Nicholas: Another fascinating guidance around the world - of the world of personalities and thought. Favourites from to-day: Exchanges between Churchill pére et fils et mére et fils; Darren Allen on "...affairs made puzzling by thought" (laugh out loud - almost); Café Sheherezzade and Arnold Zable's book - which I read some years ago with memories of visits to Eastern Europe-in-St Kilda from many decades ago; that Virtue AND signalling are good -something I've long thought when reading/hearing the sneers from Peta C and A Bolt and gang; the story of Nobel winner Chandrasekan and his class of two - both of whom won Nobel Prizes in Physics; and the discussion of Socrates and the distinguishing "principles" of Dialectal (the argument (rigorous) to uncover the truth - and the Eristical (a new term for me) out of which via sophistry and rhetoric there is a "winner" of the argument - though whether truth is found or not is not necessarily the point. This latter revelation indicted so-called "debate" in our British-derived Parliamentary system and as well the way in which our British-inherited legal system operates - totally adversarial - the truth not sought - merely a winning in the clash of prosecutor and defence. Thanks, NG. Heaviosity - now has its own corner in your Saturday blog! Bravo!
Nicholas: Another fascinating guidance around the world - of the world of personalities and thought. Favourites from to-day: Exchanges between Churchill pére et fils et mére et fils; Darren Allen on "...affairs made puzzling by thought" (laugh out loud - almost); Café Sheherezzade and Arnold Zable's book - which I read some years ago with memories of visits to Eastern Europe-in-St Kilda from many decades ago; that Virtue AND signalling are good -something I've long thought when reading/hearing the sneers from Peta C and A Bolt and gang; the story of Nobel winner Chandrasekan and his class of two - both of whom won Nobel Prizes in Physics; and the discussion of Socrates and the distinguishing "principles" of Dialectal (the argument (rigorous) to uncover the truth - and the Eristical (a new term for me) out of which via sophistry and rhetoric there is a "winner" of the argument - though whether truth is found or not is not necessarily the point. This latter revelation indicted so-called "debate" in our British-derived Parliamentary system and as well the way in which our British-inherited legal system operates - totally adversarial - the truth not sought - merely a winning in the clash of prosecutor and defence. Thanks, NG. Heaviosity - now has its own corner in your Saturday blog! Bravo!
Thanks Jim :)