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Devin Baker • 8 cards
‘A life without temporal boundaries,’ writes the philosopher Samuel Scheffler, ‘would be no more a life than a circle without a circumference would be a circle.’
Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
Friedrich Hayek, who has become an iconic figure among today’s conservatives, was a strong proponent of the idea. In his three-volume work Law, Legislation and Liberty, published between 1973 and 1979, Hayek suggested that a guaranteed income would be a legitimate government policy designed to provide insurance against adversity, and that the need
... See moreMartin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
En revanche, l’ordre est un territoire connu. C’est la hiérarchie des lieux, des postes et de l’autorité. C’est la structure de la société. La structure biologique aussi, particulièrement lorsque celle-ci est adaptée à la structure sociale. L’ordre, c’est sa tribu, sa religion, son foyer, sa maison familiale et son pays.
Jordan B. Peterson • 12 règles pour une vie (French Edition)
Partiality to loved ones is justified because it is an essential ingredient in one of the highest of human goods.”
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
THE SENATE HAD WON AGAIN. The citadel of the South, the dam against which so many liberal tides had broken in vain, was still standing, as impenetrable as ever. And it was standing thanks in substantial part to its Majority Leader. For years, the South had had a formidable general in Richard Russell. In 1956, as in 1955 and 1954 and 1953, it had
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
Philosophy
Leaders, if they are wise, think about the impact of their decisions many years from now.
Jonathan Sacks • Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible (Covenant & Conversation Book 8)
When we talk about justice today, we almost always find ourselves talking about rights we believe are entrenched in nature and have been enshrined in our founding documents. This language reflects a liberal conception of human action and interaction, casting us as rational agents who reach agreements with one another through calculation and
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