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Sunday, December 22nd, 2019

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    12:23p
    As Leo Strauss used to tell his students, all political action is concerned with change or preservation. When it is concerned with change it is concerned with change for the better. When it is concerned with preservation it is concerned with preventing change for the worse. But the concepts of better and worse imply a concept of the good. Therefore, all political action is concerned with the good.

    Strausa lekcijas par Platona Menonu (1966):
    https://archive.org/details/PlatosMeno1119660503
    8:09p
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    Philosophy always seems to end in some kind of skepticism---ephectic (suspension of judgement), zetetic (engaged in seeking), aporetic (engaged in refutation)----so one might well wonder whether it is a waste of time for the average citizen, who, as Socrates discovered, dislikes being questioned and is always ready to persecute questioners. What is mind? Never matter. What is matter? Never mind. That is how Bertrand Russell's parents summed up all the questions of philosophy.

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