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Michal Naka • 1 card
People are not monads. A real, live human self is always already partial to certain, select others. Morality needs to take this essential fact about human selfhood into account rather than pretend to override it.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
... See moreThe aspect of Scott Buchanan’s life to which this memoir relates began, for me at least, with a college lecture he gave in October of 1944.
The lecture was a flight of high speculative fancy in which he tried to imagine the features of a Republic of Learning joined with a political republic.
If man is a political animal, his virtues compromised and
Philosophy
LEO • 1 card
Several years ago the students of Stanford voted him the best teacher on the faculty, which must have enraged his colleagues because you cannot maintain proper status in an American university without cultivated mediocrity. You must be academically “sound,” which is to be preposterously and phenomenally dull. Once I had a professor who was teaching
... See moreAlan Watts • In My Own Way: An Autobiography
The Use of Knowledge in Society
Friedrich Hayek's essay explores the decentralized nature of knowledge in society, emphasizing the importance of the price system in coordinating individual decisions effectively, highlighting challenges of central planning.
cato.orgWe were to read Thomas Hobbes in the first seminar I attended. Strauss began without further ado to say that we would read only the first two parts of the Leviathan, that this was "disgraceful" but that we would have our hands full doing justice to even that much. After that, he turned unceremoniously to some introductory remarks.
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first, covering every page of reading listed in a course syllabus is rarely necessary.
Cal Newport • How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students
The individual’s incentives must be aligned with the group’s goals.To