tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269645828546245860.post4541205644264549167..comments2024-03-26T19:49:12.341-04:00Comments on Workshop Heretic: Is Andy Dwyer an indictment of fiction?Jacob Weberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17591038654403487222noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269645828546245860.post-48588979125430406602017-09-09T07:27:22.544-04:002017-09-09T07:27:22.544-04:00I'm going to wager that he never would come to...I'm going to wager that he never would come to mind if you asked any philosophy scholar to name neo-platonists. Badibangahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13278040623028807835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269645828546245860.post-35133507468302669232017-09-08T15:39:25.231-04:002017-09-08T15:39:25.231-04:00The only neo-Platonist I know well, whom I was quo...The only neo-Platonist I know well, whom I was quoting, is Saint Paul. Jacob Weberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591038654403487222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269645828546245860.post-57507650867226233822017-09-08T14:45:46.142-04:002017-09-08T14:45:46.142-04:00Plotinus is surely one of the best known neo-Plato...Plotinus is surely one of the best known neo-Platonists. Not sure who you have in mind. If you mean Plato, consider Socratic irony. At any rate, you'd have to way that against the sense of episteme.Badibangahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13278040623028807835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269645828546245860.post-80783743498135062452017-09-08T06:21:25.533-04:002017-09-08T06:21:25.533-04:00I'm trying really hard to think of which one &...I'm trying really hard to think of which one "that one" is. I don't know that one stands out as the "that one" episode. Soup Nazi? Yadda Yadda Yadda? Jerk Store? Jacob Weberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591038654403487222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269645828546245860.post-22875332360702188462017-09-07T21:49:21.493-04:002017-09-07T21:49:21.493-04:00I really want to read this more carefully & re...I really want to read this more carefully & reply when time permits - I just started watching Prks & Rec recently, they're all idiots (then again, I'm the only person in America who didn't love Seinfeld). (ok, yeah, except for that one, and even that one was about 11 minutes too long). I love tv tropes. I even created a Goofy Idiot alter ego (before we "met"). Karen Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18148246613451246487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269645828546245860.post-24108493857730068752017-09-07T19:43:52.281-04:002017-09-07T19:43:52.281-04:00Well, the neo-Platonist I know best certainly didn...Well, the neo-Platonist I know best certainly didn't take a friendly view of intellectuals: "Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?" I guess dismissing intellectualism is a cottage industry in Western culture. Jacob Weberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591038654403487222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3269645828546245860.post-89854258605231623722017-09-07T18:40:56.650-04:002017-09-07T18:40:56.650-04:00The conception of the intelligent person living th...The conception of the intelligent person living the vita activa as Arendt would have it is usually seen nowadays by the right kind of cognoscenti as male, and, therefore, the conception because it is gendered is problematized. You look at all those modern counter examples and you will see at their core that they are cyphers for the outsider, the ethnic outsider, the female outsider, the child outsider and actually rather problematic themselves.<br /><br />By the way, remember the fate of Socrates in the Clouds? Burned up with his thinkery. It's an old notion, hostility towards the supposedly learned.Badibangahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13278040623028807835noreply@blogger.com