Tag: thought

PHILOSOPHY – Plato
- by Garret Jacobs
- 5 days ago
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Athens, 2400 years ago. It’s a compact place: only about a quarter of a million people live here. There are fine baths, theatres, temples, shopping arcades and gymnasiums It’s warm for more than half the year. This is also home
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Meritocracy
- by Garret Jacobs
- 1 week ago
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Politicians from all walks of life nowadays agree on one thing: we need to build more meritocratic societies. That is, societies where everyone, no matter what their background is, has the chance to succeed on their own merits. This is
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The Perfect Country
- by Garret Jacobs
- 1 week ago
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SOCIOLOGY – Alexis De Tocqueville
- by Garret Jacobs
- 1 week ago
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Democracy was achieved by such a long arduous and heroic struggle that it can feel embarrassing even shameful to be pretty Disappointed by it Perhaps the best guy to such feelings and to Modern democracy in general is a 19th
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PHILOSOPHY – Aristotle
- by Garret Jacobs
- 1 month ago
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Aristotle was born around 384 BC in the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia where his father was the royal doctor. He grew up to be arguably the most influential philosopher ever, with modest nicknames like ‘the master’ and simply ‘the
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PHILOSOPHY – Epicurus
- by Garret Jacobs
- 2 months ago
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This is a philosopher who helps us think about money, capitalism, and our runaway consumer societies Epicurus was an Ancient Greek born in 341 BC. What made him famous was that he spent all his life trying to work out
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How America’s Comedians Became More Intellectual than Many of Its Politicians | A.O. Scott
- by Garret Jacobs
- 3 months ago
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I feel like if you want to see anti-intellectualism on full display you can watch some presidential debates. I mean you can certainly look at our political discourse, some of it anyway, and see well thought and intellect is not
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POLITICAL THEORY – John Ruskin
- by Garret Jacobs
- 4 months ago
- 88 comments
at first glance he’d seem a deeply improbable person to call a political theorist john ruskin one of the most ambitious and impassioned English social reformers of the 19th century seemed to care mostly about one thing beauty which has
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Why Socrates Hated Democracy
- by Garret Jacobs
- 4 months ago
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We are used to thinking very highly of democracy – and by extension, of Ancient Athens, the civilisation that gave rise to it. The Parthenon has become almost a byword for democratic values, which is why so many leaders of
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Law And Justice ❤️
- by Garret Jacobs
- 4 months ago
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