[lit-ideas] Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Sherman paralleled to Gore/Obama
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:11:44 -0230
Oh sure! Go ahead and blow our cover.
(There are privacy laws, Wager.)
Walter O.
Your friendly neighborhood Rusian Orthodox, heterosexual, World Federalist
(but I don't want to talk about it.)
Quoting John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> wokshevs@xxxxxx wrote:
> >> Perhaps it is indeed the case that neither politics, nor religion nor
> sexual
> >> appetites should be permitted past the walls of the academy. Only those of
> a
> >> mathematical or moral disposition need apply.
> >>
> >
> > True, sexual appetites do not interest Philosopher Kings. Perhaps that's
> > because they have none??
> > Robert Paul
> >
> I always thought that the reason academic philosophers don't discuss
> these three issues--politics, religion, and sex--was that these were the
> only three things
> that academic philosophers actually DID anything about, and that their
> "professional" duties took them to things that they had no direct
> experience of.
>
>
> > Robert Paul
> >
> > WO: I of course intended to write "sexual orientation, if any." Surely
> Socrates would agree, nicht wahr?
> >
> I thought that the Internet and on-line chats had made the whole concept
> of multiple "sexual orientations" obsolete.
>
> Isn't the only contemporary sexual orientation now "seated?"
>
> --
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>
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