The number zero _is_ an affront to reason. ;)
--- On Tue, 7/28/09, // ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>
> But it is the Platonic turn that continues to worry me.
> After much speculation, I have tentatively concluded that
> there are things about the ancient Greeks that give your
> average white man with a post-graduate degree a boner. Like
> Ronald Reagan for the conservatives, these Hellenic
> superstars seem to exist larger than life, representing all
> sorts of miraculous and foundational promises and desires.
> Hence the zero of the "Hindoos" and the Arabs (here I am not
> quoting Badiou as much as throwing him into a camp, though
> to quote Badiou: "The modern ruination of the Greek
> thinking") is a taint on the purity of Hellenic thought. But
> I digress (for I am once again thinking of Kline, more than
> my new friend Badiou). It is passages such as the below that
> are impenetrable to me:
>