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    A Primer on Classical Political Philosophy
    A Primer on Classical Political Philosophy
    A Primer on Classical Political Philosophy
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    A Primer on Classical Political Philosophy

    By Razie Mah

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    Why a series of primers?
    These primers provide in depth coverage of the nested form constructs in the book: How to Define the Word “Religion”.
    Primers 1 and 2 developed the category-based nested forms discussed in “the meaning underlying the word ‘religion’”.
    The next several primers address “the presence underlying the word ‘religion’”. This presence can be appreciated through a fully differentiated model of “humans in our current Lebenswelt”. Humans exist in society. Humans organize. Human live as individuals in community. Each of these modes of existence relate to one another as a nested form:
    Society( Organization( potential of Individual in Community))
    Primer 3 diagrams the individual in community. Primers 4 and 5 present the organization tier. Primer 6 introduces the institution level of the society tier, starting with an example, the family. Primer 7 reviews How Institutions Think (1986) by British anthropologist Mary Douglas. Primer 8 presents the idea of an infrasovereign religion, using a contemporary political movement as an example. Primer 9 discusses classical political philosophy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRazie Mah
    Release dateJun 14, 2015
    ISBN9781942824121
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      A Primer on Classical Political Philosophy - Razie Mah

      A Primer on Classical Political Philosophy

      Razie Mah

      Published for Smashwords

      7815 U0’

      2015 AD

      Notes on Text

      The ninth primer concerns the society tier. It contemplates three essays by classical philosopher Leo Strauss. The three essays appear in What is Political Philosophy and Other Studies (7759 U0').

      Single quotes and italics are used to group words together.

      In order to convert Ubaid Zero Prime (U0') to Anno Domini (AD), subtract 5800.

      Table of Contents

      Looking Back to Meaning

      An Unnatural Question

      The Question of Classical Philosophy

      Two Questions Rolled into One

      Politics, Politics, Politics

      Objections to Classical Political Philosophy

      On Classical Philosophy

      Good Things

      Political Philosophy and History

      My Response to Historicism

      Conclusion

      Looking Back to Meaning

      0001 In How to Define the Word Religion, sensible and social construction are described in the chapter on the meaning.

      0002 What do I learn from this chapter?

      Sensible construction differs from social construction.

      0003 Consider the evolution of talk.

      Long before the first singularity, sensible construction stands on its own beneath the perspective of reference. Manual-brachial gestures image and point to things. Each hand-talk word refers to a thing. So, gestural-words always make sense, because I can see the gesture and correctly guess what is being imaged or pointed to. The referent is built into the icon and the index. When a fellow team-member hand-talks, sensible construction is always indicated.

      Here is a picture.

      0004 The symbolic orders of language (parole and langue) develop within the perspective of reference. Eventually, symbolic operations (grammar) allow fully linguistic hand-talk statements that are sensical (since the gesture-words are icons and indexes), but do not make sense (due to the grammar). For example, one can hand talk the statement, for a lunar eclipse, A wolf (image) the moon (index) eats. Of course, no wolf can eat the moon. The statement is both grammatically proper and impossible.

      When a sensical hand-talk statement is grammatically correct and counter-intuitive, then sensible construction is not enough. Social construction is an adaptation to the niche of statements, bearing realistic words, but in grammatical configurations that rule out sensible construction.

      0005 After the first singularity, we (fallen humans) live in a dream world where we think that sensible construction situates sensical words. But, it does not. Speech-alone words cannot be sensical, because they do not image or point to anything. They are not icons or indexes.

      0006 What do we sense in speech-alone talk?

      We sense easily distinguished combinations of formant sound-frequencies. A formant is like an envelope of sound that starts and ends in time. Each spoken word has a distinct set of formant frequencies.

      0007 So, how do we connect any particular envelope of sound (or parole) with its referent?

      Well, we project meaning, presence and message onto each spoken word. Every spoken word begins as a perspective-level reference2c socially constructed3b on a content-level reference2a. A content-level reference2a triggers an innate expectation that there must be... um... a referent. I hear a spoken parole. So, there must be a langue to go with this parole. But, if I am not acquainted with the spoken word,

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