Comments on: Beards and Philosophers

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By: Lakesha Geesey

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By: “Unix Beards” part of a distinguished tradition « Two Ideas

“Unix Beards” part of a distinguished tradition « Two Ideas — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:14:25 +0000

[...] was the Command Line doesn’t seem to note that the Unix beard is really an extension of the philosopher’s beard, and the academic’s beard. (Perhaps that oversight is only fair, as One Thousand Beards [...]

By: beardless non-philosopher

beardless non-philosopher — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:52:15 +0000

I don’t think we can blame Carneades’ bad reception at Rome on his beard. I’m not sure about Roman shaving habits in the second century, but by Cicero’s time (when clean-shaven was certainly the mainstream fashion), big beards were associated with old-fashioned ancestral virtues. In the Pro Caelio, Cicero makes a big deal of the distinction between the little goatees of modern wastrels like Clodius and “that bristly beard we see on ancient statues and images” of famous old Romans like Appius Claudius Caecus. Carneades’ beard might have given him a reputation for great virtue, if he had only kept his mouth shut.

By: Palash Dave

Palash Dave — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:06:14 +0000

All great philosophers have beards. I have a beard. Therefore I am a great philosopher.

By: neil

neil — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:08:42 +0000

Does this make Keith Flett, founder of the Beard Liberation Front, a philosopher?

Before commenting should people declare themselves as bearded or not bearded? I am not bearded.

There are those who declare that a beard is not a beard until you have to decide to sleep with it under or over the duvet.

Tom wolfe has his “Masters of the Universe”. Michael Lewis had his “big swinging dicks” (questionable attribution?). So do philosophy departments have their “big swinging beards”?

By: Chris Brooke

Chris Brooke — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:03:17 +0000

No, a blog doesn’t a philosopher make, but Norm’s philosophical work is independent of his blogging, and much of it is very good indeed.

By: ejh

ejh — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:55:48 +0000

A beard does not a philosopher make

Possibly the modern equivalent would be “a blog does not a philosopher make” which would certainly apply to Norman Geras.

By: ejh

ejh — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:39:17 +0000

Observing book signings in my part of the world, there seems to be a high incidence of beards among authors. In Britain this would presumably only indicate a liking for real ale.

By: Nick Brooke

Nick Brooke — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:08:12 +0000

Maxim Gorky, or one of his characters at least, blamed the Great Schism on a beard (“And from the same source, from the beard, arose also the Great Schism,” in Through Russia).