Conversations in a Crisis: Part III: Reforming Our Political Imaginaries (with Rev Benjamin Miller)
Alastair's Adversaria
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What Is Common Life?
Government can serve as a coordinating and directing agency for those sorts of activities. We don't have the freedom to act together if we are all purely individuals. There's a freedom of agency, as you're pointing out, that that comes through being ruled,. Being guided, and having someone, as you said, who can act in our for us, but in our place. I've tried to think about maybe illustrations even am so i've told my children many times, thinking of family life as a common life is not so much like eating a pitza. It's more like a a swimming pool party. And just trying to help get that that imaginative space framed out, if that makes
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