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On Internet and Protagoras

tradition, truth, updates —

4 Jan 2009

Internet is supposedly coming into my life again on Thursday. In the meantime, I continue to hup over to the Slope where I can sit for endless hours on coffeeshop wifi while I file my unemployment claim and curse life. I have become obsessed with pathetic RPG computer games as a way to while away the hours. It's embarassing, really, but I suppose useful credentials for trying to become a techie again.

In other exciting news, I have my first bitty research goal. Happened across an interesting description of Protagoras (one of the Sophists) that made his conclusions sound an awful lot like some of Hannah Arendt's work in Promise of Politics, particularly the emphasis on tradition as a way to resolve the problem of multiple functional truths. I shall wander about the classics section of the Rose Reading Room next week poking through some of the Sophists' texts. She was quite taken with Socrates in the work, but it'd be interesting to discover her influence really came from elsewhere. In that nerdy sort of way. I guess. Okay, just shut it, okay?

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