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Aristotle, Constant, and the Distribution of Time

Political Theory 101

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The Politics of Leisure and the Virtue of the Commercial Society

In ancient greece, the aristocrats not only had leisure and did politics, they also did a lot of war fighting. And so for adam smith, there's this o your whole book, theory of moral sentiments, which is all about preserving commercial society. If we don't, it's going to get really grim," he says.

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