By John F. Sase
Gerard Senick, editor
Julie Sase, copy editor
William Gross, research
Using the Works of Plato as Building Blocks During the Nineteenth Century—a Northern European Example
In recent months, I discovered the newest, most thorough, and clearest translation of all the “Complete works of Plato, Edited, with Introduction and Notes,” by John M. Cooper published by Hackett Publishing based in Indianapolis and Cambridge. Cooper and more than forty other academic writers. This compilation of more than 1,740 pages purports to include the complete collection of all writing by Plato. This is not a bathroom book unless one has a terrible case of constipation.
For those who grew up reading the works of Plato, this compilation begins with the Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito. It ends with Eryxias, Axiochus, and Epigrams…all translated and carefully edited in a manner engaging to the modern reader. Having been taught by Jesuit brothers and priests for twelve years, I find this modern translation to be well worth the read and further study. This extensive work has encouraged me to consider and write about my modern family history. It has helped me contribute to forming my modern worldview of life and events.
Plato’s view of history has assisted me in expressing the more recent history of myself and the family backgrounds of many of us. It appears that a majority of us, across our respective and chosen fields, have found that who we have become reflects and resounds upon ancestries over hundreds and years with numerous higher and lower points that have brought us into the 21st Century.
Generally, we have been blessed with the observations and experiences of multiple generations shared with us by numerous generations with lifetimes filled with practical applications of inherent skills.
When humans look ahead or go back in time, we find that structures, dimensions, and time itself become increasingly vague and gossamer.
The further back in time that we look, the more gossamer our family histories become. Most of us accumulate such knowledge that has been passed along from generation to generation. Often, we discover our similarities with others through common events of the past centuries. In our current era, we may have the good fortune to tie together numerous past episodes. Given stacks of history books and common folklore, we may often find pieces to the puzzle through common roots that fade into a gossamer past.
For example, many of us have heard of common experiences involving our more immediate families that have emerged through various collaborations and partnerships of the families who made their living from what our ancestors had drawn from the lakes, seas, and oceans. Sometimes, through sharing their catch with those habitants residing in the inland areas and mountains, comraderies through the mixing of families who lived in a mountain chateau, along with others who successfully mined gold and similar minerals may have discovered a common and successful path to modern banking. More recently, Caroline Bouvier Kennedy found her way into such a family in recent years. In Detroit, at least one from an ancient mountain family followed his passion through studying sunny days and other climate changes.
In Detroit, the children of the younger son (one who was second in line to inherit) of a family who began in the ancient European fishing trade, followed his passion for wagon and carriage building in Ohio. The elder son and his family escaped a certain death instigated by Otto von Bismark. Those who escaped from Northern Europe through the Devil’s Bite just to the west of Hamburg, through the aid of family and friends.
For the many coming, as planned, to Michigan, they understood and chose to start anew, through a somewhat alternative way of life in the lumber camps along the Au Sable River. This group movement commenced in 1885. However, the “changes to come” appear to have emerged some 90 years preceding an extensive migration to America.
Française et Polonaise
The great French migration to America fell into step during the decades following the French Revolution of 1776 through 1799. Given this observation, we may suspect that the major Polish families developed in accord with major French families until the latter quarter of that previous century. The French settled in Michigan, while strongly focused on redevelopment of the ancient cities along the strait between Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Hence, the new French settlement became known as the City of Detroit (in French, La Cite de la Troit ... the city of the Strait ... aka, Detroit).
Along with their wives and the traditional form of arranged marriages practiced by the Piasecki (anglicized to Sands) and members of other related communities from along the Atlantic coast, multiple “daughters of Poland” and “sons of Saxony” traveled westward to Mideastern-Michigan. Taught by elder kin who continued to accompany their younger heirs as they reached adulthood, numerous couples built and managed food and supply stores in the small town of Emery Junction (now known as National City) and adjacent locations along the old Detroit-Mackinac Railroad line.
The store owners prepared and sold box and bag lunches to travelers who journeyed northward into Michigan from the Lake Erie shores of Ohio.
Meanwhile, early craftsmen who built wagons and carriages discovered new prosperity in Detroit and beyond throughout the early years of the newly formed vehicle industry. For these folks, the tasks of hunting and fishing began to emerge as more of a matter of sport and fine dining, instead of one of harsher daily survival.
