ARISTOTLE WUZ A COMMIE
It's true. You all know it is. He preaches about how guys are all totally awesome, and how we're naturally political and come together as groups, and that the whole is necessity prior to the part. Screw the individual -- the group comes before, bizsnatch.
It's like, so early Communist.
I like Locke better. Because Locke was a realist who acknowledged that men were stupid, but they still had an ability to make governments that animals couldn't. He didn't put opposable thumbs in his argument, but hey -- we can't always point to our awesome digits as the reason we're cooler than everything else.
Hobbes? Entertaining in the sense that men are inherently dumb and incompetent and violent. Sometimes I find myself agreeing with him.
Paine? Also entertaining. I really want to call him the wise-ass of the 1700's. His style of writing is both quietly sardonic yet true at the same time. It's classy sarcasm and smart-assness.
Berlin? Equality is stupid and can't exist. Slaps Aristotle right in the face.
Mills? Meh. Mills is boring. Yay for freedom and all that hullabaloo.
Toqueville is amusing because he's French. If that doesn't say anything, I don't know what will. He's an interesting bird; he admires parts of the American society but also condemns it and -- in this same breath -- is very quick to cover his ass. A nice diplomat, if I say so myself.
I AM STUDYING FOR A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY TEST TOMORROW -- CAN'T YOU TELL?!?
IN OTHER NEWS >>>>>>PSAT scores make me sad inside. Math is my internal demon.
It's like, so early Communist.
I like Locke better. Because Locke was a realist who acknowledged that men were stupid, but they still had an ability to make governments that animals couldn't. He didn't put opposable thumbs in his argument, but hey -- we can't always point to our awesome digits as the reason we're cooler than everything else.
Hobbes? Entertaining in the sense that men are inherently dumb and incompetent and violent. Sometimes I find myself agreeing with him.
Paine? Also entertaining. I really want to call him the wise-ass of the 1700's. His style of writing is both quietly sardonic yet true at the same time. It's classy sarcasm and smart-assness.
Berlin? Equality is stupid and can't exist. Slaps Aristotle right in the face.
Mills? Meh. Mills is boring. Yay for freedom and all that hullabaloo.
Toqueville is amusing because he's French. If that doesn't say anything, I don't know what will. He's an interesting bird; he admires parts of the American society but also condemns it and -- in this same breath -- is very quick to cover his ass. A nice diplomat, if I say so myself.
I AM STUDYING FOR A POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY TEST TOMORROW -- CAN'T YOU TELL?!?
IN OTHER NEWS >>>>>>PSAT scores make me sad inside. Math is my internal demon.