Harvey Mansfield on Locke, Aristotle, and the Spirit of Liberalism
Conversations with Bill Kristol
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The Philosophy of Equality and Inequality
There are two ways of looking at the common good and therefore two parties. One would be democratic, in which we are all looking at each other as equals. The other would be oligarchic or aristocratic,. In these layers are strata, strata, that radiate from the best example. All things could be considered bodily, and that's for their matter. So materialism would be the worked out philosophy of a political position of democracy. We're all, the whole universe is equal in its equally body or matter of some kind.
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