Thomas Cleveland
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@AliceFromQueens
@mattyglesias
I think that's what people who meet online say they did if they're embarrassed to say they met online.
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Nearly forgot to finish my taxes because I was reading Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Science of Logic.
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Actually, the authentically based flute take is that all flute-playing is corrupt because it distorts the face, makes speaking impossible, and brings about an irrational frenzy in listeners.
(Aristotle, Politics; Plutarch, Life of Alcibiades)
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One of my favorite passages from Norm MacDonald's novel.
"And this is when I learned that hardscrabble truth: There is a difference between what a thing is and what it appears to be...I understood then that it takes a powerful imagination to see a thing for what it really is."
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@lionel_trolling
To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. The moon. Mars. London.
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Alfarabi's Book of Letters. A guide for the perplexed.
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@andrewjmoore
@HootenWilson
Why? Etymologically and in regular usage it means "humanity." Is there actually any confusion about it?
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New fragments of Alfarabi’s lost commentary on Aristotle’s Ethics just dropped (well, 10 years ago).
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Donald Kagan, celebrated historian of the ancient world and revered teacher
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Here's a website I made collecting every musical allusion in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain.
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Now convinced that all books ought to include appended to the acknowledgements section a ressentiment section.
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There needs to be a nationwide bipartisan movement to fire most administrators at colleges and universities and get rid of the positions altogether. Nothing will be worse, it will be better everywhere.
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"We can only think of Plato and Aristotle in grand academic robes. They were honest men, like others, laughing with their friends, and when they diverted themselves with writing their Laws and the Politics, they did it as an amusement..."
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Counterpoint: according to Xenophon's Simonides the tyrant cannot ultimately dispense with mercenaries without compromising himself. Xenophon is much less idealistic than Machiavelli on this.
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A Celebration of Harvey Mansfield
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Recommend a science book that everyone should read ✍️
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Strauss in 1960 on Jacob Klein's Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra.
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Marc Landy and Susan Shell on Robert Faulkner's character and intellect.
A campus memorial service will take place on Sept. 23 for retired longtime faculty member and respected scholar of modern political philosophy, Robert K. Faulkner, who died this month at age 88.
In Memoriam:
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Found myself looking into this man last year when out of gratefulness that he had translated Farabi's treatise on the Prior Analytics. Just reading his bibliography impresses one with a sense of how far the human spirit can range.
The Center regrets to report that Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Dr. Nicholas Rescher, has passed away.
Dr. Nick Rescher, former Center Director and Center Chairman, leaves an outstanding legacy of philosophical work.
Learn more:
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Wow! I'm so grateful. Paul Cantor was one of the most erudite, humane, insightful, and funny men I've met.
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What people What
think philosophers we actually
look like: look like:
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Aristophanes
What conservative thinker has impacted you the most?
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I was in Italy with Eva Brann one summer and someone asked her which she preferred, the ancients or the moderns, assuming I think, she would prefer the ancients.
#TBT
: This throwback Thursday, join us in wishing longtime tutor Eva Brann a belated happy birthday! Revisit our 2019 interview with Ms. Brann:
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The previous owner of this translation of Greek lyric poetry has filled in the lacunae of an Archilochus fragment and turned it into an emo song.
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@polanskydj
The captain does briefly glance at a native woman as they are trading goods and learning intelligence.
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The only responsible technologist was the guy who created Flappy Bird and then immediately deleted it when he realized it was bad for people's souls.
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This is important. I've talked about this with the Storey's and many of the folks involved in Schools of Civic Thought in the last few months. I'd encourage anyone who's interested in solutions to the corruption of liberal education to read it and talk to me about it.
Penned by the Drs. Storey, beloved
#PoliticalStudiesProgram
instructors, this
@AEI
research report sketches the outline for a program in “Civic Thought,” a rigorous program for university-level civic education.
Read the complete report here:
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The revival of Xenophon in the last half century is an unqualified good for humanity. No downsides.
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Kate Bush subreddit miles ahead of much of our civilization.
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blue dogs
President Biden joked with Susan Collins he feels like he’s back in the Senate during a very brief media availability before a meeting with GOP senators on Covid relief
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16 books ordered so as to trace out a path that, while it is clearly not the only one by which they can be approached, is, as it seems to me, a path that must be taken sooner or later by the reader who is to understand them:
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Ah, Thanksgiving: a time for family, food, reflection, fun, and using Debra Nails' A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics to map out the dramatic dates of the dialogues as well as every relationship in the Socratic corpus.
@AeonTimeline
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How I'd organize a new institution of higher education:
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@ShadiBartsch
Fire 90% of administrators (or more). They do not serve the mission of education and are often counter to it. Most of these positions just don't need to exist.
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Strauss on Aristotle's de anima III.5 and "Active Intellect"
"De anima is terribly difficult. As for the active intellect, I try to understand it by starting as follows: a new-born human baby exposed in the wood and brought up by wolves or monkeys—here, the potential intellect
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There's a lot of pessimism, anxiety about the future of the humanities and liberal education. But I also personally know very many people who have experienced it and have personally devoted their lives to preserving and spreading it. So it's difficult not to have some optimism.
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Throw out the consultants. Fire (almost) all the administrators.
The college crisis is a crisis of meaning; colleges have forgotten why they exist. Turning small, liberal arts colleges into career-readiness institutions with bloated sports programs has nothing to do with the value of the liberal arts as understood historically.
