Ray Wu's Blog

A good citizen follows the constitution; a good person has high moral value citizens who are property owning (common definition of citizenship in the Western world) -> only people who have property can vote Owning property becomes one of Aristotle’s conditions for participating in politics Mentions and assesses hundreds of constitutions across the Greek world […]

Plato’s stance against excess, and belief in moderation as arete (virtue) is interesting. Because in the class & virtue system of his Kallipolis Class function (ergon) virtue (arete) rulers rule wisdom guardians guard courage producers produce moderation All the virtues of the other social classes aside from the producers point towards the end of the spectrum. […]

Casual Sequence from Uzbekistan

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