Archive for July, 2003

A challenge

Tuesday, July 29th, 2003

Machiavelli has always been a thorn in the side of “political philosophy”; convinced that I am his scion. Facile liberal-moralist anti-readings keep me entertained, much like sociologists who fail to grasp Weber’s nihilism; undecided on the academic merit of these Straussians infiltrating Machiavelli scholarship. I ventured and chanced upon Straussians.net, a site that not only [...]

what a joke

Monday, July 14th, 2003

A customer walks into a bookshop and asks “Can you tell me where the self-help section is?” To which the bookseller replies: “If I told you where it is, that would defeat the purpose”. The reason why I relate this unfunny tale is that I stumbled upon a model “Self-Help” section while in London and [...]

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