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FW: [leo-strauss] Re: The Origins of Tyranny

robtyenow — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:25:42 GMT

... Bates I presume this unpleasant essay in condescension is addressed to me. I first met that little game with Aristotles use of the word last more than 40

Re: The Origins of Tyranny

robtyenow — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:17:57 GMT

... There is nothing in these attempted insults to concern me, you seem merely intoxicated with your own prose

Re: The Origins of Tyranny

robtyenow — Tue, 21 May 2013 08:11:56 GMT

Charles, Thanks ... The quote is of course Voltaire, not me. Seems to me exactly correct to call it cynical in the original sense ? as it tends to debase

FW: [leo-strauss] Re: The Origins of Tyranny

Clifford Angell Bates Jr — Wed, 15 May 2013 22:07:19 GMT

Certain person here seems rather uninformed (and that is the polite way to call it) about the Politics 4.4 text and how the relationship between the fifth/last

Re: The Origins of Tyranny

Luke Neely — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:13:26 GMT

... Ok. I will consider that if you can offer a little more in the way of persuasion. Meanwhile from the drift of your more recent comments I think you are

Re: The Origins of Tyranny

Charlesgorodess — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:56:08 GMT

Rob, Your last, rather cynical comment, that "history is a set of lies agreed to", certainly requires a little nuance. In Aristotle's university, each art and

Re: The Origins of Tyranny

robtyenow — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:58:08 GMT

... You instruct me? Consider the possibility that your strictures on empiricism are but a means of insulating self serving opinion from the truth Rob

Re: The Origins of Tyranny

robtyenow — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:50:25 GMT

... Agreed. And my accusation of historicism would more properly have been levelled merely against Mr Bates version of Aristotle. Ibn Khaldun reviewed and

Re: The Origins of Tyranny

Luke Neely — Mon, 13 May 2013 06:59:51 GMT

There is a remarkably consistent typology of tyrannical rule. I don't remember how much detail Aristotle goes into but it's covered in Plato's Republic as

Re: The Origins of Tyranny

Charlesgorodess — Mon, 13 May 2013 01:02:25 GMT

All, Aristotle certainly knows about teaching and learning. Book I of the Posterior Analytics deals with the acquisition of principles through teaching and

Re: The Origins of Tyranny

robtyenow — Sun, 12 May 2013 07:46:12 GMT

... Aristotles view here seems to be historicist in Poppers sense of the word (and I oppose historicism in both its meanings). One of my chief problems with

Re: The Origins of Tyranny

Clifford Angell Bates Jr — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:13:52 GMT

Again forgive my late response.. but Hitler did not set aside the Constitution, rather as Chancellor, after the Reichstag fire, the German Parliament passed

Re: The Origins of Tyranny

Clifford Angell Bates Jr — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:05:20 GMT

I have been having some major computer issues with my home computer which stores and receives my strausslist messages so I have been away--and only the

Re: Fwd: Delay in posting corrected Strauss transcripts at Strauss C

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