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Kings All The Way Down

New Polity

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Is There a Family in a Community?

I don't want people to imagine that I think a family exists in isolation. And then joins in and sort of like social contract. Yes, to illustrate the notion of elevation. So you, you, I mean, what, what Aristotle will say, and Thomas agrees with him just directly, is that friends, the sort of paradigm occupation of friends is conversation, they talk to each other. They discuss reality. Out of that, out of those conversations grows households and cities. We are initiated into a complex order, a complex, discursive, yes, truth, order. Right? As it becomes more truthful, more beautiful, more that the deeper the happiness that we can share within it

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