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Journalist James Pogue on Political Principles and Cultivating Virtue | We All Must Go Into The Wilderness

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The State Can Teach Virtue

Northern ireland is the one that really sticks with me because, like, you had people who were very in their own mode of doing things. And i just, i don't know, imen i get so wishy washy about the stuff, because I'm writing a series on cardinal virtue. Just the irony that the state can teach virtue strikes me as preposterous. It almost always starts with the exact premise that y elucidated,. which is that the state has made us weak and hollow and not aggressive enough. But if that's true, then this new right is more close to that fashism than a lot of people are willing to talk about and admit.

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