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Athenian Stranger
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Athenian Stranger
@Athens_Stranger
I teach the Great Books of our tradition ||Excellence in education: Intro through PhD level || SubStack @AthensCorner
Beigetreten Aralık 2020
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@mrjohn496 I’ve done two so far — the first being my pinned tweet and this being its sequel:
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Here’s the sequel I also discuss the passages in the Phaedrus concerning the art of writing such that a text becomes alive in the mind of the reader. In other words, how Plato seems to suggest his dialogues are to be read (link in comment)
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The alleged separation of “the sciences” and “the humanities” is fictional and in most respects quite arbitrary.
You see that in the lives of men like Euler, Poincaré, and really all the founders of Modern physics
These two books in particular are well worth your time reading:
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Here’s the sequel
I also discuss the passages in the Phaedrus concerning the art of writing such that a text becomes alive in the mind of the reader. In other words, how Plato seems to suggest his dialogues are to be read
(link in comment)
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@javier_mar12137 @signersf Yes, Snow’s book gets it exactly wrong
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I have an iron will. I cannot be broken. That’s how I’ve survived on X this long. And my loyalty is as strong as my will. I would be nothing without my loyalty.
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@IberianMantis The cosmos is among Nietzsche’s favorite metaphors for human psychology regarding morality (eg Truth & Lying in a Non-Moral Sense)
Emphasis is upon the inferences we make or, more specifically, the way we infer the existence of things for which we don’t have genuine knowledge
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by AI, trading the birthright of their mind for porridge, breathing in the uninspired sparks of midwit LLMs and substitute thoughts. Men who would otherwise avoid servanthood to their inferiors became simps to a soulless and sexless voice. A bargain for time and effort, a bargain for time and effort, only the effectual atrophy of the intellect.
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Mike O’Hearn in an interview:
Interviewer: “Mike you weigh 260lbs at almost 60 years old. Do you struggle carrying that weight?”
O’Hearn: “Yea it’s hard to stay that lite. I’ve got to be lifting and doing cardio twice a day to be that small!”
Love that guy 😂
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I received such good feedback on this that I combined both recorded spaces (since the first one crashed) and uploaded it here for more convenient listening — direct link in comment below
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The Odyssey: In the space below, I explain how and why Burkhardt and Nietzsche emphasize the root of the crisis of Western culture is our lack of seriousness towards the Greeks and especially Homer’s Odyssey I emphasize the role of art in that problem It’s good Texts I use:
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@alexpriou Once the world went down the route of “effectual truth” there was no going back. We can say that “effectual truth” is the true Pandora
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There’s more going on here, re: the limits theoretical physics is running up against.
The practical side of the hard sciences has gained in momentum, while the theoretical side has gone speculative or silent.
This explains the increased interest in religion, philosophy, etc.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
@demishassabis There will be a little discovery along the lines of Newton or Einstein, but ~100% of intelligence output in the future will be creation of the new, rather than understanding the basic rules of reality. The pattern of the quarks, leptons & photons is almost everything.
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My comprehensive intro to Nietzsche
In meticulous detail, I canvass the entirety of his thought:
— Homer
— The Dionysian
— History & Modern Science
— The origin and meaning of Nihilism: “worldview” and its inherent counterpart of “world-creating”
— His critique of Christianity
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@visitor_xyz Most Platonic in the sense of containing what Plato himself believes he learned from Socrates
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In being the *least* Socratic dialogue, Plato’s Laws is the *most* Platonic dialogue
That —and exactly that— is what has been wasted on the tradition of Philosophy in the West
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@IberianMantis @vulpesvulpes9 It’s a baffling claim by him to anyone who knows the most basic elements of probability theory and its intimate relationship to measure theory
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"Not bullish on Measure Theory so far."
Kemonogroyper@KEMOgroyper
Joseph Bronski has a new forum and it's fucking incredible. He just posted this when I told him he misread the subject of his thread.
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… that statement by Montesquieu is the “effectual truth” of Modernity
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Greek philosophy (and to a lesser extent the medievals) are so invaluable to study because they took seriously the *question* of divine revelation and/or unassisted human reason
Montesquieu best stated our situation: Make people wealthy enough and they will forget all that
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