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In 2015 Norm tweeted and then quickly deleted a story about Bob Dylan.
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THESES BEARING ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF ARISTOTLE’S NATURAL SCIENCE - Christopher Bruell
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@alexpriou
@stjohnscollege
@PoliAnimalPress
One time at I was playing tennis with a friend & I saw Mr. Grenke approaching us from across campus, coming closer and closer, until we were face to face. I said, "I saw you coming." He said, "No, you saw me growing bigger & you ignored your senses & judged I was approaching."
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Claremont APSA panels have suddenly been moved online with no explanation.
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Join the guerilla movement for spreading liberal education by distributing this samizdat.
@CatherineProj
@zenahitz
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This is a remarkable opportunity that you should consider seizing.
Anyone who’d like to sit in via Zoom on Prof. Sebell’s graduate seminar on Nietzsche (mainly Beyond Good and Evil) should send a brief note of introduction to him at sebell
@msu
.edu - it meets Thursdays, 11:30-2:20
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Norm tells the true story of why he had to leave SNL.
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Most interesting bit is on the Critique of Judgment.
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Ralph Lerner - An Introduction to Maimonides
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‘Unfilmable’ Books That Hollywood Should Try to Adapt After ‘Dune’
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To emphasize that God is the creator and life is not caused by the sun understood as a cosmic god or natural being.
If the god of the bible is so clever, how come he made plants before he made the sun?
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2. Alcibiades was said to be the most beautiful man in all of Greece. She supposes that the average American undergraduate college has a dozen young men who are taller and more beautiful than Alcibiades was and, though she cannot prove it, she assumes his breath smelled of garlic
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Richard Velkley - The Metaphysics of Practical Reason
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Rumsfeld and his associates were neoconservatives, or followers of Straussian philosophy.
Leo Strauss taught that natural elites should rule the world and guide politics while using "stories" and made-up crusades in order to inspire and direct the unwashed masses.
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@zenahitz
I think this is the funniest passage in Being and Time:
"In citing such evidence we must guard against uninhibited word mysticism. NEVERTHELESS..."
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In Pottersville there is a happening jazz scene. In Bedford Falls the most popular song seems to be "Buffalo Gals (Won't You Come Out Tonight)."
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@alexpriou
@platosfootnotes
Often "political philosophy" means, "yes I'm in a political science department, but, you know, not really."
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Plato
Most intelligent athlete ever?
I'm going with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Your turn.
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Plato, Aristotle...and Rawls.
"Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of Heidegger is that he never appreciated what was clear to Plato, Aristotle, and Rawls: that justice is the chief virtue of social institutions, and greatness means being just...before anything else." -
@MattPolProf
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Sidney Poitier recites a passage from the Philebus over an orchestral jazz backing.
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"...That part of their life was the least philosophic and the least serious; the most philosophic was to live simply and quietly..."
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Sarastro's Cave: Letters from the Recent Past a novella by Richard Velkley
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@lionel_trolling
I think all the color sections are biased towards O's point of view but that is not necessarily Nolan's point of view. So Truman comes off as petty and demonic.
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"...They entered into their principles in order to make their madness as little harmful as possible." - Pascal
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OUT NOW
George Anastaplo on Television
TV rots your brain, but podcasts don't! We discuss a provocative essay by George Anastaplo in favor of regulating television, along with his argument's application to the digital age.
LISTEN: .
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Hercules at the Crossroads, Annibal Carrache (Louvre)
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In case you happen to be attending MPSA: I'm giving a presentation on Heidegger and Plato on eternal truths at MPSA tomorrow at 11:40AM Eastern.
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Jacob Klein - Speech: Its Strength and Its Weaknesses
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Portion of My Shelf (Taylor's Version)
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Laurence Berns, Radical Historicism and the Attempt to Transcend Philosophy: Some Reflections on Strauss, Heidegger, and Husserl
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1. Admissions
Admission is granted only to youths who, having read and studied the arguments for the existence of gods presented in Book X of Plato's Laws, are nevertheless unconvinced and are atheists. 5+ year course of study in what your family assumes is some kind of prison.
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Master and Commander and Jane Austen's Persuasion are in the same fictive universe.
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@alexpriou
"You see, Larry, there's two types of men. You've got the surface man. You've got the heart man. Me, I'm a surface man. But what people don't know--the surface man *is* the heart man."
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Let me know if you're in Boston!
Tomorrow morning at 8:30 ET! JMC's own
@tcleveland4real
, Director of Academic Programs, presents at
#NPSA2023
on Aristotle's "On the Motion of Animals" and what it tells us about the eternally beautiful.
#NPSA
#metaphysics
#philosophy
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They tried to trick me into singing on the internet.
🧠🧨🧠
OUT NOW
Plato's Minos w/ Dr. Thomas Cleveland
The wise
@tcleveland4real
discourses on the gravest of questions, WHAT IS LAW
#LockHimUp
Check out the great work he does w/
@JackMillerCtr
promoting the Founding and American Political Thought
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"...Death is a funny thing. Not funny haha, like a Woody Allen movie, but funny strange, like a Woody Allen marriage. When it’s unexpected, death comes fast like a ravenous wolf and tears open your throat with a merciful fury...
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Awful.
BREAKING: Norm MacDonald has died "after a long and private battle with cancer"
The influential comedian and former 'SNL' Weekend Update anchor was 61
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