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Everything @AgnesCallard says in this podcast is interesting. Like here she is just casually reversing the normal story of what politics is for, and what society is designed to teach us. No big deal. https://t.co/IA4s4po7yQ... See more
The Straussian Moment
gwern.netA common refrain in their fights was whether Arnold, who became an assistant professor in 2021, should aspire to more. Agnes felt that he could write an extraordinary book about Aristotle, but he was content to read the texts and share his interpretations with his students. “Arnold fundamentally sees life as, like, you’re supposed to find a place o
... See moreRachel Aviv • Agnes Callard’s Marriage of the Minds | The New Yorker
Fukuyama was so prescient. In a society with strong rights and material comfort, but light on demanding shared purposes and some degree of sacrifice, thymotic energies go searching. Some quiet into bourgeois hedonism; other will seek “metaphorical wars” and eventually real ones. https://t.co/PfwPxzto4Z
These two chapters on Socratic politics contain three counterintuitive assertions about politics. First, you cannot fight injustice.
Agnes Callard • Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.