Judicious Hooker

καλὸς κἀγαθός Celebrating the humor and eroticism in liberal education.

[judicioushooker-blog]

"Do you think that's fit for a young man to hear... [of]... Zeus, alone and awake, making plans while the other gods and men sleep, easily forgetting all of them because of sexual desire, and so struck when he sees Hera that he isn't even willing to go into the house, but wants to have intercourse right there on the ground, saying that he wasn't so full of desire even when they first went unto one another, 'unbeknownst to their dear parents?'"

Socrates to Adeimantus, in Plato's Republic

[critical-theory]

[ratak-monodosico]

New Post has been published on http://www.critical-theory.com/philosophy-bingo-the-latest-innovation-in-classroom-slacking/

Philosophy Bingo - The Latest Innovation in Classroom Slacking

Invented for Reddit, but probably more fun in your philosophy class.

Here’s how it works. You and your friends print out a copy before your philosophy class. Mark each square whenever a classmate performs a listed action. For instance, if a classmate says “I really believe Ayn Rand’s Objectivism, the one true philosophy, mandates an anarcho-capitalist society,” you would make the two corresponding squares. The center square can either be a free space, or filled in whenever a classmate says something that can be classified as a crock of shit.

When you fill an entire row (including a diagonal row), you yell “Bingo!” (or maybe “Bullshit!”) and promptly get thrown out of your class.

Now to waste all day tomorrow creating the vastly superior “Critical Theory Bingo.”

[H/T Reddit]

[ilovecharts]

History’s Great Floss-ophers 

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(Submitted via)

[c-aesarion]

happy valentines day ancient-historians 

[hephaistionisawesome]

Late to the party but this is perfection.

[sepdet]

Let’s Play Ancient Greek Punishment: free retro games by Pippin Barr.

These are so tasteless and so brilliant.

Also, handy reference guide for Greek mythology students: never get Tantalus and Sisyphus mixed up again!

(Zeno isn’t a mythological figure, he’s just the guy who discovered the underlying principle of dissertation writing.) 

[periegesisvoid-deactivated]

Is it possible to win these?

[the-venereal-bede-deactivated20]

Guess.

[aherooftheirtime]

Classics pick-up lines

"Hey, are you an intervocalic sigma? Because you give me compensatory lengthening"

"Hey, girl, is your name Plato? Because I want to see your cave."

"Hey, boy, are you Crassus? Because I want you in my triumvirate."

"Hey, girl, are you a smooth breathing mark? Because you take my breath away."

[gollurn-deactivated20190730]

Here’s to receiving the presidential treatment this valentine’s day

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[huggingthehorse-blog]

[ratak-monodosico]

Analytic vs. Continental Philosophy, #1

(I know, I know, contrasting a geographical with a methodological term makes for a dumb distinction etc, but you all know what I mean)

[whatshouldwecallhomer]

Apparently, Patroclus is most often described as Achilles’ therapon, a word that has been translated variously as “henchman,” “companion,” “attendant,” or “helper.” But Gregory Nagy went back and traced the Indo-European roots of the word therapon and found that it originally meant “ritual...

[faariah]

[monsieurlabette]

"Eros," "Love in Idleness," or “Icarus" (detail) Sidney Harold Meteyard.

[juntunen]

"Just tell me I’m pretty, Franklin."

Joseph Stalin, touching himself alone.

Diary entry. January 3rd, 1944.

(via juntunen)

[judicioushooker-blog]

Aristophanes' "Clouds", lines 1066-70

Just Speech: Yes, and Peleus also married Thetis because of his moderation.

Unjust Speech: Yes, and then she went off and abandoned him, for he wasn't hubristic or pleasant to spend all night with in the bedclothes. A woman delights in being treated wantonly. But you are a big Kronos...

[judicioushooker-blog]

Aristophanes' "Clouds", lines 996-97

Just Speech: ...and not to dart into a dancing girl's house, lest you be broken off from your good fame / by being hit with a fruit by a whore* while gaping at the things there...

* It is thought that girls sometimes indicated their willingness to be seduced by tossing a man a piece of fruit

[judicioushooker-blog]

Strauss, too, must appeal to his students' passions in order to recruit them as philosophers, but he must so shape these passions that they will compel the students to do what the passions would otherwise oppose, to begin the long and difficult journey to wisdom. Strauss must thus play the part of the seducer, and exoteric allegiance to the ancient model of esotericism may play a critical role in this process of seduction.

Michael L. Frazer, "Esotericism Ancient and Modern: Strauss Contra Straussianism on the Art of Political-Philosophical Writing"

[jumbo-queer]

the best moment in literary history is by far the time in the odyssey when odysseus and his bros stab polyphemus the cyclops in his eye but he thinks odysseus’ name is “no one” so he thrashes about the cave screaming “NO ONE BLINDED ME!!!” and the other cyclopes are like “oh my god polyphemus SHUT UP”

[juntunen]

cc: judicioushooker

[judicioushooker-blog]

I see you, juntunen

[judicioushooker-blog]

He expresses the most naive surprise that all the philosophers he once worshipped in ignorance are after all stupid and dishonest and make disgusting mistakes!

David Pinsent on Ludwig Wittgenstein, May 1912