From: vzd1s1nd-AT-verizon.net
Subject: Re: RE: Excellent Article by Paul Krugman of the NYTimes
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:29:07 -0600



http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/03/20/009.html


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> From: Jan Straathof <janstr-AT-chan.nl>
> Date: 2003/03/19 Wed PM 02:20:12 CST
> To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> Subject: RE: Excellent Article by Paul Krugman of the NYTimes
> 
> Hi Bob, you wrote:
> 
> >Yes, History.
> >Just look at how alliances and diplomacy worked in the Europe of the 1930s.
> 
> But you're making my point Bob, as long as diplomancy works the state
> will be secure, the moment, however, diplomancy is abandoned (has
> failed, is being corrupted etc. etc.) war looms and often materializes.
> 
> Historically there has always been a strong and intimate link between
> diplomancy and philosophy (and v.v.). Think for instance about the
> role of the Sophist in ancient Greece, many of which were traveling
> ambassadors, diplomates and political advisors. They became famous
> for teaching how to argue on either side of a question, making a living
> by selling a practical skill usefull to politicians and citizens in the law
> courts and assemblies of the democratic city-states. Political issues were
> of central concern in the Sophists's doctrines, especially their ontological
> debates on *nomos* (law, custom) versus *phusis* (nature, being), and
> those on the sources of moral justice and legal obligation. And also in
> ancient China we can observe an early marriage between philosophy and
> diplomancy in the rise of various intellectual communities in and around
> 'Diplomatists Schools'. Glossing the ages we see outstanding figures as
> Aquinas, Erasmus, Montaigne, Leibniz, Hegel, Russell etc. [cf. Collins:
> SOP,1998]
> 
> Well, Bob, i guess all wanted to say is that i think that when diplomancy
> is abandoned, somehow philosophy is abandoned too.
> 
> yours,
> Jan
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