Friday, August 1, 2008
Philosophical Lexicon, 2008 edition
Maybe I'm way behind the curve on this, but I just discovered that a new edition of the Philosophical Lexicon has been released. For those who are insufficiently geeky, this document provides definitions of mock words typically formed from (or inspired by) the proper names of living philosophers. If you get even half of the jokes, you're off the scale in geekitude. Good luck!
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This tradition goes way, way back. Aristophanes coined a verb "to Socratize" (socrateo), which he used in "The Birds" line 1284. It gets translated as though it's a proper noun, unfortunately:
"Before your city was built, all men had a mania for Sparta: *long hair and fasting were held in honor, men went dirty like Socrates and carried staves*."
But the Greek is a slew of verbs in the imperfect in rapid-fire succession: ekomen epeinon errupton esocratoun skutali' ephoroun.
All the fun gets lost in translation.
Some years ago, I formulated a different definition for "Scrutonize":
To take up a commonly-held position and articulate and defend it in such a way as to make everyone abandon it.
Your "scrutonize" is *much* better. LMFAO.
You're too kind....
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