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On Crispin Sartwell’s discussion of “kalos:” What does knowing have to do with nobility or beauty?

Posted on October 2, 2013 by ashok / 0 Comment

1. Encountered Crispin Sartwell’s “Six Names of Beauty” at the bookstore. Saw that he had a chapter on kalos, the ancient Greek word meaning &...

philosophy/politics/xenophon

Xenophon, “On the Cavalry Commander”

Posted on August 31, 2013 by ashok / 2 Comments

With thanks to Jonathan Culp Xenophon, “On the Cavalry Commander” On the surface, this is an exceedingly practical text. Xenophon tells us to make s...

philosophy/politics/xenophon

Is Fiction Useful? Note on Jefferson’s Letter to Robert Skipwith, Aug. 3rd 1771

Posted on October 30, 2012 by ashok / 0 Comment

Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Robert Skipwith, Aug. 3rd 1771 Jefferson honors a request to create a catalog of books for Skipwith’s library. We find him, ...

philosophy/xenophon

On Leisure and Philosophy: Xenophon, Memorabilia III.9.9

Posted on September 9, 2012 by ashok / 8 Comments

For the last few weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to express an argument more simply. I don’t need the root of Xenophon’s rhetoric, I...

philosophy/politics/xenophon

On Leo Strauss’ Esotericism: Xenophon’s Socrates 76

Posted on August 30, 2012 by ashok / 1 Comment

I wish Strauss’ esoteric writing would contain awful drivel like “bomb Iraq” or “we need real men, a new aristocracy” – it p...

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