"There Are Unknown Unknowns"

Quid sit deus, if a meteor or, worse, an "unknown unknown" can destroy the human race next week? Is "the unknown unknown" the answer? If so, then it seems what saves philosophers from being attempted deicides is the limitlessness of the unknown unknown.

And didn't the Secretary of War abundantly prove Socrates's point about the philosopher appearing as either sophist, statesman, or madman? I don't mean to suggest that the Secretary is a philosopher, but I do mean to hazard the suggestion that he has his philosophic moments. Is there anything more certain than, "There are unknown unknowns"? The ability of the Secretary of War to glimpse that truth and state it seems somehow connected to the remark attributed to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that the Secretary is the most ruthless man he has ever met.

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Power, Powers, Hunting, and Eluding

Power comes to light as this power or that power. Power is too indefinite to be a form. Hunting is too indefinite to be an techne. Rosen's commentary on the Sophist is an externally derived power of actuating the inward power to understand these things. Is eluding likewise too indefinite to be a techne? I think so. If the statesman weaves together courage and moderation, does he seek thereby the power to cloak himself and elude the citizens who would hunt him out of fear and envy? I think so.

With all thy hunting, hunt powers of epithymetic satisfaction.

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