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Stranger: I mean that really true and assured opinion about honor, justice, goodness and their opposites is divine, and when it arises in men’s souls, it arises in a godlike race. – STATESMAN (Plato 360 BC) Fostering Innovation [4:20] {7A} The Air, the Water,...
Stranger: But the art which holds sway over them all and watches over the laws and all things in the state, weaving them all most perfectly together, we may, I think, by giving to its function a designation which indicates its...
Stranger: Then if we bisected intellectual science as a whole and called one part the commanding and the other the judging part, might we say we had made fitting division? – STATESMAN (Plato 360 BC) Strength in Numbers [01:50] Selective Depopulation...
Stranger: People nowadays are likely to take into consideration enforced subjection and voluntary obedience, poverty and wealth, law and lawlessness as they occur in governments, and so they divide two of the forms we mentioned, giving to the two aspects...
Stranger: Can we wonder, then, that our soul, whose nature involves it in the same uncertainty about the letters or elements of all things, is sometimes in some cases firmly grounded in the truth about every detail, and again in...
Stranger: Apparently, then, we must expect a complete description of the statesman only when we have defined the manner of his rule over the state. – STATESMAN (Plato 360 BC) This is the second episode in the eight part series Framing 2020....
Framing 2020 is a briefing for independent voters. It advances the principles of statesmanship over those of partisan politics. It advocates for authentic democracy and focuses on unpacking many of the issues that tend to be oversimplified or ignored by...
