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Leviathan: The Darkest Work Of Political Philosophy Ever Written (Part 1) (opens the original)
Deadwood: the Hobbesian hell. (opens the original)
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Do you remember the television series Deadwood? I don’t know whether it is the greatest television series ever made, but there is none better.Think Shakespeare meets Clint Eastwood and you get Ian McShane. Indeed, the English actor performed in Shakespearean theatre.His turn as Al Swearengen in Deadwood took the western genre to new heights. Deadwood is brutal; it is unrelenting. Welcome to hell. Swearengen may be the devil; he may also be a demented Christ.Anyway, I was thinking of Deadwood thi
The Republic - Plato (opens the original)
How Plato would have loved Oasis. (opens the original)
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And after all, you’re my wonderwall.Maybe not a lyric one would associate with Plato, I’m not sure that Noel Gallagher has ever read Ancient Greek philosophy (though it would not surprise me if he has), but the two writers three thousand years apart share the same vision of the world.Plato believed that music was the language of the soul. Music was the foundation of a healthy society. In his book The Republic, Plato says that music is the way to virtue and to love.Music and gymnastics
Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin (opens the original)
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