Hunter S. Thompson, a "gadfly's gadfly"... though in
otherrespects he was anything but Socratic... even if Socrates also
had a self-destructive streak. But like Socrates,he was committed
to living dangerously in order to advancehuman ideals. That's why
he wrote Fear and Loathing in LasVegas. CP: A place such as Vegas
made a mockery of whatreal gambling, for the greater good of
citizenry andhumanity, was supposed to be all about. 43-4
Freud, like Socrates,said know thyself.
But real self-discovery is not about past-dwelling personal
introspection. It's about advancing society as youdiscover
yourself. 46
A character in PhilipRoth's The HumanStain thinks sex is
bestwhen unalloyed withromance, when a couple has no mutualfeelings
other than those generated bypure sexual arousal.But even so-so
sexwith love is far betterthan the best 'just sex'with no love...
Ray 58
http://www.powells.com/review/2007_09_25 Hitchens, Atlantic
reviews Exit Ghost
Thompson's exit, like his life, was remarkable andstrange...
http://www.cbc.ca/.../Arts/Thompson_Farewell_0820.html
Bertrand Russell's radical sexual ethic:
"Love is what gives intrinsic value to a marriage..." 33
Russell also said, in Our Sexual Ethics (1936):
There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must
happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have
lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to
them.
Asked whether he would be prepared to die for his beliefs,
Russell retorted in whatsome would say is a more Socratic
spiritthan Socrates himself mustered, in Crito -Of course not.
After all, I may be wrong.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Bertrand Russell's radical sexual ethic:
"Love is what gives intrinsic value to a marriage..." 33
Russell also said, in Our Sexual Ethics (1936):
There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must
happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have
lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to
them.
Asked whether he would be prepared to die for his beliefs,
Russell retorted in whatsome would say is a more Socratic
spiritthan Socrates himself mustered, in Crito -Of course not.
After all, I may be wrong.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Bertrand Russell's radical sexual ethic:
"Love is what gives intrinsic value to a marriage..." 33
Russell also said, in Our Sexual Ethics (1936):
There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must
happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have
lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to
them.
Asked whether he would be prepared to die for his beliefs,
Russell retorted in whatsome would say is a more Socratic
spiritthan Socrates himself mustered, in Crito -Of course not.
After all, I may be wrong.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