However, the further the digression from the finite, a vaguer progression appeared to head toward the infinite which brought forth a greater (though subtler) clarity beyond current time and space. In turn, such approaches led to greater clarity of consciousness that accompanied subtle understanding that appeared beyond the goal of precision.
Gerard Senick, editor
Julie Sase, copy editor
William Gross, research
Using the Works of Plato as Building Blocks During the Nineteenth Century—a Northern European Example
In recent months, I discovered the newest, most thorough, and clearest translation of all the “Complete works of Plato, Edited, with Introduction and Notes,” by John M. Cooper published by Hackett Publishing based in Indianapolis and Cambridge. Cooper and more than forty other academic writers. This compilation of more than 1,740 pages purports to include the complete collection of all writing by Plato. This is not a bathroom book unless one has a terrible case of constipation.
For those who grew up reading the works of Plato, this compilation begins with the Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito. It ends with Eryxias, Axiochus, and Epigrams…all translated and carefully edited in a manner engaging to the modern reader. Having been taught by Jesuit brothers and priests for twelve years, I find this modern translation to be well worth the read and further study. This extensive work has encouraged me to consider and write about my modern family history. It has helped me contribute to forming my modern worldview of life and events.
Plato’s view of history has assisted me in expressing the more recent history of myself and the family backgrounds of many of us. It appears that a majority of us, across our respective and chosen fields, have found that who we have become reflects and resounds upon ancestries over hundreds and years with numerous higher and lower points that have brought us into the 21st Century.
Generally, we have been blessed with the observations and experiences of multiple generations shared with us by numerous generations with lifetimes filled with practical applications of inherent skills.
When humans look ahead or go back in time, we find that structures, dimensions, and time itself become increasingly vague and gossamer.
The further back in time that we look, the more gossamer our family histories become. Most of us accumulate such knowledge that has been passed along from generation to generation. Often, we discover our similarities with others through common events of the past centuries. In our current era, we may have the good fortune to tie together numerous past episodes. Given stacks of history books and common folklore, we may often find pieces to the puzzle through common roots that fade into a gossamer past.
For example, many of us have heard of common experiences involving our more immediate families that have emerged through various collaborations and partnerships of the families who made their living from what our ancestors had drawn from the lakes, seas, and oceans. Sometimes, through sharing their catch with those habitants residing in the inland areas and mountains, comraderies through the mixing of families who lived in a mountain chateau, along with others who successfully mined gold and similar minerals may have discovered a common and successful path to modern banking. More recently, Caroline Bouvier Kennedy found her way into such a family in recent years. In Detroit, at least one from an ancient mountain family followed his passion through studying sunny days and other climate changes.
In Detroit, the children of the younger son (one who was second in line to inherit) of a family who began in the ancient European fishing trade, followed his passion for wagon and carriage building in Ohio. The elder son and his family escaped a certain death instigated by Otto von Bismark. Those who escaped from Northern Europe through the Devil’s Bite just to the west of Hamburg, through the aid of family and friends.
For the many coming, as planned, to Michigan, they understood and chose to start anew, through a somewhat alternative way of life in the lumber camps along the Au Sable River. This group movement commenced in 1885. However, the “changes to come” appear to have emerged some 90 years preceding an extensive migration to America.
Française et Polonaise
The great French migration to America fell into step during the decades following the French Revolution of 1776 through 1799. Given this observation, we may suspect that the major Polish families developed in accord with major French families until the latter quarter of that previous century. The French settled in Michigan, while strongly focused on redevelopment of the ancient cities along the strait between Lake Huron and Lake Erie. Hence, the new French settlement became known as the City of Detroit (in French, La Cite de la Troit ... the city of the Strait ... aka, Detroit).
Along with their wives and the traditional form of arranged marriages practiced by the Piasecki (anglicized to Sands) and members of other related communities from along the Atlantic coast, multiple “daughters of Poland” and “sons of Saxony” traveled westward to Mideastern-Michigan. Taught by elder kin who continued to accompany their younger heirs as they reached adulthood, numerous couples built and managed food and supply stores in the small town of Emery Junction (now known as National City) and adjacent locations along the old Detroit-Mackinac Railroad line.
The store owners prepared and sold box and bag lunches to travelers who journeyed northward into Michigan from the Lake Erie shores of Ohio.
Meanwhile, early craftsmen who built wagons and carriages discovered new prosperity in Detroit and beyond throughout the early years of the newly formed vehicle industry. For these folks, the tasks of hunting and fishing began to emerge as more of a matter of sport and fine dining, instead of one of harsher daily survival.
