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Book 2 of the Republic provides the framing and motivation for answering this question about justice, and introduces several of the important concepts he will rely on throughout the text.

Brought to by Dr. Jerry Green of the University of Central Oklahoma!

Plato’s Republic tries to answer this question: as he puts it, ‘Why should we be just rather than unjust?’ In an extended argument over several books of the Republic, Plato explores human psychology, art and its role in education, and the best form of government, among other topics.

Do you follow the rules if you can get away with breaking them? Why should we ultimately do what society tells us is the right thing to do?

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Thanks to Dr. Lorenzo Spagnesi of Trier University!

What can we know? We know many things about the world around us: whether it is raining outside, the result of last night’s game, or how vaccines work. But we want to know more. We will see how Kant’s philosophy offers a revolutionary approach to our deep thirst for knowledge

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must be conserved before it can be improved upon. In this piece, we examine Burke’s arguments, which draw on tradition, observable cause and effect, and a mix of moral and religious sentiments. Contrary to expectations, Burke insists that the principles of conservation and change are not opposed.

the rule of law, property, the family, and religion. Burke himself sought to defend these things, as embodied in the British Constitution, against the revolutionary spirit sparked in France. In his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke develops the idea of society as an inheritance that

Edmund Burke was an Irish-born British statesman and political philosopher who is best known as the father of modern conservatism. Developed in response to the French Revolution, Burke's conservatism aims to preserve and promote the existing (or traditional) institutions of society, including

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and body are constantly changing?

In this reading, we will examine one of history’s most influential answers: the psychological continuity theory of the Early Modern philosopher John Locke

not someone else. When we think justice is done in a criminal trial, we assume the person put into prison is the very same person as the person who committed the crime months or years earlier. But here is a mystery: how can one’s person remain the same over time when one’s mind

All our meaningful human interactions presuppose that persons persist across time. You assume the person you say “goodbye” to on the phone is the same person you said “hello” to earlier. When you plan for the future, you assume you’re making plans for your future self,

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Thank you to Dr. @edutmer.bsky.social of @culveracademies.bsky.social for contributing his expertise!

Governments all around the world call themselves ‘republics’. But what is a republic? The word comes from a Latin word, res publica, and, in its broadest sense, can be translated as ‘the people’s thing’. How did this Latin word make its way into the official names of 159 countries?