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Schmitt, who has only read political theology, reading liberal political theory: Getting a lot of 'political theology' vibes from this.

Perpetually waiting to be (non-disparagingly) rescued by process---our weird (new?) form of life.

I also like to imagine George Miller barging into an office at universal pictures "ok I need 90 million dollars, total creative control, a cast of dozens of the finest non-human actors, TOTAL CREATIVE CONTROL ..."

Exactly

The pig performs an act so Good that the street animals, having witnessed a moral miracle, begin to believe that there might be gains to solidarity and social cooperation ... I dare anyone not to weep.

i feel this way about babe: pig in the city, which, along with george miller's other work (mad max, mad max: fury road, furiosa: a mad max saga) is a classic of political theory in the social contract tradition

frankfurt school stuff is just clearly 85% right and the 15% that is wrong is really infuriating, but in that fury is a career's worth of philosophy fuel; fuel that habermas burned right up until the end, leaving imo enough and as good for others

really enjoyed this! i've found frankfurt school on instrumental reason and reification really productive to engage with. i think i was genuinely changed by habermas (partly because he alerted me to parts of the analytic! tradition id been neglecting) a lot to be gained from not being parochial

Ah sure. But that doesn't mean you should breed them like prize cattle. That was Plato's idea.

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What is the petty eugenics of meritocracy?

these two things probably bleed into each other, sadly. the difference is power i suppose.

Is Holly Brewer right about Locke? I don't want to lie to my students.

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it was ok because all the Theoremes of Morall doctrine had been sufficiently proved 320 years earlier

gotta pick the prior that's uniform over structure descriptions in the language that god spoke to adam and update on the total evidence since the beginning of time

carney realizes that it's possible to be on the wrong side of a gunboat and immediately reinvents the nonaligned movement but capitalistly

Maybe I am having inappropriate feelings but this really came across as an "I never thought the rules-based international leopards would eat *my* face" kind of speech

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Most important thing to remember when you wake up is to recite the mantra "this is the worst I'm going to feel today." Generalizes to the non-hungover case as well.

Also mentioned in the first lines of Book I: Niceratus, son of Nicias, murdered by the tyranny because they needed his money (see Sparshott 1957, "Plato and Thrasymachus"). Niceratus doesn't speak in the dialogue, so this is just a shout-out. Book I is basically a catalogue of martyrs.

Something I don't know what to make of: according to Debra Nails, Glaucon is not just the brother of Plato and the cousin (once removed) of Critias, the worst of the Thirty tyrants, but Critias' younger lover. Does Glaucon drop Critias when Critias becomes murderous?

For me, Thrasymachus' outburst reads differently in light of that context: it's the outraged conscience of the reader, or maybe of Plato himself, who knows that half the people in the dialogue will be murdered, either by the oligarchic tyranny or by the restored democracy.

Feel stupid for just learning this, but book I is set in the house of a wealthy metic family that (we are supposed to know) will be victims of an anti-immigrant pogrom during the reign of the thirty tyrants. Polemarchus is killed and expropriated by the junta and his brother Lysias barely escapes.

Thank you for this I teared up at the end.

"Philosophy will have conscience of tomorrow, commitment to the future, knowledge of hope, or it will have no more knowledge." - Ernst Bloch, 1954

I guess the markets reacted in a way that suggests that a lot of relevantly placed people think this is a good idea in a shallow cynical way.

This is obviously besides your point, but I don't think the OP is fair to Thrasymachus, who might be doing a subtle ideology critique. The Realpolitiker are people who actually hold the worst of the views that Thrasymachus might be advocating in book I.

Every generation has to pick up the fallen banner in the hereditarian/environmentalist wars.

Me too!