A. T. P. G.

Research in philosophy and literature | accidental audiovisual archeologist or arbiter | always probing the preludial Holy

[A. T. P. G. @engeignos]

The true masters are hidden

[Ancient Philosophy🦉 @AncPhi]

What we have access to is information. Knowledge requires a teacher.

[A. T. P. G. @engeignos]

Autotranslate declining to translate groupuscule with “cell” or somesuch lends accidental charm to the telling of an otherwise unpleasant episode

[Histoire & Savoir 📚 @HistoireSav]

2017 - Devon Arthurs, un néo-nazi américain membre d'un groupuscule suprémaciste blanc s'est converti à l'islam en Floride. Moqué sur sa foi par ses deux amis, il prend son fusil d'assaut et les tue.

Il déclarera à la police de Tampa les avoir tué car ils ont insulté Allah.

[Ozymandias𓆏 @0zmnds]

Paul Virilio
Bunker Archaeology

[A. T. P. G. @engeignos]

@miltonappl3 "Wrestling with God" is much better than "processing information." But you already know that...

[A. T. P. G. @engeignos]

“Hidden request” is such a charming concept, why must they all be porn bots

[A. T. P. G. @engeignos]

2) In any TV show or movie depicting teaching, college or even high school, what's shown has little to do with teaching, even a momentary slice of the same. This will also drive you mad if you teach or have been taught.

[A. T. P. G. @engeignos]

Two (possibly related) observations:

1) In any TV show or movie, people shown holding coffee cups, etc. never actually drink. This will drive you mad if you focus on it.

(Corollary: People order "beer" but not by brand, which is how it's ordered. Payment? Only as plot point.)

[Tom Wilson @monistowl]

Salvete, Barbari! Parati viarum ædifictionem discerestis?

[A. T. P. G. @engeignos]

@silexsc De Quincey's Last Days of Immanuel Kant. Not a complete biography, of course...

[Banished Kent @kentbanishearl]

“Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.”

Yeats

[A. T. P. G. @engeignos]

🔥🔥

[spalatin @spltn411]

Of course I’m joking; and one only needs to compare it to Jens Halfwassen’s dissertation on the Parmenides “Der Aufstieg zum Einen” to see how misguided such a claim is (and what a dissertation really looks like for that matter). And isn’t it suspicious how Strauss, and those who are big on him, entirely ignore thinkers like Plotinus, Proclus etc., or an entire commentary tradition on Plato’s works, most of all Proclus commentary on the Parmenides. They never deal with that and I suspect they’re not really able to. And not to even speak on the points Conor already made regarding the Old Academy. There is enough scholarship out there on that, available even in English (Dillon, Gerson, Reale, Nikulin, O’Brien et al.); and as far as I can tell, none of them reads Aristotle uncritically when it comes to his references on Plato. It’s just mind boggling how one can read, say, Rep. 509b or the first hypothesis of the Parmenides, and not deal with the reports on the Good/One made by Aristotle in Met. A or elsewhere or even think he’s just lying. Pointing instead to the problem of different philosophical schools etc. is just smoke screening and not addressing the issue. And it’s not that Strauss may not be an interesting thinker in his own right; the problem is he and his fans got the order completely wrong and insist on projecting their misguided reading onto Plato’s dialogues. Strauss, who was taught philosophy in Germany, works with an outdated 19th century paradigm, i.e. Schleiermacher’s reading to place Plato’s esotericism WITHIN Plato’s written works (something young Nietzsche already debunked), with the additional error that political philosophy is first philosophy. It’s a compounded mess.

[A. T. P. G. @engeignos]

@Ha_Yi__ It’s ESL

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Astounding

[abcdent @abcdentminded]

Bafflingly constructed sentence on the wikipedia entry for sneezing

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@Bulkington___ Fuko, eh?

[A. T. P. G. @engeignos]

N.B.

[Thomas Murphy @thomasmurphy__]

Vico's major contribution comes from his history of language as the tendency towards increasing abstraction. It begins with direct pointing, concresces into the metastable symbol, and collapses into decadence (signs begetting signs). Civilisations die of pathological abstraction.

[milton @miltonappl3]

"your algo crazy different yo ion understand none of that"

[A. T. P. G. @engeignos]

Cf. https://t.co/CF1fFJgpru

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A little more research reveals the number 36 came from Carlo Gozzi... via Goethe, of course!

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Some questions

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"Naturall Gestures of the Fingers"

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@miltonappl3 Let me see what’s in the archive