Ep. 108: Lindy Law and the Slippery Slope
Young Heretics
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The Laws of the Ancient World
Ancient laws which have come down to us are quite absurd. Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. A change in a law is a very different thing from a change in an art. For the law has no power to command obedience, except that of habit, which can only be given by time. So that a readiness to change from old to new laws enfeebles the power of the law. But iam going to stop reading aristotle there. I think he lays out here two really excellent principles,. because he both acknowledges that change is necessary and lays down a fundamental conservative idea: freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals
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