Addison Howe writes: [big snip regarding the Roman economy for space] As for the Roman money system, it was primarily coinage; however, they did have a banking...
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
May 1, 1999 1:04 pm
... Mr. Gibson's excellent post is worthy of rereading. In Strauss's essay on Thucycides in CM, Strauss sharply defines "Greekness" as seen by Thucycides,...
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JCWENGER@...
May 2, 1999 2:53 pm
In reply to a question from Cameron Wybrow, Michael Mills wrote the following (in part): "I'm not sure about the application to the question about reason and ...
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JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
May 2, 1999 2:53 pm
Chuck Salvo writes, ********* [John Wenger wrote] ... I believe what you are wanting to say is that solving such problems, which is really the inverse of...
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JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
May 2, 1999 2:53 pm
I am still a week behind, but I just read Michael Mills' discussion of what he calls knowledge1 and knowledge2, and I think he is captured what is going on...
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JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
May 2, 1999 2:53 pm
I wrote, "Michael says there is no obvious way to avoid the pitfalls in either approach. I wonder; why couldn't we start out the way Strauss does, and when we...
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JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
May 2, 1999 2:53 pm
Cameron Wybrow wrote, "I acknowledge the force of this objection, and in fact it is the same objection John raised against me a few nights ago. I accept that...
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JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
May 2, 1999 2:53 pm
Steve Sorensen writes, ********** From: Steve Sorensen <ssorens@...> ... I do not think it "comes down to a matter of definition." For while you...
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JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
May 2, 1999 2:53 pm
Cameron Wybrow wrote in part, "But there has been debate in mathematics. In the seventeenth century, Hobbes carried on a great debate with Wallis about ...
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Cameron Wybrow
wybrowc@xxxxxx.xxx.xx...
May 2, 1999 4:54 pm
... I do oppose any crude equation between philosophy and mathematics or philosophy and logic. That is not the same as denying *any* similarity between...
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Chuck Salvo
chucks@xxxx.xxxx
May 2, 1999 5:07 pm
... [John Wenger wrote] ... deductive; ... up ... As for "computable or algorithmic", that will get us deep into the bowels of logic, computer science and...
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Cameron Wybrow
wybrowc@xxxxxx.xxx.xx...
May 2, 1999 5:31 pm
... Agreed; saving the phenomena is not the same as demonstrating a truth. The philosopher wants truth. The practical astronomer, guiding the captain on a sea...
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Chuck Salvo
chucks@xxxx.xxxx
May 2, 1999 7:55 pm
... [Cameron Wybrow wrote] ... Well, now you've gotten to the point. I say philosophy is unlike mathematics, but it seems we are discussing that proverbial...
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Cameron Wybrow
wybrowc@xxxxxx.xxx.xx...
May 3, 1999 2:57 am
... I think so. ... I am not competent to discuss Popper on this question (or the many people who say that Popper is an idiot). I did not mean induction and...
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Chuck Salvo
chucks@xxxx.xxxx
May 4, 1999 4:39 am
... No, there is no reason, actually it is required. Because a reader cannot read a past philosopher in isolation. He must be read in the light of criticisms...
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Cameron Wybrow
wybrowc@xxxxxx.xxx.xx...
May 4, 1999 5:57 am
... I haven't read Nozick; you may expand on the last two sentences if you wish, because they are too compact. ... Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say "any"...
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David Wilfinger
DJW@xxxxxxx.xxxx
May 4, 1999 2:21 pm
Next Paragraph: It is true that political life is concerned primarily with the individual community to which the people happen to belong, and mostly even with ...
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Michael Mills
mills@xxx.xxxx
May 4, 1999 7:50 pm
... I once read an anthropologist who came up with a very elaborate theory about the group he was studying, and the justification he gave to prove his theory ...
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chuck salvo
chucks@xxxx.xxxx
May 12, 1999 1:06 am
The May 20 issue of the New York Review of Books has a review that addresses the following points: -- The logical and ontological status of intinitesimals --...
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John Grant
jgrant@xxxx.xxxxxxx.x...
May 17, 1999 7:11 pm
Does anyone know of any Straussians who have written on Goethe (especially on *Faust*)? Thanks, John Grant...
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Mark Gibson
mgibson@xxx.xx.xxx
May 20, 1999 8:17 pm
Am I still subscribed? Have received nothing in the past week......
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kosta.simopoulos@xxxx...
May 20, 1999 8:19 pm
yep...
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Yaakov Abrahamson
yaakov@...
May 20, 1999 9:24 pm
... Shalom Mark Something strange is afoot for none of us has heard a word in over a week. Hope Lance is O.K. Kol tuv, Yaakov...
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Scott Michael Alexander
smalexa@...
May 20, 1999 11:15 pm
** Reply to note from Mark Gibson <mgibson@...> Thu, 20 May 1999 13:17:50 -0700 (PDT) ... Yes. Shalom u'Bracha, Scott Alexander ...
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Scott Michael Alexander
smalexa@...
May 20, 1999 11:15 pm
** Reply to note from Yaakov Abrahamson <yaakov@...> Thu, 20 May 1999 16:24:02 -0500 ... I think school is out or something. Shalom u'Bracha, Scott...
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kosta.simopoulos@...
May 21, 1999 12:48 am
How would a biological approach to natural right explain and deal with things like freaks of nature vis a vis the doctrine of the form of "human being"? Is it...
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Chuck Salvo
chucks@...
May 21, 1999 2:09 am
... Do you mean the contemporary science of biology? Strauss in NRH seems to reject science as an abstraction of no value in determining natural rights. ...
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Dan Watkins
dwatkins@...
May 21, 1999 2:17 am
... Is any natural right teaching that tries to base itself on biology, then, a form of corrupted Aristotelianism, and is the only other alternative Platonism?...
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John W. Grant
jgrant@...
May 21, 1999 4:29 am
You might want to look at Larry Arnhart's *Darwinian Natural Right*. Arnhart argues that one can derive natural right teachings (in accord with Aristotle's...
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Kent Guida
kent.guida@xxxxxxxx.x...
May 22, 1999 1:34 am
Having just tuned in again after a long absence, I was delighted to see the discussion touch on biological natural right. I want to second the recommendation...
