Here are a couple of questions that I seem to return to again and again regarding the use of political philosophy in the study of politics. 1. As we all know,...
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David Wilfinger
DJW@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 1, 1999 8:19 pm
Dear Mr. Seltzer, You raise an interesting couple of questions. I'll take a crack at #1 and leave #2 for those who know Locke et al better than I. There is...
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Steve Sorensen
ssorens@xxxx.xxxxxxx....
Oct 1, 1999 8:40 pm
... Suppose, to use a modern distinction, Aristotle were understood to have spoken "descriptively" rather than "normatively" when he gave his account of...
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Oct 2, 1999 1:29 pm
... to again and again ... of politics. ... NRH Strauss ... Aristotle's practical ... rejected on the ground ... be accepted. ... since at least the ... ...
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Oct 2, 1999 3:15 pm
... Mr. Wilfinger assumes that philosophy is a science, and thus praises Aristotle's methods more than his philosophical investigations. Is philosophy solely a...
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seltzer@xxxxxxxxx.xxx...
seltzer@xxxxxxxxx.xxx...
Oct 3, 1999 8:03 pm
... Perhaps my own view of the distinction already stacks the cards in favor of Aristotle, at least insofar as I reject entirely the distinction between the...
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kosta.simopoulos@xxxx...
Oct 4, 1999 11:37 pm
Kalev Pehme writes: "Truth is not a conceptual unity of the human mind, but it is something that must be reflected upon, reflected through the intermediaries...
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kosta.simopoulos@xxxx...
Oct 5, 1999 3:31 pm
Kalev Pehme writes: "That Aristotle strives after what is true first and above all (see his Metaphysics, for example) enables and guarantees that his analysis...
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Yaakov Abrahamson
yaakov@xxx.xxxx
Oct 6, 1999 4:04 pm
Shalom Leisure at last! To restate Kalev's concern: "Nihilism has been too easily accepted as a genuine possibility and that its acceptance makes philosophy...
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Yaakov Abrahamson
yaakov@xxx.xxxx
Oct 7, 1999 3:31 am
Shalom Now for the run up to nihilism by way of the thought of Leo Strauss. A cursory familiarity with Strauss' writings suffices to appreciate their ...
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Oct 7, 1999 3:31 pm
... The defiant question, yes. Nothing new in that: The formulation of the question, the directed ignorance, depends on a great deal of knowledge and on truth....
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JCWENGER@xxx.xxx
Oct 8, 1999 7:03 pm
Alan Seltzer has raised a question I have had for years. In the last two paragraphs of the introduction of NRH, Strauss says, "The teleological view of the...
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seltzer@xxxxxxxxx.xxx...
seltzer@xxxxxxxxx.xxx...
Oct 8, 1999 9:02 pm
... Mr. Wenger's question in this particular instance is much more fundamental than were mine. In my message, I said that Strauss, consistent with what he...
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kosta.simopoulos@xxxx...
Oct 8, 1999 9:39 pm
Kalev Pehme writes: " To write in this way is also most responsible. We do not find this kind of writing in Nietzsche." I dont know about you Mr.Pehme, but the...
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Oct 9, 1999 1:15 pm
John Wenger writes in part, regarding the famous Strauss quote on Aristotle's teleology from NRH: "Why didn't Strauss deal with these problems? Will anyone...
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Oct 9, 1999 1:20 pm
... Well, the estoeric side of the English Hobbes, Locke, Smith, et al. is Karl Marx. And the esoteric side of Karl Marx is Hobbes, Locke, Smith, et al.. Of...
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kosta.simopoulos@xxxx...
Oct 13, 1999 11:18 pm
Kalev Pehme writes: "Origin has a very ambiguous character to it. The way Strauss uses it is not related to genesis, as Mr. Abrahamson asserts. The word origin...
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kosta.simopoulos@...
Oct 13, 1999 11:45 pm
An excellent post and a pleasure to read Mr.Pehme. I would only add that the reconstitution of the divine in mans world would take the gradest kind of...
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David Wilfinger
DJW@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 14, 1999 1:50 pm
Dear Mr. Simopoulos, "putrid nihilistic Machiavellian liberalism that we half-barbarians live in" "we would have to scrap that barbaric, stupid, desolate and...
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John Grant
jgrant@xxxx.xxxxxxx.x...
Oct 15, 1999 8:25 am
I often lament the evils of capitalism as I sit in an air-conditioned room at my computer, staring at the screen through my glasses-oh the horror! I think it...
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kosta.simopoulos@xxxx...
Oct 15, 1999 5:08 pm
Not hate, but righteous indignation!!!!! thanks kosta simopoulos...
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kosta.simopoulos@...
Oct 15, 1999 5:28 pm
Dear Mr.Grant, If I was to speak like an artist, I would reply that its not that liberal-democracy fails in promoting virtue, I think you beg the question...
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Robert Thompson
rhtphil@...
Oct 15, 1999 8:00 pm
It seems to me that the problem of capitalism is not so much the fact that we all get some little nicety out of the spiritless system of money hording, but...
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David Wilfinger
DJW@...
Oct 15, 1999 8:13 pm
Dear Mr. Thompson, "It seems to me that the problem of capitalism is not so much the fact that we all get some little nicety out of the spiritless system of...
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kosta.simopoulos@...
Oct 15, 1999 9:43 pm
John Grant writes: "In this vein I think of Nietzsche's criticism of the low utilitarianism of the Enlightenment-but any student of Strauss (see his recently...
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kosta.simopoulos@...
Oct 15, 1999 9:46 pm
But the guys staffing the tables in the agora werent sitting in the boule as well, not to mention owning it. The whole point of Strauss's presentation, I...
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kosta.simopoulos@...
Oct 15, 1999 10:20 pm
Where can one find this lecture on German Nihilism? thanks kosta simopoulos...
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Kalev Pehme
pehme@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xxxx
Oct 16, 1999 1:41 pm
... The problem with capitalism is that it promotes a view of wealth that is entirely conventional, and at the mercy of the strong against the weak while it...
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John W. Grant
jgrant@xxxx.xxxxxxx.x...
Oct 16, 1999 4:23 pm
I did not mean that virtue is something that can be promoted like a boxing match-that was not my point. And I think you go too far in saying that excellence...
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John W. Grant
jgrant@xxxx.xxxxxxx.x...
Oct 16, 1999 4:27 pm
Of course Aristotle did not talk about the common good either (the common advantage) and *nomisma* or currency bonds society together in the *Ethics*-- Best...
