A Behavioral View on
the Development of Mr. and Mrs. Socrates: There are many great boxers who
had antagonistic relationships with, and were indebted to, great trainers. But they (or historians who felt themselves thus
represented) broke with them to absorb all the acclaim to themselves (or their
own kind, culture, gender, etc). Given
Socrates’ great skill at philosophical bickering, it is not impossible that a
contribution by Mrs. Socrates has been buried under the negative label, “Shrew.”
A valuable book, A Human Strategy, aphorism 387
387 A valuable book may be torn to pieces without diminishing the human spirit, just so long as the words have already been read and understood. To feel the loss of the book — at its material destruction, even though one had already digested its contents fully and had aligned oneself toward its overall direction — is evidence that one values the non-human being over human becoming , the static thing over the dynamic process . In response to the fear of our unknowable future we would rather freeze ourselves into a single stage of growth at the expense of the entire metamorphosis. A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism