[lit-ideas] Re: Lit-Ideas Taking a chance
- From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 20:12:17 -0800
Do you think mentioning Athens and Sparta makes the usual topics
> into a philosophical discussion?
ck: Yes, for my premise concerned the philosophies and values of those two
ancient cultures, with parallels to the current schism in our own culture,
as illustrated by two consecutive elections. This way of thinking is why we
bother to study philosophy as well as history. Thucydides may not have much
to say to us today, but is it true that similar cultural wars have not
occurred in the past? Of course. I was suggesting we approach our
partisanship from another direction.
Carol
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory {Greg} Downing" <gd2@xxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 7:59 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Lit-Ideas Taking a chance
> At 07:31 PM 11/6/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> >I'm curious. Are you, Greg, screening my posts, or do you just prefer
> >complaining to looking for evidence that you might not be correct?
> >
> >Earlier today I posted in a philosophical vein--Athens v Sparta--for
> >discussion. One person responded, and it wasn't you.
> >Carol K.
> >
>
> When, upon opening the posting you are referencing, I saw you using lots
of
> wording like "Bush and his ilk" and "Karl Rove" and "liberals" and
> "Republican" and "tactics" and "Kerry" and "war" and "evangelical," I
> honestly have to confess that my first thought was not: "Great, finally
> something that isn't the usual recycled political and ideological
> wrangling." >
> In a prior post I mentioned "ideas about literature or philosophy or the
> arts... discussed substantively and not as a means toward polemical
> political cliche." That "not as..." clause is important.
>
> Greg Downing
>
>
>
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