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We’ve lost the importance of friendship today. I’ll discuss the significance of friendship in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, ie his logos of happiness: the purpose of friendship as the foundation of politics, the good life, and the philosophical life.
“From his youth Plato first drew near to Cratylus — and Heraclitean doctrines — on the grounds that all perceptibles are always flowing and there is no knowledge concerning them, and later on he likewise held fast to these same doctrines.” Aristotle, Metaphysics A.6
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I humbly present my first Substack. I propose an economic genealogy of MAGA and what I see as a impending hard economic reset:
No fitting translation for the German word Geist that gets the full spectrum. Literally ‘Ghost’ yet too Halloween-ish which is why theologians rather say Holy Spirit, but spīritus feels too light and Romanesque, whereas Mind too intellectual. (Hence also the loanword Zeitgeist.)
When you're a prolific reader, you have a large sample set for what "real life writing" reads like. That's how you can easily tell what's chatGPT slop and what isn't.
The guy who slapped Macron in 2021, who said he regretted nothing when asked about it on French TV (served 4 months and had 14 more on parole) was a metalhead doing historical LARP and HEMA; he now manages a yt channel on the club he created (youtube.com/@DamienTarel-S…) #MondeBasé
Sports detached from sacred devotion to national gods or martial/military context become meaningless and clownish—much unlike the Ancient Greek Olympics. World cups between nations may retain a shadow of this notion, but only if the teams represent the best of the actual people..
Dont know if I can think of a time an athlete at the top of his sport has been this open and honest about their craft
Christian de La Mazière: "We were most interested in the war in Spain...how could a boy of my age, raised in the environment in which I was raised, be anything other than a devoted anti-Communist when all the papers that I read at the time were filled with photos of nuns who had…
Goethe represents Apollonian harmony moving toward light, whereas Kleist embodies Dionysian madness moving into death; a Germanic love for death and downfall that more life-affirming nations always feared, that since the Nibelungen is nowhere better expressed than in Kleist.
Friedrich Gundolf: Heinrich von Kleist. Taken from Gundolf’s study on Kleist, published by Georg Bondi 1922. Link below.
Per norm, a strong translation by @spltn411 of Kantorowicz, this time concerning the ability to present Medieval History—a response to criticisms of his Frederick II delivered at the Historians’ Conference in Halle, April 24, 1930. An excerpt I particularly enjoyed. Link below: