Sublime

Cette ontologie dite par le roman est politique. Si la peste gît en nous, la politique devient affaire de nature humaine, de psychologie, d'anthropologie et non d'économie, d'histoire ou des disciplines qui arrivent après, longtemps après. Si le mal existe, il n'est pas le produit de circonstances extérieures sur lesquelles on pourrait agir pour le

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By these very books, many uneducated and even crude fellow citizens of his became devoted to letters. ALBERTI He counted them as brothers, and all others eager for learning, and whatever he came to know, he voluntarily communicated to them. ALBERTI He turned over those discoveries of his which were worthy and important to any who could use them.

Aristocracies are infinitely more expert in the science of legislation than democracies ever can be. They are possessed of a self-control which protects them from the errors of temporary excitement, and they form lasting designs which they mature with the assistance of favorable opportunities. Aristocratic government proceeds with the dexterity of

not because he is inferior to the authorities which conduct it, or that he is less capable than his neighbor of governing himself, but because he acknowledges the utility of an association with his fellow-men, and because he knows that no such association can exist without a regulating force.

Aristotle considers ethics a branch of politics, and it is not surprising, after his praise of pride, to find that he considers monarchy the best form of government, and aristocracy the next best.

So, Professor Quispel, should we meet again under the thick trees, I’d say Platonism and democracy can get along with each other very nicely. Both are based on soul. Both are similarly concerned with how the soul can be in the world and in the best manner fulfilled. To focus on the best and on fulfillment does not force elitism. Nor does it abandon

Ne vivant en sédentaire dans aucun pays, citoyen de tous, ce premier Européen, ce premier cosmopolite conscient ne reconnaissait aucune prépondérance d'une nation sur une autre, et comme il s'était imposé de ne juger les peuples que d'après leurs esprits les plus nobles et les plus cultivés, d'après leur élite, tous lui semblaient également dignes