Otherwise_Carob_4057 t1_iryp3t0 wrote on October 12, 2022 at 12:48 AM

Reply to comment by ShalmaneserIII 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

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 on October 12, 2022 at 1:13 AM

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 on October 12, 2022 at 4:13 AM

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?