However, the further the digression from the finite, a vaguer progression appeared to head toward the infinite which brought forth a greater (though subtler) clarity beyond current time and space. In turn, such approaches led to greater clarity of consciousness that accompanied subtle understanding that appeared beyond the goal of precision.
Europe: 1842
Europe: 1885
Arranged Marriages to Strengthen the Stock
During the fourth quarter of the Nineteenth Century, two, well placed, Austrian males developed a home for numerous families along the lower-westward corner of Lake Michigan and inward into Michigan, Two Duke brothers from Vienna (Not to be confused with Randolph and Mortimer Duke who founded Duke & Duke Commodity Brokers) followed a well-established custom of forming arranged marriages.
From Chicagoland, with backing from additional relatives along the west coast of Lake Michigan and the east coast of Illinois, this ducal pair sought out the elder line of the Koenig-Fisher brothers who left under the duress created by Otto Von Bismarck in 1885. Their family-based oral history extended downward through the decades while fermenting through the duress created via Otto von Bismark.
Otto Von Bismarck
In accord with well-established alliances and customs brought westward from central Europe, these two brothers produced marriage alliances between the elder daughter of the Polish house. The immediate family left Europe in response to the massive takeover of Central Europe including Poland and accompanying sovereign states by Otto von Bismarck.
Note: Hans-Adam of Liechtenstein details much of this expansive history both clearly, as well as deeply, in his book “The State in the Third Millennium” (van Eck Publishers, 3rd ed. 2017).
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Dr. John F. Sase teaches Economics at Wayne State University and has practiced Forensic and Investigative Economics for twenty years. He earned a combined M.A. in Economics and an MBA at the University of Detroit, followed by a Ph.D. in Economics from Wayne State University. He is a graduate of the University of Detroit Jesuit High School (www.saseassociates.com).
Gerard J. Senick is a freelance writer, editor, and musician. He earned his degree in English at the University of Detroit and was a supervisory editor at Gale Research Company (now Cengage) for over twenty years. Currently, he edits books for publication (www.senick-editing.com).
Julie G. Sase is a copyeditor, parent coach, and empath. She earned her degree in English at Marygrove College and her graduate certificate in Parent Coaching from Seattle Pacific University. Ms. Sase coaches clients, writes articles, and edits copy (royaloakparentcoaching.com).
During the fourth quarter of the Nineteenth Century, two, well placed, Austrian males developed a home for numerous families along the lower-westward corner of Lake Michigan and inward into Michigan, Two Duke brothers from Vienna (Not to be confused with Randolph and Mortimer Duke who founded Duke & Duke Commodity Brokers) followed a well-established custom of forming arranged marriages.
From Chicagoland, with backing from additional relatives along the west coast of Lake Michigan and the east coast of Illinois, this ducal pair sought out the elder line of the Koenig-Fisher brothers who left under the duress created by Otto Von Bismarck in 1885. Their family-based oral history extended downward through the decades while fermenting through the duress created via Otto von Bismark.
Otto Von Bismarck
In accord with well-established alliances and customs brought westward from central Europe, these two brothers produced marriage alliances between the elder daughter of the Polish house. The immediate family left Europe in response to the massive takeover of Central Europe including Poland and accompanying sovereign states by Otto von Bismarck.
Note: Hans-Adam of Liechtenstein details much of this expansive history both clearly, as well as deeply, in his book “The State in the Third Millennium” (van Eck Publishers, 3rd ed. 2017).
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Dr. John F. Sase teaches Economics at Wayne State University and has practiced Forensic and Investigative Economics for twenty years. He earned a combined M.A. in Economics and an MBA at the University of Detroit, followed by a Ph.D. in Economics from Wayne State University. He is a graduate of the University of Detroit Jesuit High School (www.saseassociates.com).
Gerard J. Senick is a freelance writer, editor, and musician. He earned his degree in English at the University of Detroit and was a supervisory editor at Gale Research Company (now Cengage) for over twenty years. Currently, he edits books for publication (www.senick-editing.com).
Julie G. Sase is a copyeditor, parent coach, and empath. She earned her degree in English at Marygrove College and her graduate certificate in Parent Coaching from Seattle Pacific University. Ms. Sase coaches clients, writes articles, and edits copy (royaloakparentcoaching.com).
