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27 Aug 2024
'Il conflitto Callicle-Socrate nel Gorgia, non è il conflitto tra due individui, ma è un conflitto che si presenta nell’interno di una stessa anima (Callicle e Socrate, cioè, sono due tendenze o visuali del medesimo spirito); ed è un conflitto insolubile e ineliminabile.' G Rensi
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Jun 1
The best part of that dialogue is the masked intervention of Xenophon himself who says that they only have arms and virtue, and they're ready to fight the Persians at once, but without arms virtue is useless. Aristotle would later say that virtue without armament is nil.
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Not through senses, but through intellect. Thucydides believes that the historian's hindsight can be the politician's foresight - to polish his xynesis. Thucydides is more actual now than ever before - interpret the world through insight, intuition and tested experience.
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May 25
Depends on the book, not all the old books are useful. Cf Thucydides: investigating the past is useful to determine the present evil, to find a way to predict the future (by eliminating evil). The past as a light to shine on the present in order to predict the future.
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May 23
Courage is best defined by Thucydides and Plato, although Plato gives a Thucydidean definition of the virtue, both in the Laches and the Republic - the union between the Spartan and the Athenian character. Thus, courage is both moral (Spartan) and scientific (Athenian). Rep 430B.
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May 20
This is what Antiphon says. If you bury a wooden bed, after some time the 'physis' of the wood would manifest itself, and it will give birth not to a bed, but to another wood/tree. What this means is that physis (human nature) is stronger than nomos (education or 'lion taming').
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May 6
Lots of words, no substance. A hero for Plato is a philosopher in the higher sense (that goes through a katabasis) and in front of pleasure, fear, desire or pain has the power to stay steadfast and obedient to law of what to fear and what to not.
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Apr 20
That piety leads to good fortune is so ridiculzed by Thucydides with Nicias's catastrophe. Cf Plato's Laches. Here you have the difference between a great thinker, Thucydides, and a guy who writes for children. Piety can lead to ruin more than anything else, it gives false hopes.
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Apr 12
Europe when America's attempt to prop up a failing fascist fails:
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Mar 26
The wise man Thrasymachus refutes Socrates in the most beautiful Thucydidean manner - might is right, so, the powerful individual, or group, can exercise might and give it the name right. Due to his power he is fully entitled to do so.
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Mar 16
''la povertà, spinta dal bisogno provoca l'audacia, la ricchezza, che con l'insolenza e l'orgoglio provoca l'avidità, e le altre condizioni degli uomini, in preda alle passioni, ogni volta che ciascuna subisce un impulso più potente e irresistibile, li spingono verso i pericoli.'
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Mar 2
Not at all. The sophists believed in virtue as art, man made better by the science of man, philosophy. Socrates believed in the same thing, and Plato has him being refuted by Thrasymachus, art in the hands of an expert crook leads to injustice. Philosophy for Plato is a katabasis
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Feb 27
Stupid criminals get caught, smart criminals transform their crime into law, or, they protect their crime through it. This is how Thrasymachus refutes Socrates in the Republic - the criminal in high places is a very intelligent artist.
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Feb 25
The good and law (thus god) are different things. The communists in murdering did so in the name of the good. Xenophon brilliantly proves that the good is not the law in the coat argument in Cyropedia. The woke also believe in the good (as fairness or fitting) as law.
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Feb 17
Plato himself denies that the philosopher is a craftsman - or that virtue is a craft. Socrates believed in virtue as craft and Plato has him being refuted by Thrasymachus. You name ''Platonic'' something Plato refuted and waged war against - because it is a sophist invention.
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Feb 6
Olimpiadi 2026: la nostra Laura Pausini che canta l’Inno di Mameli.
Niente porcherie woke, niente travestimenti, niente immagini sacrileghe, niente ingrati piagnucolosi.
Un’italiana, l’Inno, il Tricolore.
In una parola: PATRIA 🇮🇹
Grazie, Laura.
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Feb 1
Good actions can also lead to bad passions. The fight to defend yourself, the fear of slavery, you get strong to stop the fear, you conquer to be safe, establish empire, you become a tyrant. This is Thucydides, or Leo Strauss' dialectic of self defense (Callicles in the Gorgias).
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Jan 26
There's nothing in Plato about a ''god that makes us happy.'' You use ''Platonism'' wrong or as a charlatanry. ''God'' for Plato is a noble lie that must be employed in order to make the people just through fear (plebeian virtue). This is actually Critias' invention.
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Jan 26
''social - psychoerotics'' - this smells like nonsense. ''Erotic creatures'' are very few. In all his dialogues Plato directly labels as being ''erotic'' only Callicles and Socrates. So, politically speaking, an erotic creature is of the right nature as to become a phil. king.
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