Luis

an American fighting man

[Luis @luisbrulard]

Swann’s one good idea was studying Vermeer

[Luis @luisbrulard]

One wonders about lying Odysseus, who after the war is a hero reduced to mere anthropos, who is characterized by speech rather than deeds, and whose famous deeds even in war were at night

[Paul R. DeHart @PaulRDeHart]

Teaching Plato's Republic (along with Apologia and Crito) and Machiavelli's Prince and Hobbes's Leviathan at various points in the same semester (which is par for the course for me--the rule rather than the exception, as it happens) it occurred to me that Machiavelli's prudent prince mirrors Glaucon's consummately unjust man (especially those lines in Machiavelli about the prince needing to be a great dissembler and breaker of faith and, in contrast perhaps to cruelty, to disguise this trait, adding few need know what you are, most will believe what they see and hear, few will touch, as it were, the reality) and that Hobbes's account of the self is something rather akin to the democratic / appetitive soul--the soul determined not be reason or even passion but by its strongest desire at any given moment. Hobbes's self in Leviathan is Plato's / Socrates's disordered, factious, dis-integrated self of Republic. And while I don't agree with Plato at every turn, I think his philosophical anthropology far sounder (i.e., truer) than Machiavelli's or Hobbes's. To put all this another way, Hobbes's self as such is really the fallen self--but not even that; not really; it's a reductive version even of the fallen self. Same with Machiavelli.

[Luis @luisbrulard]

@GregCollins111 @OUPAcademic Is there an equivalent in Greek thought of the Latin felicitas?

Sulla seemed to indicate not, when he inscribed Felix on a monument to himself in the Roman world while in Greece he replaced it with his patronage by Aphrodite.

This has perplexed me for weeks!

[Luis @luisbrulard]

@tinndfishmonger Never thought I’d see the great Audrey fall victim to its/it’s

[Luis @luisbrulard]

“War is the business of hêrôs andres, peace of anthrôpoi”

[Luis @luisbrulard]

@binx_bolling_ Reminds me of this banger DFW quote

[Luis @luisbrulard]

@binx_bolling_ Try the mate gin from principe de los apóstoles — it’s strong and distilled with eucalyptus as well as young mate leaves

I enjoy it on the rocks very well chilled, so probably best to aggressively stir in a shaker with ice as you would a martini

[Luis @luisbrulard]

@NickAllmaier @StarkConor is a great teacher and excellent poster!

[Luis @luisbrulard]

@MartinSkold2 Recruiters should visit Straussian undergraduate programs and look for dudes writing on Nietzsche or Plato… you’d quickly find a squad-sized element of sensitive young men

[Luis @luisbrulard]

I joined the Marine Corps rather than get a PhD but after the past few months I’ll gladly write that dissertation if it means actually getting sent to do something

[Task & Purpose @TaskandPurpose]

Special operations need ‘PhDs who can win a bar fight,’ SOCOM commander says https://t.co/kl2AOLGSfX

[Luis @luisbrulard]

@JoelFeldmanPhD Starship Troopers is good on this

[Luis @luisbrulard]

À l'ombre des chudettes en fleurs

[Luis @luisbrulard]

That being said I am enjoying how the book’s dénouement turns into Hans creating a self-insert playlist

https://t.co/9uDUkfLK7F

[Luis @luisbrulard]

Incredibly annoying trait of The Magic Mountain’s narrator is vagueposting about things to happen “later”

[Luis @luisbrulard]

I can talk to God about the sound of the rain

[Luis @luisbrulard]

Hans Castorp moment

[Leo Strauss Foundation @ls_foundation]

Strauss on this day 60 years ago

"The best condition is the one in which no training is required, that of the disembodied soul, i.e., the condition for which our laziness longs, where we do not have to make any effort" (Plato's Meno, April 21, 1966)

[Luis @luisbrulard]

@mattparlmer Not if he wants to man the M240B

[Luis @luisbrulard]

@escapefrommelos Situation now reverting, unfortunately

[Luis @luisbrulard]

Great book, particularly for the sensitive warrior.

Wavell was a Field Marshal in the Second World War who compiled for his family a book of poems he had memorized, which sustained him through his desert campaigns.

[𝖒𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖊𝖑𝖈𝖚𝖗𝖟𝖎 @michaelcurzi]

Bro THIS is the edition I got for like $8 on Abe books???

[Luis @luisbrulard]

@monofrogue @michaelcurzi Great book, glad to see it still has readers