tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post726972152871588950..comments2024-03-29T03:19:09.227-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: BELATED ENLIGHTENMENTRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-47436250438890282182017-11-05T05:22:12.356-05:002017-11-05T05:22:12.356-05:00Do you need free Google+ Circles?
Did you know tha...Do you need <b>free Google+ Circles</b>?<br />Did you know that you can get these <b>ON AUTOPILOT AND ABSOLUTELY FREE</b> by using <b><a href="http://socialexch.syntaxlinks.com/r/Like4Like" rel="nofollow">Like 4 Like</a></b>?Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-50714730674703562232017-02-25T07:54:16.940-05:002017-02-25T07:54:16.940-05:00You are right. My mistake.You are right. My mistake.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-86078742258388068402017-02-25T07:26:26.033-05:002017-02-25T07:26:26.033-05:00Can't let you get away with claiming Arendt as...Can't let you get away with claiming Arendt as part of the Frankfurt School. She was close with Benjamin (himself never really a member though certainly an influence) but she detested Adorno, Horkheimer, etc. That hatred was primarily one-sided (based in part on the not-entirely-false claim that they caused the death of Benjamin); the core members of the FS don't really devote attention to her except perhaps as a Heidegger acolyte. EShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12925350780071644671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-24146803869466415572017-02-24T13:45:58.023-05:002017-02-24T13:45:58.023-05:00Hannah Arendt doesn't use Freud at all, in an...Hannah Arendt doesn't use Freud at all, in any of her works as far as I know.<br /><br />She does use Marx, especially in the Human Condition, although she is not a Marxist. She does point out in the Human Condition (written in the 1950's) that Marx is a very great philosopher, her way of giving the finger to McCarthyism.<br /><br />If Arendt's political thought goes back to any one philosopher, I'd say it is Aristotle, to his idea of man as a political animal and the ideal of a polis.<br /><br />Political action or activity, which for Arendt is an end in itself, prevents, according to Arendt, the mass passivity and anomie which produces totalitarianism. That fits with the fact that in a society of the Super Bowl and the Celebrity Apprendice (not to mention other horrors of reality TV), Trump is elected president. s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-35869770121562970692017-02-24T11:31:24.577-05:002017-02-24T11:31:24.577-05:00Thank you David Palmeter. A chilling historical p...Thank you David Palmeter. A chilling historical parallel. I rather imagine that supporters of the Roman Republic could not imagine that so old and solid an institution could crumble.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-10978875201294152382017-02-24T11:14:36.359-05:002017-02-24T11:14:36.359-05:00Off Topic:
At last night’s history reading group ...Off Topic:<br /><br />At last night’s history reading group meeting at Politics & Prose book store in DC, we discussed Mary Beard’s best-seller, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. What struck many of us were the parallels to what seems to be going on these days. <br /><br />In discussing the fall of the Roman Republic—an institution that very much influenced the founders of our country as well as the founders of the political party that bears its name—Beard writes: <br /><br />“Traditional restraints and conventions broke down, one by one, until swords, clubs and rioting more or less replaced the ballot box….A very few individuals of enormous power, wealth and military backing came to dominate the state—until Julius Caesar was officially made dictator for life….When the story is stripped down to its barest essentials, it consists of a series of key moments and conflicts that led to the dissolution of the free state, a sequence of tipping points that marked the stages in the progressive degeneration of the political process, and a succession of atrocities that lingered in the Roman imagination for centuries.”<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01601151117159492920noreply@blogger.com