I’m not an economist, but I don’t think this is very complicated.
Archive for January, 2008
What is Real?
January 17th, 2008
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Just a quick post on Plato’s Republic. Toward the end of the book Plato describes the life which is most satisfying as one in which an object (or a person) is satisfied by real things. For Plato, the most real things are the intelligible mental conceptions of things and therefore the most satisfying life is [...]
Concerns regarding Governmental Secrecy
January 3rd, 2008
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Often conservatives (and hawkish liberals like Hillary and Biden and Lieberman) justify the need for secrecy in foreign policy. The following is a great answer to that justification from 17th century Jewish philosopher Baruch de Espinoza (better known as Spinoza).
