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To: Enemy Of The State
He was a confused Jew . . . That is the secret that Strauss never revealed. Hmmmm.
2 posted on
05/12/2003 9:09:08 AM PDT by
cornelis
To: Enemy Of The State
I don't know anything about Leo Strauss; but I do want to publically thank Levi Strauss. He will never appreciate what a service he has done for guys everywhere, when he made tight fitting jeans for women.
3 posted on
05/12/2003 9:14:34 AM PDT by
Hodar
(With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
To: Enemy Of The State
Another 'secret' today is who duped America and leaders Bush and Powell with forged nuclear WMD documents about Iraq.
4 posted on
05/12/2003 9:15:04 AM PDT by
ex-snook
(American jobs need balanced trade - WE BUY FROM YOU, YOU BUY FROM US)
To: Enemy Of The State
Excellent article. The paragraph on Heiddeger really slew me. And of course he is right on the mark. There are really only two choices: believe in the Logos, the God Who created the universe in harmony and rationality, or believe in nothing, but try to go on bravely without any foundations for rationality or logic to rest on.
That's why, although a free society like the United States can separate Church from State, it can't do without the Church or the synagogue entirely, because as a certain French visitor pointed out in the 19th century, American Democracy can only survive as long as the majority of her citizens adhere to religious faith and moral principles.
5 posted on
05/12/2003 9:24:45 AM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Enemy Of The State
P.S. I assume that the writer's name "Spengler" is a nom de plume borrowed from the author of that prescient and much-hated book, "The Decline of the West."
6 posted on
05/12/2003 9:26:44 AM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Enemy Of The State
"What be 'Be'? You cain't say that 'Be' be, cause you saying 'be' to talk about 'Be', and it don't mean nothing to say that 'Be' be dis or 'Be' be dat. 'Be' be 'Be' to begin wit'. So don't you be saying 'Be' be 'Be'. You wanna talk about 'Be', you gotta talk about what ain't be nothin' at all. You gotta say 'Be' be what ain't 'ain't-Be'. Now when you ain't be nothing at all? Dat be when you be daid. When you daid you ain't be nothing, you just be daid. So 'Be' be somewhere between where you be and where you ain't be, dat is, when you be daid. Any time you say 'Be' you is also saying 'ain't-Be', and dat make you think about being daid."this is priceless!
7 posted on
05/12/2003 9:28:56 AM PDT by
chilepepper
(Clever argument cannot convince Reality -- Carl Jung)
To: Enemy Of The State
only asia times could get away with this parody of being by edie murphy, and of course, their opinion about strauss.
i read some of strauss' books while doing research for papers on classical greek language. but that was decades ago. i don't remember any of the contortions described above.
one of my favorite teachers was a jewish philosophy ph.d. who taught only heidegger, sartre, and jung. the department was dominated by 20th century british ordinary language and analysts who rued the day they let her join their ranks! but, i read "being and time", and trekked with heidegger through deep, dark german forests, the metaphor for his later work.
i don't remember much of it today, but the edie murphy piece is funny!
8 posted on
05/12/2003 9:36:56 AM PDT by
liberalnot
(what democrats fear the most is democracy.)
To: Enemy Of The State
What's the media obsession with Leo Strauss the last couple days?
To: Enemy Of The State
The real issue here is that the marxists at the NY Times, convinced that all things are political, tried to turn Straussian philosophy into an ideology.
What a bunch of morons. Typical Blair/Clymer production.
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