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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Kalev’s Anti-Blog: Remarks on ‘Macbeth’
By Kalev Pehme Of the work of Shakespeare, no play has as an extensive elaboration of preternatural or (perhaps) supernatural beings as Macbeth. That the three witches are preternatural as opposed to supernatural means that the old crones do not … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Poetry, Slow and Close Reading
Tagged "tale told by an idiot", "unsex me here", Banquo, Birnam Wood, Cawdor, Christian, Christianity, Coleridge, divine law, Duncan, Dunsinane, England, Fleance, Glamis, Hamlet, James I, Lady Macbeth, legitimacy, Macbeth, Macduff, nature, occult, preternatural, Queen Elizabeth I, Scotland, Shakespeare, suicide, supernatural, Tallyrand, Thane of Fife, three fates, three witches, tyranny, weird sisters, wyrd sisters
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: A Post Scriptum: Maimonides So Close Yet So Far…
In my previous post on Maimonides’s Letter on Astrology, I noted that Leo Strauss had implied that Maimonides had accepted the philosopher’s distinction between god as a remote cause the affects of proximate cause on human beings. I had thought … Continue reading
Posted in astrology, Cosmology, Leo Strauss, Philosophy
Tagged accidental, actual, Aristotle, convention, conventional, efficient cause, essential, final cause, formal cause, four cause, Letter on Astrology, Maimonides, material cause, mutakallimum, natural, nature, particular, Philosophy, potential, proximate cause, remote cause, separate intelligences, The City and Man, theos, tort law, Treatise on the Art of Logic, universal
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: Maimonides’ ‘Letter on Astrology,’ Leo Strauss, and Some Luck
By Kalev Pehme For my friend Scott Alexander, one of the best readers of Maimonides; may he get the recognition he well deserves… One realizes when reading Maimonides’s Letter on Astrology, a comparatively short work, that it is an immensely … Continue reading
Posted in astrology, Cosmology, Leo Strauss, Philosophy, Slow and Close Reading
Tagged 6:10, Alexander of Aphrodisias, angelology, angels, Aristotle, Astrology, Averroes, Book of Job, Caldeans, Canaan, chance, destruction of the Temple, diaspora, doxa, Egypt, endoxa, Epistle on Astrology, fortuna, Guide for the Perplexed, Ibn Rushd, Internet, Jerusalem, John Paul II, Jyotish, Kabbalah, karma, Letter on Astrology, luck, Machiavelli, Maimonides, Masada, Messiah, Messianaic age, Mishneh Torah, Moses, particular providence, Plato, poorvapunya, providence, Ptolemy, Rambam, Randall Jarrell, Sabeans, Sabians, schekhinah, Second Temple, separate intelligences, Song of Songs, sphere, St. Isidore, St. Isidore of Seville, Thomas Aquinas, Tiberius, Torah, tuche, tyche, Vedic astrology
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Kalev’s Anti-Blog: The Renaissance and the post-Renaissance World of Rembrandt and Caravaggio and the Human Soul
The Renaissance died in 1620 in much the same way that the same way as the US Depression started with the stock market crash of `1929. There are many reasons for it, but if we want to be very contemporary … Continue reading
Posted in Leo Strauss, Mythology, Philosophy
Tagged 1620, Archbishop Laud, Aristotle, Bacon, Bernini, Birth of Venus, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Cardinal Richelieu, Count-Duke of Olivares, Counter-Reformation, da Vinci, Descartes, Dr. Johnson, Duke of Buckingham, Duke of Lerma, Earl of Richmond, Frank O’Hara, Giovanni Bellini, Guido Reni, Hobbes, Howard B. White, Howard White, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Juliet, King Lear, Kojeve, Larry Rivers, Machiavelli, Maria de Medicis, Michelangelo, mimesis, Oliver Cromwell, Pope Julius II, Poussin, Primavera, Puritans, Reformation, Rembrandt, Renaissance, Richard II, Richard III, Romeo, Rousseau, self, Shakespeare, Sistine Chapel, soul, Spinoza, Thirty Years War, Titian, Valázquez
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