Comments for The fence between true opinions and lies http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com repository of a partial woman's words Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:48:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Bolas Spider by ashok http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/bolas-spider/#comment-177 ashok Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:48:50 +0000 http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/bolas-spider/#comment-177 Sorry about that - internet went kaput for a second or two. Hope to ttys. Sorry about that – internet went kaput for a second or two. Hope to ttys.

]]> Comment on Bolas Spider by ashok http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/bolas-spider/#comment-176 ashok Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:10:16 +0000 http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/bolas-spider/#comment-176 I like, I like! I like, I like!

]]> Comment on Two rejections received, the rest hang in the balance by ashok http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/two-rejections-received-the-rest-hang-in-the-balance/#comment-175 ashok Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:40:09 +0000 http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/?p=71#comment-175 Fingers crossed here too. It's good to see you post, even if the news is bad. Fingers crossed here too. It’s good to see you post, even if the news is bad.

]]> Comment on ‘Allo ‘Allo we meet again by ashok http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/allo-allo-we-meet-again/#comment-174 ashok Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:07:13 +0000 http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/?p=69#comment-174 It's just great to hear from you! Please do keep in touch - you're very, very hard to get a hold of, that's for sure. It’s just great to hear from you! Please do keep in touch – you’re very, very hard to get a hold of, that’s for sure.

]]> Comment on ‘Allo ‘Allo we meet again by loft965 http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/allo-allo-we-meet-again/#comment-173 loft965 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:30:13 +0000 http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/?p=69#comment-173 me too.... me too….

]]> Comment on Monotheism & the City by Maladjusted http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/monotheism-the-city/#comment-172 Maladjusted Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:26:56 +0000 http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/?p=65#comment-172 I'm not sure how well this squares with your final invocation of the veil of Maya, but I'm tempted to say a bunch of (probably unhelpful) Churchillhisms of the "never surrender" kind. Sure you've had to evacuate the BEF at Dunkirk, but they're still alive, still ready to defend the island, still thinking about the City and Man. Doubtless that your finest hour is still to come.. Further: I agree with the redoubtable Ashok Karra that your acquaintance sounds like a complete prat. Of an all-too-familiar kind. As A.K. also implies: only the geistlos (spiritless) would ask for a ghost-writer. The academy is, verily, full of smug morons who would not, in their wildest masturbatory fantasies achieve a degree of the lucidity you show in this post (not to mention in your delightful explication of Strauss on natural right.) I hope you are not discourarged and that your lack of posts in recent months is due to a whirlwind of sucess in other fields. Oh, and did I mention that Mr. Karra and I are preternaturally discerning? Not to mention to the other readers of this blog. -Regards, -Mal. I’m not sure how well this squares with your final invocation of the veil of Maya, but I’m tempted to say a bunch of (probably unhelpful) Churchillhisms of the “never surrender” kind. Sure you’ve had to evacuate the BEF at Dunkirk, but they’re still alive, still ready to defend the island, still thinking about the City and Man. Doubtless that your finest hour is still to come..

Further: I agree with the redoubtable Ashok Karra that your acquaintance sounds like a complete prat. Of an all-too-familiar kind. As A.K. also implies: only the geistlos (spiritless) would ask for a ghost-writer.

The academy is, verily, full of smug morons who would not, in their wildest masturbatory fantasies achieve a degree of the lucidity you show in this post (not to mention in your delightful explication of Strauss on natural right.)

I hope you are not discourarged and that your lack of posts in recent months is due to a whirlwind of sucess in other fields.

Oh, and did I mention that Mr. Karra and I are preternaturally discerning? Not to mention to the other readers of this blog.

-Regards,

-Mal.

]]> Comment on Confucius on li or the rites by Edgard http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/confucius-on-li-or-the-rites/#comment-168 Edgard Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:24:58 +0000 http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/confucius-on-li-or-the-rites/#comment-168 Very good and eloquent. Thanks for sharing. Very good and eloquent. Thanks for sharing.

]]> Comment on Falling Shilling by ashok http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/falling-shilling/#comment-167 ashok Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:07:47 +0000 http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/?p=66#comment-167 Feel free to let me know how things are; it's good to see some activity on your end. Feel free to let me know how things are; it’s good to see some activity on your end.

]]> Comment on What is in a letter?: The Opening of “The Prince” by Interview: 3 Questions for Sharon Loo : Rethink. http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/what-is-in-a-letter-the-opening-of-the-prince/#comment-166 Interview: 3 Questions for Sharon Loo : Rethink. Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:47:54 +0000 http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/what-is-in-a-letter-the-opening-of-the-prince/#comment-166 [...] she engages that I am perhaps most interested in, and you can find reference to that in her newest blog. 1. Usually, people don’t associate “feminism” with “fanfic” or [...] [...] she engages that I am perhaps most interested in, and you can find reference to that in her newest blog. 1. Usually, people don’t associate “feminism” with “fanfic” or [...]

]]> Comment on Monotheism & the City by slawkenbergius http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/monotheism-the-city/#comment-164 slawkenbergius Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:56:58 +0000 http://laphilosophe.wordpress.com/?p=65#comment-164 "BUT philosophy does not exist from apart from a particular man, Socrates. As such, the only coincidence of the most general with the particular is the philosopher. " You're shortchanging Anaximander a bit, I'd say. Did Empedocles throw himself into Mt. Etna for nothing? ("Socrates' décadence is suggested not only by the admitted wantonness and anarchy of his instincts, but also by the superfetation of the logical faculty and that sarcasm of the rachitic which distinguishes him. Nor should we forget those auditory hallucinations which, as "the daimonion of Socrates," have been interpreted religiously. Everything in him is exaggerated, buffo, a caricature; everything is at the same time concealed, ulterior, subterranean.— I seek to comprehend what idiosyncrasy begot that Socratic equation of reason = virtue = happiness: that most bizarre of all equations which, moreover, is opposed to all the instincts of the earlier Greeks." - FN, "Twilight of the Idols") “BUT philosophy does not exist from apart from a particular man, Socrates. As such, the only coincidence of the most general with the particular is the philosopher. ”

You’re shortchanging Anaximander a bit, I’d say. Did Empedocles throw himself into Mt. Etna for nothing?

(“Socrates’ décadence is suggested not only by the admitted wantonness and anarchy of his instincts, but also by the superfetation of the logical faculty and that sarcasm of the rachitic which distinguishes him. Nor should we forget those auditory hallucinations which, as “the daimonion of Socrates,” have been interpreted religiously. Everything in him is exaggerated, buffo, a caricature; everything is at the same time concealed, ulterior, subterranean.— I seek to comprehend what idiosyncrasy begot that Socratic equation of reason = virtue = happiness: that most bizarre of all equations which, moreover, is opposed to all the instincts of the earlier Greeks.”
- FN, “Twilight of the Idols”)

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