Otherwise_Carob_4057 t1_irwgsy2 wrote
Reply to comment by epochemagazine in The Democratic Importance of William James. An essay about how pragmatism can serve both as a critical tool to evaluate today's politics and as a guide for our own politization by epochemagazine
Too be fair we literally couldn’t exist without each other, and yet are repelled by each other.
ShalmaneserIII t1_irxwmh3 wrote
You start to see the point of why Socrates and others debate how a society should operate- in no small part, to produce citizens who are not repugnant nor deserving of scorn from others.
It's not inconceivable that you could look around yourself in a crowd and go "these are good people- I am glad to be among them."
Otherwise_Carob_4057 t1_iryp3t0 wrote
My ethics professor wrote his thesis on the theory that Socrates wanted a society in which citizens were the best possible members of society because they were well educated. That would be sweet but I think he also wanted schooling to last all the way to age 30.
PuerhRichard t1_irysco9 wrote
Well only do many people were citizens of Rome originally to my understanding. Not sure how it was in Greece at the time. I assume he was in Athens.
ShalmaneserIII t1_irzdm85 wrote
Not the worst idea. If you consider how much education it takes to be a trained doctor in charge of a few lives, how much harder is it to be making decisions for all the lives in your polity?
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