one can never know if one interpretation is better than another. It is odd that you accuse me of deprecating reason altogether in...
1899
mecurius@xxxxx.xxx
Apr 1, 1999 8:53 pm
... No, it was not as a medical emissary that I was thinking that Mengele belonged with the Romans, nor for his horsemanship that he shares something with the...
1900
Cameron Wybrow
wybrowc@xxxxxx.xxx.xx...
Apr 2, 1999 3:37 am
... Is questioning unproved assertions of very large scope and importance spoiling for a fight? Then are not all philosophers always spoiling for a fight?...
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Cameron Wybrow
wybrowc@xxxxxx.xxx.xx...
Apr 2, 1999 4:29 am
... You should care, because the answer is at the very heart of our current dispute. If, for example, Lewis could understand every word of Strauss's ...
1902
Cameron Wybrow
wybrowc@xxxxxx.xxx.xx...
Apr 2, 1999 5:22 am
... I agree that they are separate questions, and in fact have insisted on separating them. Nor have I ever denied that it is "possible" that someone could...
1903
JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
Apr 2, 1999 2:33 pm
Cameron Wybrow and Steve Sorensen had the following exchange: ************** From: Steve Sorensen <ssorens@...> ... The difference between us, Mr....
1904
JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
Apr 2, 1999 2:33 pm
I got into the following debate with Steve Sorensen: ••••••••••••• ... self-evident ... all ... one ... set ... possible, I ... ...
1905
JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
Apr 2, 1999 2:33 pm
John Grant wrote: "Dear Mr. Wenger, "Let me preface my question by stating that I am certainly no mathematician. But is the choice between Euclidean and...
1906
JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
Apr 2, 1999 2:33 pm
Cameron Wybrow said, "I agree with Mr. Pehme that Cornford and Strauss are to be put on a lower plane than that of Plato. My point to Mr. Sorensen was that on...
1907
JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
Apr 2, 1999 2:33 pm
Kalev Pehme has written an excellent reply to my post. Here is the exchange. ************* From: "Kalev Pehme" <pehme@...> ... What wisdom would...
1908
JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
Apr 2, 1999 2:33 pm
Kalev Pehme has shredded my medical argument concerning the joyless quest for joy; he said: ************* From: "Kalev Pehme" <pehme@...> ... Now,...
1909
JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
Apr 2, 1999 2:33 pm
Dan Watkins has sent the following fascinating post: •••••••••••••••• From: Dan Watkins <dwatkins@...> ... e. ... you ...
1910
Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Apr 2, 1999 3:01 pm
John Wenger writes: [snip] ... The liberation of the human being is of paramount concern to modernity, particularly liberation from the constraints of the...
1911
Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Apr 2, 1999 3:19 pm
John Wenger writes: [snip] ... No, our modern experience is that the contemporary tyrant wants to put as much distance between himself and philosophy as...
1912
Lancelot Fletcher
lancelot.fletcher@xxx...
Apr 2, 1999 3:29 pm
... Imperial Rome are acknowledged by Machiavelli and Gibbon to be the happiest time in human history." Is it possible that Machiavelli and Gibbon were...
1913
Dan Watkins
dwatkins@xxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 2, 1999 4:28 pm
... search ... lucking ... third ... superior ... ordinary ... out ... can ... Actually, I agree with this, and had wondered back in the WIPP discussion if LS...
1914
Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Apr 2, 1999 3:46 pm
... Talk about Hannah Arendt, have you read _Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss_, the book by Keilmansegg, Mewes, and Glaser-Schmidt? If you did, would you venture...
1915
Dan Watkins
dwatkins@xxxxxx.xxxx
Apr 2, 1999 5:03 pm
... beings ... not ... Yes, this is how I see it, too. ... that ... I would say that, if I can't know that there is another, then the question of whether there...
1916
Michael Mills
mills@xxx.xxxx
Apr 2, 1999 5:39 pm
... How can I resist? Well, actually I'm at work and this question calls for a good bit of leisure to answer properly -- as you say, it is a very good ...
1917
John W. Grant
jgrant@xxxx.xxxxxxx.x...
Apr 2, 1999 5:44 pm
Dear Mr. Wenger, Thanks for the clear and helpful reply. I look forward to the rest of your exposition. Happy Easter, John Grant...
1918
John W. Grant
jgrant@...
Apr 2, 1999 5:48 pm
The problem of consent and tyranny was not unknown to our own Founders, who saw very clearly that there is a tension between liberty (consent) and protection...
1919
John W. Grant
jgrant@...
Apr 2, 1999 5:50 pm
One should remember that for Machiavelli the Roman model was really not something to be emulated-it failed after all, defeated by Christianity of all things!...
1920
Steve Sorensen
ssorens@...
Apr 2, 1999 6:05 pm
... I have no idea what you mean by "epistemologically unjustified." There can, of course, be no "reliable method" for judging intellectual capacity; for the ...
1921
Steve Sorensen
ssorens@...
Apr 2, 1999 5:43 pm
... How does your argument differ from that given in the Laws for the primacy of soul over matter? For it is hardly the modern's who are the first to argue...
1922
Steve Sorensen
ssorens@...
Apr 2, 1999 5:55 pm
... I fully agree. I hope now we can dispense with all discussion as to what criteria should be used to judge who is worth reading and who is not. Regards, ...
