Mollie Hemingway, Rupert Darwall, Paul Rahe, & Nic Rowan
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
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Making Decisions After Talking Things Out
In homer, when a decision has to be made, they call together the chiefs of the various armies. One of the figures who speaks is nestor, king of pylos and he's consulted for his wisdom. So the very idea of making decisions after talking things out is already there in homer's epics. Now, it then spreads from there. Eventually there's voting as well. And this practice presupposes something, something unspoken initially, but it comes to be spoken time and time again over 250 years and aristotle. That is that human speech logos is more or less adequate to human reality.
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