It’s interesting to me to see how the media, and hence the public, are responding to Coronavirus (I think that’s the correct way around, but it’s hard to say who’s leading who sometimes). The risk of death is remote (a mortality rate of between 0.7% and 3.0% currently depending...
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the origin of an aristocratic society (that is to say, of the preliminary condition for the elevation of the type "man"): the truth is hard. Let us acknowledge unprejudicedly how every higher civilization hitherto has ORIGINATED! Men with a still natural nature, barbarians in every terrible ...
Ultimately, Cicero compares Dionysius to Plato andArchimedes, who spent happy lives in the pursuit of intellectual inquiry. In Book V, Cicero says he found the long lost tomb of Archimedes, and it inspired him. Fear of death and retribution is what made Dionysius wretched, says Cicero: Archime...
academia render many of those arguments into somewhat esoteric points that sound appealing, especially for the representatives of the humanities themselves, hence the converted, but that might fail to convince anyone on the outside who is asked to pay either taxes or tuition for the university as...
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“dictator” was not derogatory as it is now. The early Roman dictators were revered judges or “magistrates” who were given absolute power for a limited time to deal with social or political emergencies. Modern dictators are compared more to the many tyrants who ruledAncient Greece and Sparta...
Moral arguments are made that you actually have a duty to protect your own life because it is precious, and to protect the life of your family members and even other innocents if you are able. People bent on aggression, on preying upon their fellow citizens, on bringing death and ...
Latin American dictatorships” as not belonging to his category. But there’s not a word one way or the other about today’s Cuba, Venezuela, or any of the many unfree regimes in sub-Saharan Africa. The only present-day regime that’s explicitly excluded is North Korea. This lack of ...
No man has been more harshly judged than Machiavelli, especially in the two centuries following his death. But he has since found many able champions and the tide has turned. The prince has been termed a manual for tyrants, the effect of which has been most harmful. But were Machiavelli's...