On Crispin Sartwell’s discussion of “kalos:” What does knowing have to do with nobility or beauty?
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 &...
Category: xenophon
Xenophon, “On the Cavalry Commander”
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...
Is Fiction Useful? Note on Jefferson’s Letter to Robert Skipwith, Aug. 3rd 1771
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, ...
On Leisure and Philosophy: Xenophon, Memorabilia III.9.9
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...
On Leo Strauss’ Esotericism: Xenophon’s Socrates 76
I wish Strauss’ esoteric writing would contain awful drivel like “bomb Iraq” or “we need real men, a new aristocracy” – it p...