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Politics : Koan and Ralph Emerson's Far Right and Far Left Whacked Out

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From: John McCarthy	2/28/2007 8:14:25 PM
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Gold $640 ..... Justification for posting ..... The longest pass in history * Aristotle does The Rhetoric .... public.iastate.edu * ..... a couple of hundred years goes by ...... * Cicero (Julius Ceaser time point) reads Aristotle's (The Rhetoric) and gets a hard-on * And goes Aritotle one better with his own work called the Oratory ... towson.edu * ..... a 1200 hundred years go by ...... * (1225) Thomas Aquinas read Aristotle's stuff, gets a hard-on and reconciles (attempts to) Aritotles Metaphysicts to Christanity plato.stanford.edu * (1245) Dante reads Aquinas and $hits out - the Divine Comedy - and the world;s light bulb comes back on historyguide.org * ..... Heres where it gets fun ...... * (1350) Petrarch bored as ever - savages all the old monistaries and finds Cicero's stuff written in a weird thing called high (classic) latin The first stuff he reads is this -- Pro Archia europaeum.org from which he takes it upon himself to launch a new thingie which 600 years later we would come to call humanism. It was originally called Studia humanitatis ands about .. studiahumanitatis.org * Petrarch ever the hard-on - says for now on he's gonna read the ancients because thats the way to go ... and skip that other stuff and so like some 1967 hippie he starts this stuff ... historyguide.org (in fact he's even call the father of it) * Not satisfied -Petrarch goes further crazy and kicks this other guy in the ass - whose named Boccaccio .... to get with the movement ... brynmawr.edu * For good measure Petrarch takes another gander at some stuff done in Sicily (1220) called Sonnets - and decides to tweak them .... And the point is - Chaucer wouldn't be Chaucer without Boccaccio Shakespear wouldn't be Shakespear without Petrarch Boccaccio wouldn't be Boccaccio without Dante Dante wouldn't be Dante without Aquinas Aquinas wouldn't be Aquinas without Aristotle Petrarch wouldn't Petrarch without Cicero Humanism wouldn't be humanism without Petrarch and therefore .... Petrarch is responsible for the left-wing - never face the facts liberals - that we have to read on message boards today <V> you know the kind - those free thinkers its Petrarch's fault ... regards, John

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