Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JohnM who wrote (201088)	9/12/2012 12:35:33 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542013

I'm told that Harvey Mansfield, a Harvard professor of government, is such. I don't know his work but friends who know it, consider it first rate as a body of work. I have read some of his work, and have heard him speak. He has done a few interesting things, but he is a Leo Straussian crank. A little like Alan Bloom, although perhaps more circumspect in his writing (not his talking, though, at least in the talk I heard). Personally, I like Michael Oakeshott better. At least, if he counts as contemporary. If Niehbuhr counts as contemporary, I'd rate him highly too, but maybe he is too "old."

To: JohnM who wrote (201088)	9/12/2012 12:35:56 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542013

I have no desire to argue with you John. I will look those fellows up. But, like you, I read a lot and I have just simply never seen a conservative philosophy I thought made sense. Never?? I have no compunction about embracing a conservative position if it makes sense. Contrary to how I might seem, I am no ideologue. I have always just looked for what I considered the best answers to forming a healthy and happy society; and I have spent a lot of my life considering those questions. That is all I have ever cared about. I mostly just think in terms of societies needs. As far as myself goes. I am just a flawed human like all of us, doing the best I can to get through life. And I try to pay for my sins by being as kind as I can.