Lots of reminders and insights in his piece.....beginning with the simple fact that what, in the end, saved him was a father who insisted his son think hard and well for himself. A touch of Socrates against Islam's mind-numbing Calliclean brays.
Which is depressing, because even in the Western universities [never mind the Madrassahs]the Socratic is barely even a memory.
Am now in the "greater" Boston area, and as soon as have a computer set up [using Framingham's library right now]will return to this blog, to the world and to thought, and perhaps even to Life.
Later, amici
Hmmm... Socrates. Isn't he the old goat playing footsie with Alcibiades in one of those Avril paintings?
ReplyDeleteThis article smacks of a condensed version of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel, but without the female circumcision component.
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