tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2957618362044424921.post7195628598495422378..comments2023-10-04T05:05:43.524-05:00Comments on A Screed in Time: Book MemeRoger Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01831602215904873587noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2957618362044424921.post-63952423327282568742008-01-29T17:22:00.000-06:002008-01-29T17:22:00.000-06:00Passing behind Kalynne is very embarrassing. I mus...Passing behind Kalynne is very embarrassing. I must write I like S King's books. Quite ordinary, I assume. I've read most of his success except short stories. I can't explain, I don't like short stories, in general. Maybe frustration. I've lurked (thanks for my day-word) at your posts (very prolific today, congratulations) and I have nothing to add. Bonsoir.<BR/>CatherineCatherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10916324312194538199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2957618362044424921.post-22706294340651423382008-01-29T16:48:00.000-06:002008-01-29T16:48:00.000-06:00"A second and equally important strategy suggested..."A second and equally important strategy suggested in Plato is the detailed functional imagining of lives lived both outside and inside of the science of measurement. When, in the SYMPOSIUM, he follows Diotima's speech with the speech of Alcibiades; when, in the REPUBLIC, he describes every minute circumstance of the new lives he envisages; when in the PHAEDRUS, he vividly describes the lives and feelings of rather different people, showing us the value of *that* -- in all these cases Plato seems to me to be doing the sort of tough work of imagination that is required for anyone who is going to make an informed choice in this matter. We need to follow his lead."<BR/><BR/>(Good thing all of her sentences aren't as long as that second one.)<BR/><BR/>Martha Nussbaum, LOVE'S KNOWLEDGE (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).<BR/><BR/>I'm doing this in my office, so that's actually much more translucent than most of the alternatives.Kalynne Pudnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04804224012895512550noreply@blogger.com