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Lyceum Digest #23 (opens the original)
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Welcome to our Friday Digest, a bi-weekly email newsletter designed to showcase everything we have published on the Substack over the past couple weeks. Below you will find links to our most recent posts. Happy reading!<img alt="" class="
Aristotle on Three Ways to Tame Desire (opens the original)
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“Nor do human beings commit injustice only on account of the necessary things—for which Phaleas considers equality of property a remedy, so that no one will steal through being cold or hungry; they also do it for enjoyment and the satisfaction of desire. For if they have a desire beyond the necessary things, they will commit injustice in order to cure it—and not only for this reason, for they might desire merely the enjoyment that comes with pleasures unaccompanied by pains.“What remedy is there
There is No “Good” in Mastery and Slavery: A Close Reading of Aristotle’s Politics, Book I, Chapter 5 (opens the original)
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Brief Thoughts on the Means of Persuasion (opens the original)
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The Household and the Business of Living (opens the original)
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