Reports of the meeting between Prime Minister Thatcher and the late Alan Bloom have circulated widely in the past. But some documentation of that meeting was...
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Scott Michael Alexander
smalexa@xxx.xxxx
Jun 1, 1999 7:11 pm
** Reply to note from "Kalev Pehme" <pehme@...> Sun, 30 May 1999 13:36:18 -0400 ... How did you arrive at this conclusion? and what does it mean? ...
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David Wilfinger
DJW@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Jun 1, 1999 6:48 pm
Dear Mr. Pehme, I apologize for making you wait in your parched condition; the bartender kept asking me for proof of my age despite repeated protests that my ...
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John Grant
jgrant@xxxx.xxxxxxx.x...
Jun 1, 1999 7:03 pm
Dear Mr. Alexander, What I take Strauss to mean is that one should remain a Jew because it is dishonorable to do something like convert to Christianity....
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Kosta Simopoulos
prasina@...
Jun 1, 1999 9:35 pm
Mr.Abrahamson writes: "Oh well, for a nihilist it remains the case, nonetheless, that the truth of reality as nothingness or empty is horrifying." What is so...
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Michael Mills
mills@...
Jun 1, 1999 9:46 pm
... [my post snipped] ... Is it? I know Yaakov said that philosophy (reasoning about ultimate things by human powers alone without benefit of revelation) must...
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kosta.simopoulos@...
Jun 1, 1999 10:54 pm
Mr.Abrahamson writes: "Oh well, for a nihilist it remains the case, nonetheless, that the truth of reality as nothingness or empty is horrifying." Are you...
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Yaakov Abrahamson
yaakov@...
Jun 2, 1999 1:24 am
Shalom Of course a reaction to the experience of the nonexistence, or meaningless or vacuity of "self" and "world" as one of horror is merely a personal...
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Jun 2, 1999 2:14 pm
... A politician's task is not to know much of anything, while a wise man's task is to know everything. A politician is a man of action; the wise man is a man...
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Chuck Salvo
chucks@xxxx.xxxx
Jun 2, 1999 10:44 pm
... [Michael Mills wrote:] ... TO ... to ... Neumann, and presumably Yaakov, consider Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Schopenhauer as forerunners....
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Jun 2, 1999 11:12 pm
... [The Druzes and other off-shoots of Islam are respectful of the Greek philosophers insofar as they fit into the overall metaphysics that is usually held...
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John Grant
jgrant@...
Jun 3, 1999 8:26 pm
Dear Mr. Alexander, I thought that I should elaborate on the statement I made the other day on my tentative thoughts on Strauss and Judaism. My main thesis was...
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Reid Heller
srheller@xxx.xxxx
Jun 3, 1999 10:46 pm
Dear Mr. Pehme: I want to praise your summary of Leo Strauss' views on Jewish fidelity. However, there is a touch of the tragic in your account of Strauss'...
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Scott Michael Alexander
smalexa@xxx.xxxx
Jun 4, 1999 3:51 am
** Reply to note from John Grant <jgrant@...> 06/03/99 3:26pm -0500 ... What is the Jewish version of "piety"? Shalom u'bracha Scott Alexander ...
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Yaakov Abrahamson
yaakov@xxx.xxxx
Jun 4, 1999 2:38 pm
Shalom John Thanks as usual for a clear, accurate and balanced reading. I'd like to clarify even further something implicit in your assessment. To be sure,...
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Yaakov Abrahamson
yaakov@...
Jun 4, 1999 2:43 pm
Shalom Reid To answer your request may I recommend Strauss' _Philosophy and Law_, especially his "Introduction" and part one "The Conflict of Ancients and...
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Bill Oates
oateswa@...
Jun 4, 1999 4:31 pm
Hurray. Today is the day when we normally celebrate the birth of Socrates. I am curious to know how different traditions around the world celebrate this...
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John Grant
jgrant@...
Jun 4, 1999 6:49 pm
Dear Sirs, Thank you for your thoughtful replies to my post on Strauss and Judaism. I will attempt to respond below. I think that Mr. Abrahamson is right that...
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Michael Mills
mills@...
Jun 4, 1999 7:10 pm
A very small question: ... "Hatred of the human race"?? I hadn't heard this one before. What did the Romans mean by this? Michael....
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Reid Heller
srheller@...
Jun 4, 1999 7:47 pm
Dear Mr Grant: John wrote: Mr. Heller asks if I don't overemphasize the tragic account of Judaism in Strauss. That is a good question-Mr. Heller points next,...
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John Grant
jgrant@...
Jun 4, 1999 8:47 pm
Dear Mr. Heller, Thank you for your thoughtful response-I find your argument convincing. Best Wishes, John Grant...
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Reid Heller
srheller@...
Jun 4, 1999 9:22 pm
Dear Mr. Grant: You're welcome. Again, I appreciate the thoughtful way in which the question was raised, not to mention the references throughout your thread....
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John Grant
jgrant@...
Jun 5, 1999 1:25 am
I think this refers to Jewish and Christian refusal to assimilate/respect the divinities of other peoples living in the Empire. John G....
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Cameron Wybrow
wybrowc@...
Jun 5, 1999 7:04 am
In a very good post, one of his clearest and best, Mr. Grant has set forth his ideas concerning Strauss and Judaism. I will comment on only two points: ... I...
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@...
Jun 5, 1999 1:42 pm
... Imagine that even during Locke's lifetime there were accusations that Locke thought that the "soul" was perishable. How could that have happened? Best...
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@...
Jun 5, 1999 2:01 pm
Michael Mills writes with respect to the Romans who accused Jews of hating ... Mr. Grant is no doubt correct that it centered around the Jewish refusal to ...
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Steve Sorensen
ssorens@...
Jun 5, 1999 4:18 pm
... I think this is not so very remarkable, or perhaps remarkable for a different reason, if one takes seriously Strauss's prefatory remarks to "Why We Remain ...
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Steve Sorensen
ssorens@...
Jun 5, 1999 4:04 pm
... What has always suprised me is not that "mainstream scholarship turns its back" on straussians, but that "mainstream scholars" are unable to simply remain ...
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John W. Grant
jgrant@...
Jun 5, 1999 5:06 pm
Dear Steve, Yes, I also read and thought about Strauss' prefatory remarks-but I'm not buying what he is selling. Strauss was no mere social scientist (cf. his...
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John W. Grant
jgrant@...
Jun 5, 1999 5:09 pm
Dear Mr. Wybrow, I think that Locke was a philosopher who took Christianity seriously, just as Strauss was a philosopher who took Judaism seriously. But I...
