Lost Blogging: from before there were blogs
Going through some old papers today I found this quotation written out on a scrap. I'm certain, from my weak recollection and from the strata in which I found it, that the paper well predates our journal here, so we understand from the first the title 'Lost Blogging' in a metaphorical or, even, existential sense. I was sure the quotation (which was unattributed) is from Aristotle, according to my recollection and to the style of writing, and, behold, I found it in the Ethics, at the place designated X.9.12, under the editorial heading "From Ethics to Politics: Moral Education." Aristotle is talking about how to ensure that people are "finely brought up and habituated" in order to be "someone who is good," and his thesis is that one must study politics to this end.
A father's instructions lack this power to prevail and compel; and so in general do the instructions of an individual man, unless he is a king or something like that. Law, however, has the power that compels; and law is reason that proceeds from a sort of prudence and understanding. Besides, people become hostile to an individual human being who opposes their impulses, even if he is correct in opposing them, whereas a law's prescription of what is decent is not burdensome.Presumably one understands the first sentence to be speaking of the case when the child is not a prince or something like that.
And, under the same title, a maybe-related addition to our pantheon of plush or graven idols, icons, and hangers-on, a Hawaiian war deity:
Kū-ka-ili-moku, "Kū the seizer of land."
Labels: An Underground Den, Lost Blogging, Man is something that shall be overcome, Three Thousand Years
8 Comments:
I am hoping that the quote included was not a specfic comment directed at me, more of a general observation. On the other hand, I have always thought of myself as higher than a king on the social scales so am covered in that event.
Is the war deity a new acquistion?
And I myself as higher than a prince, so of course not, and I'm sorry if you read it so. The emphasis was on: "Law has the power that compels; and a law's prescription of what is decent is not burdensome." It was just something I came on while looking through some old papers, which weren't in any order, and it seemed mildly serendipitous at the time. The statue I got just this winter -- actually from someone who couldn't quite remember where he'd come by it, (I had to look it up by comparing other icons). I was just thinking about all this on Saturday.
The statue reminds me of this statue mom seems insistent on me drawing/painting. She claims that I have some talent and that both her and grandpa drew/painted it and now it's my turn. Uh-huh.
I'm going to leave your blog for now and hopefully come back tomorrow, almost time to leave.
I've probably asked this before, but is there some way of getting replies to my comments e-mail to me? I'll admit that I'm terrible about going back and checking for others comments. Something I like about LJ is that if someone replies to my post, or a comment I wrote, it notifies me so I don't have to pay attention :). I have a gmail account, the thing at the bottom says "Google/Blogger", will that help? Maybe I'll look into it tomorrow in a moment of boredom. :)
No, I don't think there's a way. Unfortunately Blogger doesn't seem to thread comments, so I'm not sure it would know what to do anyway. To be sure, a quick search of the relevant part of the FAQ turns up nothing. Apparently there is a way to put up a "Recent Comments" sidebar. However, since really no one leaves comments, it's moot to me.
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