Re: The Cambridge Crew (was: basics (a small aside))

jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 08:08:02 -0400 (EDT)

   Modern Philosophy startes with Decartes.  Honestly I don't have any
idea why, or how Plato differs from Hume, but one is classic, and the
other is modern.

   silly classicification made for historians.

-jason

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Jason Varsoke                            jvarsoke@bigfoot.com
For good mental hygiene, shave with Occam's Razor twice daily

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 Squeila@aol.com wrote:

> Yeah, I'm not sure what constitutes modern.  We're not reading any Greeks, 
> but other than that....  Let's see, we've got:  Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, 
> Rousseau, Hegel, and Marx.  I love, not so much that I get to read it, 
> because I could have done that anyway, but that there are still scholars 
> willing to share their knowledge about it with me, else, I'm not sure reading 
> it would have much worth in my case.
> 
> Leila
> 
> note that follows signature:  While I'm on the topic of school, all the 
> parentheses in the subject make it look like my logic homework.
> 
> 
> In a message dated 99-07-15 05:20:57 EDT, you write:
> 
> << Leila, I just LOVE the fact that Hobbes is still on the list of "modern"
>  political philosophers.  In fact, given the front page of almost every
>  newspaper in the world these days, Old Tom could be penning the headlines:  
>  
>                   LIFE PROVED "NASTY, BRUTISH, SHORT"
>  
>  
>  ....beyond that, I LOVE the fact that they still make students read
>  LEVIATHAN (even though the list price on my copy is probably much less than
>  $2.50--and it too was autographed!!!!!!)     (....only kidding....)
>   >>
>