Showing posts with label Aristotle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aristotle. Show all posts
Monday, August 06, 2012

Mixed Constitutions vs. Mixed Economies (or, Ancient and Modern Liberalisms)

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(Attention conservation notice: Inspired by a student’s comment a while back, this has languished in my drafts folder. Contains speculative ...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Hills and Valleys in Greek Speculative History (Or, Prolegomena to a Sketch of an Anarchist History of Western Political Theory)

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(Warning: 2000 words or so on the place of “hills” and “valleys” in Greek political thought). As I mentioned in a previous post , reading S...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Changes small and large: Epistemic Arguments for Conservatism II

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One epistemic argument for conservatism (or rather, gradualism) goes more or less like this. We have grave epistemic limitations that preven...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

The Class Struggle in Classical Greece

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From Aristotle, Politics   V.1310a9-11 : at present in some oligarchies they [the oligarchs] swear "And I will be hostile to the peopl...
Friday, July 30, 2010

Polybius and the Dialectic of Forgetting (Or, Theoretical Models in the Classical World)

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(Warning: A very long footnote – 2,500 words - about Polybius, human moral psychology, and the use of “models” in the Classical World, writt...
Monday, July 12, 2010

Reason and Persons in Classical Greece

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In a post I wrote three years ago, before I abandoned this blog for the first time (in accordance with its name) I mentioned a passage in P...