Deinocrates

+ Summer fellowships Internships Seminars Lecture invitations This is all on top of the problem that at many schools departments of classics, philosophy, political science, and history have been so thoroughly barbarized and feminized that at many schools young men of any heart sense from the outset that taking courses in these subjects, to say nothing of majoring or pursuing graduate degrees and careers in these fields, won't be worth their time

@PrinceVogel There are only eight here but it's so evocative of muses appearing to a shepherd-poet it seems worth mentioning en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream…

@scottyenor Great piece: "Each genuinely classical faculty member is a kind of miracle, surviving as a generalist in an age of extreme specialization and scientism" is spot on

@chiefofautism @apralky He looks so happy here. Before he learned about technological stagnation or the terrible esoteric truth of the scapegoat

@apralky true if big

@IqGroyper Tried to tell you a year ago

@Bossbabyonesie I agree in principle but I also think the Greeks had a sense of natural and rational proportions and did approach “the truth” more closely than any other style. I hope that we can surpass them but surpassing them will be based on studying them

@JonahDeforge I didn't know that, who is that?

"The founding fathers of modern philosophy . . . went so far as to assert that, just as the knowledge of each individual progresses in the course of his life, the knowledge of the whole human race necessarily advances from day to day, i.e., from generation to generation. In asserting this, they underrated the difference between inherited knowledge, i.e., the knowledge which one acquires in schools and universities, and independently acquired knowledge, i.e., knowledge acquired by a mature scholar. Thus it came to pass that inherited knowledge was given the same cognitive status as independently acquired knowledge. (Witness the phrase: the results of modern research.) Whereas, actually, inherited knowledge is hardly distinguishable from prejudice: inherited knowledge is, in the typical case, a collection of true prejudices. . . . In some cases, it so happens that what, to begin with, is supposed to be inherited knowledge or true prejudice proves to be an inherited error." Leo Strauss "Historicism" (1941 lecture)

@Vermeullarmine You should. I'm a political theorist in training and this recent footnote on Schmitt changed how I approach and understand him (and other writers)

@mbrendan1 @pumpdotfun Hacked?