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To: average joe who wrote (24413)	4/9/2012 9:11:03 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

"The idea of "woe to the conquered" can be found in Homer and the hawk parable in Hesiod's 'Works and Days' and in Livy, in which " vae victis", Latin for "woe to the conquered", is first recorded." Thomas Hobbes was probably the most honest philosopher who ever lived--as were probably a dozen others. (I know that sounds strange). His insights were those of a Shakespeare--and perhaps more. Many have overlooked him because he did not speak in the obscure language of a Spinoza or a Hume. -g- plato.stanford.edu

To: average joe who wrote (24413)	4/11/2012 9:52:37 AM
From: one_less	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Strife creates masters of some and slaves of others. Human beings enter strife as they are born into a world conditioned by the animus of one to another. Those who deny it arrest the unfolding process of becoming, which is essention to a thriving being. Being in this life enlists the process of creative becoming as in the quintessential case of the language example. If, when considering the polemic issues of evolution, you hope to understand the place of human beings as a type, or being human as an individual, follow the Greek scholarly arguments which begin here (language). Being is concealed, truth is revealed as the we realize what we are through the unfolding process, lifting veils, and be-coming ... or in the unraveling process, as is sometimes the case here abouts. What is to become of you pinok?