Athenian Stranger Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Two very important things to keep in mind when reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet: — The conflict between Catholic and Protestant theology (especially given Hamlet’s own foreign education). — The revolution taking place between Aristotelian and Machiavellian political philosophy.

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Probably the most important single observation on the Odyssey: “The difference between Odysseus and Homer seems to be indicated by the centrality of Circe in Odysseus’s account of his nine adventures and the centrality of Hades in Homer’s account of Odysseus’s eleven adventures”

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“A young person isn’t able to discern what’s a deeper meaning and what’s not, and what he takes in among his opinions tends to become impossible to change. Accordingly, one should above all make what they hear the most beautiful storytelling about virtue” Plato’s Republic, 378e

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@SecCardona You government fools have learned exactly nothing — 0 — from Plato’s Socrates in over two millennia

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I like to be provocative and say that the two most important American novels on love— “love stories” — are (1) Melville’s “Moby-Dick” and (2) Henry Adams’s “The Education of Henry Adams.” This means that one properly understands “love” but, of course, most do not.

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One of the most important aspects of Alfarabi’s thought is how he interprets Aristotle’s categories as (1) a kind of phenomenology of the shadows on the wall in Plato’s image of the Cave and (2) entirely hypothetical (!). If taken more seriously, this could still be very relevant

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The texts to be addressed in understanding Heidegger’s Being & Time are especially the following: Plato’s Sophist, Aristotle’s EN, Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences (as well as his Logical Investigations), and Bultmann’s What Is Theology? https://t.co/plBSrFLYr7

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An unsolved tension between democratization of Christianity and democratization of Nietzsche in early 20th century America is still with us: “Is Christ to be the ultimate conqueror or the Superman of Nietzsche? This is the question of questions” ~ William Adams Brown (1919)

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I’ve updated my Telegram with the following outstanding essay on Aristotle’s Rhetoric. The amazing emphasis on the Rhetoric I’ve mentioned here by Heidegger in Being & Time is found on p.138 (German pagination). My Telegram is entirely free and completely anonymous (link in bio). https://t.co/LlRBYk56ey

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@ChivalryGuild I greatly appreciate him but I’ve not spoken of him much. I’ve wanted to do a space on Book 3 of his Ancient Regime for a while as the best critique ever written of the nonsense to Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. And, of course, I’d love reading anything you provide on Tocqueville.