From jfgannon@cloud9.net Thu Apr 1 18:40:45 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id SAA47478 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:40:44 -0800 Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id SAA29461 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:40:43 -0800 Received: from default (jfgannon.dialup.cloud9.net [168.100.203.180]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 026C876437 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 21:40:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <37042E17.45D@cloud9.net> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 21:40:23 -0500 From: "J.F. Gannon" X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: The Academia about Kosovo References: <3703F1D7.16E7@cloud9.net> <3703FC84.EF004C2@ath.forthnet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanos Syros wrote: > > Antrea Hatzipolaki what are you trying to do? > Leave the academicians in their high level of thought. > They dont care about missiles, refugees, war, dead people, 3 billion dollars of > damages, an entire area in the flames of the war. > Let them rest in their peace of mind, and politicians like Clinton who knows how they > are thinking to do his job (eg. to kill more people). > Don disturb the philosophers, the sophists, the "thinkers", the elite with such > problems. > There are other lists for people talking politics. That is precisely the point. You are quite right. This is not such a list. What ever happened to so:phrosune:? > But the ancient Greeks said that "citizens that they are not interested in politics > they do not have the right to call themselves free citizens.". > The ancients called them "idiotes" (idiots in modern English). A preference for using lists for the purposes for which they were established does not indicate a lack of interest in other matters, much less a lack of concern. J.F. Gannon .