As something of a New Year's gift to all of you, I'm uploading an English translation of Jens Halfwassen's Plotinus, Neoplatonism, and the Transcendence of the One. Halfwassen was an eminent scholar of the Tübingen School, though little-known in the English-speaking world.
Castello Svevo, Cosenza. A 12th-century fortress expanded by Frederick II. A strategic Swabian bastion commanding the Crati Valley, symbolizing the reach of Hohenstaufen authority in medieval Calabria.
@VilhelmFugl Except, in this case, the vandalism is the digital equivalent of writing a strongly-worded letter and patting one's self on the back for being a sort of Guy Fawkes.
@VilhelmFugl I say that because far from enonymous xosting being the silver bullet against The System, it seemed and still seems to me a lot more like a pressure-valve. That is, a crucial part of an already-established and not going anywhere censorship regime.
@VilhelmFugl . . . a sort of right-ism, where, in one's online persona, you're allowed to roll around in the mud but in the offline persona, return to being squeaky clean. I really can't say I see eye-to-eye at all with other rightists, here.
@MarquisKartaga@space_homer The last thing the Right did was defeat the mammoth Napoleon, which, in fairness, was such a pyrrhic victory no one wants to talk about it. But it is true the Right did this & it ought not be ignored.
Also, it seems no one wants a Metternich pfp
@MarquisKartaga Mr. RomanHelmetGuy has, in-between his Judeolibtardian en-sloppening of Plato, forgotten that half of Plato's criticism of Homer proceeds from a love of Helen (c.f. Phaedrus 243a-b; In Remp. I.175.1–176.5).
@RobinClagane When the students got their turn to speak, they spent a full hour tallying up all the (putative) symptoms of this disorder in Antigone, said the job was done, and left the class. I had never seen them poor man so crushed.
@RobinClagane I remember the time an acquaintance of mine, a good, honest-to-God libtard, was trying to explain to a class-room full of Chinese students why it was he loved Antigone so much. The only reply he got was: "That just means Antigone had generalized anxiety disorder."