“Plato 427-347 B.C.”

For the Thursday, July 10, 2024 report, I separate strategic activities, the first appropriate for a Heideggerian survey of being and the second, being the application of our cognitive faculties to constructive relations that are mediated between state and society. Doing this in manner, fashion, and effectiveness.

The first state of being is a barbaric, anti-positivist acct.

“Thrasymachus behaves, i.e., angrily, fanatically, or savagely … we must admit that his violent reaction is to some extent a revolt of common sense … the most savage man present should maintain a most savage thesis on justice.”

The next state is eternal, “public-spiritedness, full dedication to the city as a particular society which as such is potentially enemy of other cities.”

This confluence is what Strauss calls “legal positivism.”

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