
Robert Kaplan: The Tragic Mind
The Book Club
Is It a Competition Between Two Goods?
I'm interested in the, I mean, on one level, it seems like what you're saying is, don't expect everything to go right. How do you understand fate in a post Greek world? To deal with arrogance as I write in the book arrogance is a form of idiocy. And then there's the question of fate. You know, fate is what happens in ways that we can explain it indicates a higher force at work but because we cannot know that higher force, and we cannot know when and how it will intervene. We have to go on struggling as if there was no fate. It is not that there is no fate is that we don't know how and when it
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