
Athenian Stranger
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I teach the Great Books of our tradition ||Excellence in education: Intro through PhD level || SubStack @AthensCorner
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Academics reading the classics and commenting on all autodidacts and anons:
Athenian Stranger112,308 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

Mansfield on BAP having the insight on his own into locating the greatest place in human history to find the *truest*—but least spoken of—*necessity* for politics as such: It’s very precondition in the violence of all foundings Ended by saying BAP is “interesting and smart”
Athenian Stranger49,816 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

The problem with always being “a good guy” on principle is, as Machiavelli says, ours is a world of too many bad guys Horrific injustices occur and you hear monstrous nonsense like: —“Don’t stoop to their level” —“If you do that then you’re no better than them” My response:
Athenian Stranger49,226 просмотров • 1 год назад

I became seriously interested in the great books through fitness Few things can better equip us for the enormous demands required to understand the thought of our best predecessors than fitness Mind and body a natural unity: —Homer’s moly plant —Plato’s gymnastics and poetry
Athenian Stranger15,311 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

It’s crucial to know that Neil (and Lindsay, Wokal, et al) understanding of Christianity is only thinly Biblical The core of their “Christianity” is modern liberalism b/c they lack an understanding of the revolution in Modernity Here’s my summary (Space I did on it in comment)
Athenian Stranger15,501 просмотров • 1 год назад
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