A reader raised this question, though in a rather different tone.
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Is political theory nothing more than poetry?
The poetry of A D Hope is worth reading.
Category: Theory
Let’s talk canon!
Tarah asks, “I was wondering what qualified a political theorist as being one that is sufficiently noteworthy for you to write about?”
The canon of political theory.
I thought it was time to take stock.
One of my ambitions as a political theorist is to publish on each theorist in the canon of political theory.
Euthyphro, piety, logic, and Socrates
A philosophic game.
Have fun with this game.
I am told that Don Baker has put the Euthrypro Dialog1 on line a:
http://donbarker.com/dialog1/
The canon of political theory.
I thought it was time to take stock.
One of my ambitions as a political theorist is to publish on each theorist in the canon of political theory.
Chapter Sixteen: The End and the Beginning.
These books are the X-Files.
Plato and the philosopher’s phone: the essay.
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Chapter Fifteen: Aristotle the kitten and slavery.
A very simple exposition of Aristotle on happiness is Jean Vanier, A Guide to the Good Life: Happiness, Aristotle for the New Century (2001).
What shall we do with all our leisure? Keep busy!
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Jackson in a hat!
The sky did fall. It is a risk revealing this hat. It is probably an offence to be in possession of a fire warden’s hat when not a fire warden!
A theorist and nothing but.
Chapter Fourteen: Aristotle today.
And you thought you knew Aristotle!
Aristotle applied readily today.
Chapter Thirteen: Big Aristotle.
The resemblance that lucky guy Plummer bears to me is uncanny isn’t it?
Let’s start with Big Aristotle.