tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post3160674799369196260..comments2024-03-29T02:27:32.635-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: A RESPONSE TO SOME COMMENTSRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-26207016701846784592014-12-09T18:36:07.224-05:002014-12-09T18:36:07.224-05:00If you ever need to illustrate how the good and mi...If you ever need to illustrate how the good and mighty (i.e. they) see the rabble (i.e. the rest of us), you can use this video clip:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_47ph6EvQPU<br /><br />It's a scene from a sci fi movie named Snowpiercer. It's actually good.Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528637318288802178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-13681001852919016242014-11-26T06:12:32.316-05:002014-11-26T06:12:32.316-05:00You are right that the story is more complicated t...You are right that the story is more complicated thaan my quick remark indicates, although I do not think the doctrine you allude to from the REPUBLIC really allows for a very exalted view of the masses. As for Socrates, I suspect you are right. His mother, after all, was a midwife, or so I have read.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-38848616709934962172014-11-26T00:23:32.427-05:002014-11-26T00:23:32.427-05:00I wonder if this is right about Plato: "Plat...I wonder if this is right about Plato: "Plato and Aristotle believed that the labor of farmers, craftsmen, and merchants corrupted their souls and made them unfit for full participation in the deliberations of the public sphere". Given the parts-of-the soul doctrine he enunciates in the "Republic", I would have thought some individuals were best suited for, say, craftswork--and their limited power to comprehend was a prior fact, though perhaps made worse by the work. Secondly, though it may be complicated, Socrates of the "Apology" has rather more respect for those who perform crafts, even if, in the end they fail to possess wisdom.formerly a wage slavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16064562730082906589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-46676014337688381242014-11-25T13:45:06.236-05:002014-11-25T13:45:06.236-05:00Wondering, in the passage in Chapter one where Mar...Wondering, in the passage in Chapter one where Marx remark's that Aristotle could not apprehend that value is equal human labor because Greek society was founded upon slavery, the style seems more like that of Value, Price and Profit. Is there a stylistic fluctuation here? If so, what's up with that?Andrew Lionel Blaishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01976034095806583387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-81498084261522323082014-11-25T06:19:08.007-05:002014-11-25T06:19:08.007-05:00Prof.
Your exposition makes me read Keynes' &...Prof.<br /><br />Your exposition makes me read Keynes' "A Short View of Russia" (1925) in a new light.<br /><br />Keynes first boasts of his very Nietzschean disdain for the "mud" and the "boorish proletariat", as opposed to "the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement" then, a few paragraphs later, remarks with evident concern that in Soviet Russia they are attempting to "construct a framework of society in which pecuniary motives as influencing action shall have a changed relative importance, in which social approbations shall be differently distributed, and where behaviour, which previously was normal and respectable, ceases to be either the one of the other."<br /><br />The difference with Nietzsche and Stirner being that, in Keynes' appreciation, the elite was no longer strictly artistic/cultural (like his Bloomsbury buddies) or the old aristocracy, but now included the bourgeoisie.<br /><br />Keynes, however, is entirely oblivious to the contempt Nietzsche and Stirner also felt for his beloved liberal bourgeoisie.<br /><br />In a way, he reminds me of Moliere's bourgeois gentleman.Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528637318288802178noreply@blogger.com