So this is what the new place looks like. I miss the old neighborhood....
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lance.fletcher@xxxxxx...
lance.fletcher@xxxxxx...
Dec 9, 1998 1:11 pm
... Ted, Are you serious? Exactly what is it that you miss? Always eager to oblige,...
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lance@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx...
lance@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx...
Dec 10, 1998 1:43 am
Hi everybody, I hope that by this time everybody has received the notice that the leo-strauss list has been moved to a new server and that the new address for...
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Ted Vaggalis
tvaggali@xxx.xxxxx.xxxx
Dec 10, 1998 2:50 am
Lance: Actually I was just trying out the new list. I like it just fine. Please excuse my playfulness. Next time I will make a serious contribution to the ...
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Ted Vaggalis
tvaggali@xxx.xxxxx.xxxx
Dec 10, 1998 2:51 am
Lance: This is just fine!!!! I am a satisfied list member. ... Slow Reading: http://www.freelance-academy.org To unsubscribe by e-mail, just send a message...
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lance@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx...
lance@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx...
Dec 10, 1998 3:56 am
... Great! On another subject: I notice that this list has been rather quiet for the last few weeks. That leads me to suggest that the floor is open for...
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Ted Vaggalis
tvaggali@xxx.xxxxx.xxxx
Dec 10, 1998 9:17 pm
Recently I purchased a copy of Heirich Rommens' The Natural Law from Liberty Fund Press. It is an interesting book, made even more interesting given his life...
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Mary Emily Cummins
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Dec 11, 1998 10:18 pm
... This is a good question. I forwarded it to a professor of mine (who studied under Strauss) and will let you know his response. I was interested to see...
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Hilail Gildin
gildin@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 12, 1998 7:37 pm
A review by Strauss of Rommen's _The State in Catholic Thought_ is reprinted in _What Is Political Philosophy_ (281ff.)....
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Dec 13, 1998 1:22 am
Dear List Members: Nietzche's Anti-Christ translated by the fascistic HL Mencken is now on line at http://www.macromind.org/maps/nz/a-christ.htm and I believe...
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Michael Mills
mills@...
Dec 15, 1998 9:00 am
This question is a little out of our usual scope, but the list has been fairly quiet lately. I expect it will also expose my ignorance, if not my poor taste,...
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M. Richer
OBERON@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 15, 1998 1:36 pm
Mr. Mills: I have had the same question regarding Bloom's personal interest in Rousseau. I think Rousseau was a great admirer of the student/teacher...
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Major, Rafe
RafeM@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 15, 1998 3:13 pm
From: Michael Mills <mills@...> I have not read a great deal of Rousseau, and that was years ago; but I would never have thought to describe him as...
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ae515@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx...
ae515@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx...
Dec 15, 1998 4:12 pm
"If reflection on Rousseau's life does not make it clear that he understood the importance of art and science for man, a careful reading of _Letter to...
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lance@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx...
lance@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx...
Dec 15, 1998 4:20 pm
... I had the pleasure of listening to Bloom lecture on Rousseau in the context of an undergraduate course on the history of political philosophy and, some...
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Dec 15, 1998 5:28 pm
... influential ... [snip] Imagine what a world we would have had those dreary Lockeans and Hobbesians had been able to foist themselves on the world without ...
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Michael Mills
mills@xxx.xxxx
Dec 15, 1998 5:39 pm
At 09:13 AM 12/15/98 -0600, Major, Rafe wrote: [snip] ... Because a day will come when those children have to interact with others who also have wills, and...
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Major, Rafe
RafeM@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 15, 1998 6:39 pm
... From: Michael Mills [mailto:mills@...] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 11:39 AM To: leo-strauss@onelist.com Subject: [leo-strauss] Re: Bloom and...
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Michael Mills
mills@xxx.xxxx
Dec 15, 1998 6:51 pm
At 12:39 PM 12/15/98 -0600, Major, Rafe wrote: [snip] ... I'm not sure what you mean by "based on the will of others." I just meant that children need to...
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John Grant
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Dec 15, 1998 7:22 pm
Dear Mr. Mills, I have a partial response to your question. I think that Bloom was in part fascinated by Rousseau because of Rousseau's focus on the...
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Reid Heller
srheller@...
Dec 15, 1998 4:39 pm
I think Lance's comments on Bloom and Rousseau are right on target. Bloom saw in the Emile a work as sophisticated, "charming" and penetrating as Plato's...
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Will & Marcia Kolodzie
kolodzie@...
Dec 15, 1998 11:21 pm
<<From: Michael Mills <mills@...> Can anyone explain what Allan Bloom ever saw in Rousseau?>> The longing for wholeness Best Regards, Will Kolodzie...
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Ted Vaggalis
tvaggali@xxx.xxxxx.xxxx
Dec 17, 1998 1:45 am
The topic that Michael Mills raised about Bloom is a good one for the list. I too have wondered about Bloom and his admiration of both Rousseau and Hegel. If I...
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Scot Zentner
zentner@xxxxxxxx.xxxx
Dec 17, 1998 7:54 pm
... Or perhaps one might say that what is foremost for Bloom is love, friendship and freedom, whereas for Strauss it is reason, piety, and the political. But...
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Ted Vaggalis
tvaggali@xxx.xxxxx.xxxx
Dec 17, 1998 8:02 pm
Scot: You may well be right about Strauss' command of the original. I do think there is a great deal to suggest that Bloom was in certain respects a better ...
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Michael Mills
mills@xxx.xxxx
Dec 17, 1998 11:20 pm
... And yet, Strauss always emphasizes the importance of starting, not with what is first simply, but with what is first for us. Surely love and friendship ...
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John Grant
jgrant@xxxx.xxxxxxx.x...
Dec 18, 1998 3:17 am
Of course Mr. Mills response (the quote by Forrester) presupposes that friendship is transpolitical. I would suggest that this is at the very least a...
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Ted Vaggalis
tvaggali@...
Dec 18, 1998 4:11 am
Why would it have to be transpolitical? Perhaps the point is that without friendship politics is not possible. This would make friendship the most political...
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John Grant
jgrant@...
Dec 18, 1998 4:26 am
I'm not really following the reference to Linda Tripp. It seems that it is Bill Clinton who does not understand the importance of friendship-or perhaps it...
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Reid Heller
srheller@...
Dec 18, 1998 4:50 am
Since this exchange concerns Allan Bloom's view of these things, his reading of Anthony and Cleopatra in Love and Friendship is probably relevant. He ...
