Austro-Athenian Empire » Antiquity http://aaeblog.com "Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy. Sat, 26 May 2012 04:29:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Cordial and Sanguine, Part 30: Armistice Among the Bleeding Hearts http://aaeblog.com/2012/05/01/cordial-and-sanguine-part-30-armistice-among-the-bleeding-hearts/ http://aaeblog.com/2012/05/01/cordial-and-sanguine-part-30-armistice-among-the-bleeding-hearts/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 14:41:07 +0000 Roderick http://aaeblog.com/?p=9209 Two final posts in the Cato Unbound symposium, one from Matt Zwolinski and one from me.

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]]> http://aaeblog.com/2012/04/23/cordial-and-sanguine-part-26-war-among-the-bleeding-hearts-continued-some-more/feed/ 7 Cordial and Sanguine, Part 25: War Among the Bleeding Hearts Still Further Continued http://aaeblog.com/2012/04/19/cordial-and-sanguine-part-25-war-among-the-bleeding-hearts-still-further-continued/ http://aaeblog.com/2012/04/19/cordial-and-sanguine-part-25-war-among-the-bleeding-hearts-still-further-continued/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:54:03 +0000 Roderick http://aaeblog.com/?p=9150 The symposium continues with a second contribution from Zwolinski and Tomasi, a third contribution from Friedman, and a solo reply from Zwolinski. I just finished another entry, which should go up tomorrow.

]]> http://aaeblog.com/2012/04/19/cordial-and-sanguine-part-25-war-among-the-bleeding-hearts-still-further-continued/feed/ 1 Cordial and Sanguine, Part 22: War Among the Bleeding Hearts Continued http://aaeblog.com/2012/04/04/cordial-and-sanguine-part-22-war-among-the-bleeding-hearts-continued/ http://aaeblog.com/2012/04/04/cordial-and-sanguine-part-22-war-among-the-bleeding-hearts-continued/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:44:09 +0000 Roderick http://aaeblog.com/?p=9090 Greetings from Seattle! My entry in the aforementioned Cato Unbound symposium is now up. It’s titled “In Praise of Bleeding Heart Absolutism.”

]]> http://aaeblog.com/2012/04/04/cordial-and-sanguine-part-22-war-among-the-bleeding-hearts-continued/feed/ 0 Hemlochaccino? http://aaeblog.com/2012/03/27/hemlochaccino/ http://aaeblog.com/2012/03/27/hemlochaccino/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:35:05 +0000 Roderick http://aaeblog.com/?p=9060 Socrates about to drink what he shouldn't

This Wednesday, March 28th, from 5:00 to 7:00, in the Gnu’s Room (the bookshop/coffeeshop at the corner of Gay & Samford, next to Amsterdam Café), the Philosophy Club will be staging a reenactment of Socrates’ last days and death, followed by philosophical discussion. (I’m one of the discussion leaders.) If you’re in the Auburn area, drop by. (Or jet in from Dubai if you prefer.)

]]> http://aaeblog.com/2012/03/27/hemlochaccino/feed/ 0 Scholastic Achievement Test http://aaeblog.com/2012/02/04/scholastic-achievement-test/ http://aaeblog.com/2012/02/04/scholastic-achievement-test/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:21:47 +0000 Roderick http://aaeblog.com/?p=8739 More juvenilia: Whether What Is Transcendent Is Dependent (unsuccessful parody of medieval philosophy, age 19). Adam Smith says somewhere that a sculpture of an animal is more impressive than a sculpture of a chair, because a sculpture of a chair isn’t sufficiently different from an actual chair; a similar criticism applies here.

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]]> http://aaeblog.com/2012/01/29/armed-with-ajax/feed/ 0 The Final Encyclopedia http://aaeblog.com/2011/10/10/the-final-encyclopedia/ http://aaeblog.com/2011/10/10/the-final-encyclopedia/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:12:07 +0000 Roderick http://aaeblog.com/?p=8227 Today I learned (from an Egyptian Students’ Association poster – apparently verified here) that the Library of Alexandria (the current one, obviously) houses the sole backup copy of the Internet Archive.

Why yes, said the first little pig, I’m going to rebuild my house, and I’m using all straw again.

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I finally paid out the drakhmas to get the proceedings (both print and electronic, so over $100 total) of the Athens conference I went to in 2008. Here’s my contribution: “Thrasymachus and the Relational Conception of Authority” (in Patricia Hanna, ed., An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, vol. 3 (Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2009), pp. 27-36).

And here’s the abstract:

Thrasymachus defines justice as the interest of the stronger/rulers. Hence one might expect him to hold that when the stronger/rulers act in their own interest, they are being just. Yet Thrasymachus says just the opposite – that when the stronger/rulers act in their own interest, they are being unjust. This apparent inconsistency is to be explained by Thrasymachus’s having a relational conception of the notion of stronger/ruler; to act in the interest of the stronger/ruler is to act in the interest of someone stronger-than-oneself, of a ruler-over-oneself. Hence when a subject acts to benefit the ruler, he acts justly, by putting a superior’s interests before his own; but when the ruler acts in his own interest, he acts unjustly, since he pursues his own interests and defers to no superior.

This is something I think almost everyone who teaches Plato’s Republic gets wrong.

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