Reflections: Response to “El Tiempo” columns 7: Comentario a Francisco Cajiao: “Educar para la Política”, febrero 17 de 2009.
Debo decir que es casi siempre un verdadero placer leer sus columnas. Su profundo conocimiento de las dinámicas educativas de Colombia es admirable.
Ahora bien, considero que en su columna sobre educación para la política hay varios elementos [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Reflections: Elementos para una Educación Política Clásica, Response to “El Tiempo” columns 7: Comentario a Francisco Cajiao: “Educar para la Política”
Posted in Philosophical topics, Response to "EL Tiempo" columns (Spanish), on Leo Strauss, on Nicomachean Ethics, on Pangle, on agoristic philosophy, on liberal education, on politics, on prudential questioning, philosophy, tagged agora, agoristic, amelo14, andresmelo, Colombia, columnistas, filosofía política clásica, Francisco Cajiao, on Socrates, Pangle, philosophy, political philosophy, politics, rarefaction, reflection, Strauss on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reflections: Response to “El Tiempo” columns 6: Comentario a Enrique Santos Calderón: “Canje sin arandelas: ¿mucho pedir?” Febrero 15 de 2009.
Posted in Response to "EL Tiempo" columns (Spanish), on politics, tagged amelo14, andresmelo, columnistas, el tiempo, Enrique Santos Calderón, rarefaction, reflection on February 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Response to “El Tiempo” columns 6: Comentario a Enrique Santos Calderón: “Canje sin arandelas: ¿mucho pedir?” Febrero 15 de 2009.
Usted dice: “‘Cano’ es un tipo inteligente, con sardónico sentido del humor, pero forrado en una impenetrable coraza estalinista.”
Jamás imaginé ——en pleno siglo XXI—— que se utilizaran las palabras ‘inteligente‘, ‘cómico’ y ‘estalinista’ en [...]
Reflections: Leo Strauss on moderation and the extremisms of Colombia
Posted in Philosophical topics, education, on Leo Strauss, on agoristic philosophy, on liberal education, on politics, on prudence, on prudential questioning, tagged amelo14, andresmelo, Colombia, political philosophy, politics, rarefaction, reflection, Strauss on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reflections: Leo Strauss on moderation and the extremisms of Colombia
As one regards the politics of extremism ——–both in word and in action—– which guide the reality of our Colombia (whose most grotesque example is ANNCOL), one cannot but hold firm to the words with which Strauss brings to a close his “Liberal Education and Responsibility”:
“We [...]
On Illness 21: Chronic Illness and deep-sea diving
Posted in Philosophical topics, death, freediving, on health, on illness, on prudence, tagged amelo14, andresmelo, chronic illness, freediving, health, illness, rarefaction, reflection on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Illness 21: Chronic Illness and deep-sea diving
We can try to think of many analogies that may aid us in trying to understand the existential reality of chronic illness. However, finding a good analogy for such specific long-term, and in many cases incurable and little understood illnesses, is not so easy. But one must try, [...]
Reflections: Socrates and Xenophon, the philosophic and the political life
Posted in Philosophical topics, education, on Socrates, on Xenophon, on academic philosophy, on agoristic philosophy, on liberal education, on politics, writing, tagged agora, agoristic, amelo14, andresmelo, Memorabilia, on Socrates, philosophy, political philosophy, rarefaction, reflection, The Anabasis of Cyrus, writing, Xenophon on February 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Reflections: Socrates and Xenophon, the philosophic and the political life
At the very least, this is clear. The most fundamental difference between Socrates and Xenophon might be dangerously summarized by saying that Socrates, who rarely felt the need to physically leave Athens, never wished to rule over anyone under any circumstances, while Xenophon —–his questioning and [...]
