Matthew Stewart, “The Epicurean Republic” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Ideas Roadshow Podcast
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Is There a Revolutin in the World?
There's a very deep and coherent explanation for why those things are there. And that explanation not only brings all those ideas together, but it grounds them in an explanation of the way the world works. So i guess my points of vew go back to that original historical understanding. Yes, you could say it's irrelevant, because it's just what a bunch of dead people thought, and it doesn't matter. But i think it's illuminating because it explains how these things really fit together,. And thats why ithingis ar like the most interesting american reltion, the revolutin. They string together these things that we now cand say we like, then we accept them on faith
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