No Bully*
Pulpit.
Disagreement and innovations.
Main Stream Perspectives:
CBSABCPBSHuffington PostSalonWashington Post YouTubeBoston Globe"
Contensions?"(sic**)
More Follow Up.
[
Mean-
while up date***
No Rapture.]
* Mika 1 Joe 0 Are you
serious,
Joe?
** counter intuitive: Bully Pulpit is a good thing, like American Exceptionalism, unlike the
link or the namesake.
*** and I did not see the Herman Cain link before my Teddy reference and there is no relation between my pen name LeRoy-Rogers and the therogersinsitute, nor Newt's middle name (Leroy).
[See ** "
Are"
yes I may be. Apologies for the
multi-di
mentionalism
again, but in regards to Newt and Libertarianism, I think that it could be called
Tea Party Nuance, and Ginrich is attempting to be the Obama of the Right(or the
No Labels of
the Right), while I am
somewhere not between Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz.]
[
Profits verses Prophets(
Chris Hedges)
and more.
[
The square of the esoteric.
Strauss on reading In 1952 Strauss published Persecution and the Art of Writing, commonly understood to advance the argument that some philosophers write esoterically in order to avoid persecution by political or religious authorities. A few readers of Strauss suggest esoteric writing may also seek to protect politics from political philosophy -- the explosive reasoning of which might well shatter fragile opinions undergirding the political order. Stemming from his study of Maimonides and Al Farabi, and then extended to his reading of Plato (he mentions particularly the discussion of writing in the Phaedrus), Strauss proposed that an esoteric text was the proper type for philosophic learning. Rather than simply outlining the philosopher's thoughts, the esoteric text forces readers to do their own thinking and learning. As Socrates says in the Phaedrus, writing does not respond when questioned, but invites a dialogue with the reader, thereby reducing the problems of the written word. One political danger Strauss pointed to was the acceptance of dangerous ideas too quickly by students. This was perhaps also relevant in the trial of Socrates, where his relationship with Alcibiades was used against him.
Ultimately, Strauss believed that philosophers offered both an "exoteric" or salutary teaching and an "esoteric" or true teaching, which was concealed from the general reader. For maintaining this distinction, Strauss is often accused of having written esoterically himself. Moreover he also emphasized that writers often left contradictions and other excuses to encourage the more careful examination of the writing. Leo Strauss's favourite novelist was Jane Austen.[5]
This spin off is from actually reading the previous bold "
and more" but is relevant to the Gingrich "
Exceptionalism" and
Obama practical and
incremental.
And Platonic Dialogue.(
sic)]
[Spell Check Gingrich: left Ginrich for link & search purposes: but note Strauss to Chomsky philosophical dynamism(Wittgenstein) via esoteric Tea Party Gingrich attempt at nuance.]
