Friends,. My recording on Thucydides’ entire “archaeology” is completed and I’ve made it available for everyone because of how relevant it is for us today. It took me over a month of editing to ensure none of your time is wasted in listening. I hope you enjoy it. (Link below)

RT @DobskiBJ: So the Review of Politics just published my review of Nicolas McAfee’s recent book on Shakespeare’s “Late Plays.” Give my rev….

Happening today.

I retweeted something on Substack before realizing I have no followers 😆.

… you almost *never* see such honesty in discussions where the most significant things in the life of man are at issue.

“To understand the essence of any historical movement — whether it’s philosophical, theological or ‘cultural’ — the inquirer must abstain from generalizations and, instead, patiently analyze the relevant primary source texts”.

“Scholarship has something dead about it.”. ~ Nietzsche (BAW, 3:321 [1867/68]). [“Die Wissenschaft hat etwas Todtes.”].

Wisdom is so dependent upon self-knowledge that we can say wisdom is wholly inseparable from self-knowledge. We become wise *only* through recognizing that the various authors of the great books have something to teach us that we flatly do *not* already know.

… and I fully expect that many will become entirely apoplectic about that.

Regarding virtue, the greatest challenge of paganism to Christianity is the virtue of greatness of soul, which is to say the role of honor (ie hierarchy) among men. This has always been the case, and so definitive is the challenge that Shakespeare wrote a play on it: Hamlet.

The two greatest American novels on eros —the deepest longing of the soul— are:. 1. Melville’s “Moby Dick,” and.2. Henry Adam’s “Education of Henry Adams”. Also, understanding itself in the intellectual tradition of Renaissance (Tudor) England, we have always claimed Shakespeare.

… few things are as rewarding as simply lifting outside in the sun — in everything from squats, to deadlifts, to powercleans, to sprinting etc.

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“A ‘fact’ is infinite, never entirely reproducible. There are only degrees of historical understanding. The more a man is an independent thinker, the more he’s able to recognize in the past.”. ~ Nietzsche (lecture on encyclopedic classical philology: summer semester of 1871).

… Nietzsche and Wilamowitz took place in what both Nietzsche and Wilamowitz considered laughable publications unworthy of them and the seriousness of the subject. The greatest events of so-called world history are silent, going unnoticed by the vast majority of people. (2/2).

Nietzsche could not get any respected academic journal to review his first book, “Birth of Tragedy”. Wilamowitz lacked a position in academia then, so his review of the book was rejected by all respected academic journals. The greatest battle in philology between…. (1/2).

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… and here’s the discussion I provided on the pre-modern origin of “culture” and its relationship to philosophy.

This thing we call “culture” emerged in the mid 18th century. The greatest significance of it, and why it’s not a matter of mere semantics at all, is that “culture” arose as a philosophical concept in the 1760s in opposition to “nature,” either freeing *or* further enslaving man.

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