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Democracy: (Greek) Demos - the people, Kratos - ruled by. fundamentally a…
Democracy: (Greek) Demos - the people, Kratos - ruled by. fundamentally a mode of collective decision-making characterized by an egalitarian distribution of political power.
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Democracy depends upon high levels of trust and civic conduct - where we see each as people with whose hands we can commit our common future.
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In contemporary Western democracies, democracy is a tightrope between loss and hope—held steady by virtues that can still move us toward the best possible future.
John Dewey regarded optimism as a commitment to the idea that ‘if I fall backwards, there is a citizen who will be there to catch me’. Optimism is a decision to be cheerful at a moment when I might be most tempted to be distrustful.
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The central concept of democracy is at one point or another, we are one another’s teachers.
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There are needs of the soul which are things that are not touched by material concerns. But maybe facilitated by secure material conditions and by which can be addressed by democratic politics.
such a need is
Friendship: is a type of platonic love between two people who authentically multiply the joys and divide the sorrows of the other
Aristotle describe a true friend as a someone who will tell you when you falter because they care for your soul
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genuine, lasting, virtuous friendship is describe in popular media as being our found
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By losing the language in which we describe evil, we lose the preciousness of censuring something as evil, which is designed to protect the irreplaceability of members of a plural human community.
As Immanuel Kant warns in his notion of radical evil, there exists within humanity a perplexing readiness to act against what is most innately precious to us. Albert Camus extends this insight, observing that such moral betrayal is often facilitated by the internal corruption of language itself—when we lose the shared moral vocabulary that allows us to speak to one another in the language of humanity.
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The addiction to the virality of social media's content renders us - users - licking on its dopamine lollipop. Where
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The moment you designate a category of people evil, then you can inflict upon them whatever you wish - they are off the table of human cooperation or contemplation. At extreme evils, there is a kind of anesthetizing of one’s moral substance at that point, that permits one to no longer see this human being as that which is worthy of the fundamental considerations. Rather one sees them as that which can be mined as a resource.
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Shame operates within a hierarchy such as a parent telling their child that they should be ashamed, the child doesn’t worry about their parent abandoning them. The imposition of shame operates as a way in which that child can grow more fully into the emotional and moral life of the family. The punishment is trying to lead the person back into the folds of the full life of the community.
When we survey the world and see something we don’t like, it is an opportunity to survey ourselves and see our own vices. That the world is a manifestation of our own vices - of our shortcomings.
Despair is two faced- it can approach mourning but it can also give into the vice of ‘acedia’ (Greek: literally without care or slothfulness) - the inability to get oneself up or into action.
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threat to democracy because ceo's of tech megapoolies reside in a democracy where we cannot vote them out as they are not within our - the citizens - domain of power.
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Protecting individual agency matters; but agency without recognition curdles into solipsistic tendencies
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