Nietzsche and the Nazis (Was Re: aesthetics)

[Bradford DeLong]

>Brad wrote:
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>>A competent philosopher writes in such a way as to make it 
>>hard--not easy--for misreaders...
>
>Nothing is easier than misreading.  No philosopher is more competent
>than Plato, and none more aware of the propensity to misread,
>but none has been more misread, and in more different ways.
>
>Shane Mage

And the dialogue form was rapidly abandoned after Plato because it 
proved so vulnerable to misreading...