@platoreader

Homer, Herodotus, and Plato. Strauss and Benardete. Sarah Lawrence and UCLA.

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Good to be back, friends. I'm working on something cool with my buddy @Aleg97Alix and a great teacher from our time at Sarah Lawrence College, Marina Vitkin. 12-week close reading of the first part of Beyond Good & Evil. Seminars and one-on-one conferences. Give our page a look!
Think Invisible
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Applications are open! Join us for an intimate 12-week close reading of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil with professor Marina Vitkin. The course includes weekly seminars, regular 1-on-1 conferences, and question sessions. Spaces limited to 15 seats. thinkinvisible.com/?utm_sour…

Think Invisible | Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil Course

Explore Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil in a twelve-week course with Professor Marina Vitkin. Close reading, small seminars and individual tutoring.

thinkinvisible.com
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"All we saw and caught we have left behind, but all we neither saw nor caught we bring with us."
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As a pet project, I have been enhancing the audio of Leo Strauss' lectures - beginning with the '66 lecture on Meno. My chief aim has been to enhance Strauss' voice and minimize background noise such tape artifacts. On the whole, they are a significant improvement. However, some students - in particular Charles Butterworth - were not captured well on the original recording and can't be satisfactorily enhanced. Please feel free to use to the link below to download. drive.google.com/drive/folde… @jguipre @platoreader @JourneyMuse
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Brian Wilson as poet knew that the glaring distinction between giddy joy and lonely grief belies their common substance. This vision of the unity and fraction of human experience may have informed his invocation of Wordsworth in one of his finest songs. May he rest in peace.
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Waxing noetic
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Read Homer
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Dostoevsky, a paragraph to live by
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The beautiful moments of peace and healing in the Iliad by Hector and Patroclus, while touching, are pushing the poem and the listener/reader to the greatest act of heroism that comes at the end of the epic: Achilles' embrace of Priam and the bestowal of peace for Hector's burial
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“If you serve too many masters, you’ll soon suffer.” Telemachus, Odyssey Book 21
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Just got these in the mail from UChicago Press. These books have been out of print for some time, but clean copies were found and used to bring them back into print. “Argument” $30 a.co/d/0cDdTczg “Laws” $30 a.co/d/0bn6nL0X
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Parmenides has his goddess say that though there is no true trust in the opinions (δόξας) of mortals, we should learn them all the same—because the things which appear (δοχοῦντα) must really be (χρῆν δοκιμῶς εἶναι), through all things pervading (διὰ παντὸς πάντα περῶντα).
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Where is the institution in which are considered the modes of the acquiring of universities, of the founding of wholly new ones, of the maintenance of their freedom however they have been acquired, and of their common defense?
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Chicken Parmenides
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I shouldn't have tweeted this
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There is great wisdom in Plato’s Letters.
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More Strauss to Klein on Herodotus (Oct 15, 1938) "οὗτος δὴ ὦν ὁ Κανδαύλης ἠράσθη τῆς ἑωυτοῦ γυναικός, ἐρασθεὶς δὲ ἐνόμιζέ οἱ εἶναι γυναῖκα πολλὸν πασέων καλλίστην....χρῆν γὰρ Κανδαύλῃ γενέσθαι κακῶς, (it was this Candaules who fell in love with his own wife and, having fallen in love, believed her to be a woman much the most beautiful of all...it had to turn out badly for Candaules, I.8.1-2) A meaningful story that M. likes very much. The esoteric meaning is: women are the ancestral laws that everyone believes to be the most beautiful. Woe to Gyges who sees [the naked eidos of] a 'woman' not his own. Therefore: esotericism." (Judar the Fisherman's seventh test in Arabian Nights)
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Socrates preferred to remain ignorant in his own way rather than to become knowledgeable in the way of artisans, for the latters' knowledge was of partial things, and their pride of competence caused them to neglect the human situation as a whole. -Allan Bloom
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Alcibiades I: Alc.'s curiosity that Soc. may have something he himself lacks reflects what he lacks. S. says Alc. will listen eagerly (prothumōs) if he desires (epithumeis) to know what S. has in mind (dianooumai). Their first dialectical exchange is about learning and discovery.
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S. knows that Alc'.s spirit wouldn't be content dominating only the mainland, failing to fill also the Asiatics with his own name. But S. begins to show Alc. something he has altogether failed to include in his conquest: mind. He begins to reorient Alc.'s thumos toward nous.
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Pleased to announce: SECOND SAILINGS: A VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON THE THOUGHT OF SETH BENARDETE Saturday, March 9th. See image below for details Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi… Support the archive: paypal.com/donate/?hosted_bu…
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