"The essence of any community is a mutual recognition that as a collective we all share a common history, wants, and concerns; that you recognize in your neighbor a bond which transcends the visibly obvious, that he lives in close proximity to you."

Written and Narrated by Joshua Noyer

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Hosts: Eliot Girardi, Johns Savage

Participant: Joshua Noyer

"For our purposes, the community is a being that attempts to accomplish something in time and through the deeds of its members. These deeds belong to the life which each member regards as, in ideal, his own."

Written by Josiah Royce

Narrated by Joshua Noyer

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“Pp. 60-67.” The Problem of Christianity Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston, and at Manchester College, Oxford Vol II, by Josiah Royce, Macmillan, 1914. 

"The rule that time is needed for the formation of a conscious community is a rule which finds its extremely familiar analogy within the life of every individual human self. Each one of us knows that he just now, at this instant, cannot find more than a mere fragment of himself present. The self comes down to us from its own past. It needs and is a history. Each of us can see that his own idea of himself as this person is inseparably bound up with his view of his own former life, of the plans that he formed, of the fortunes that fashioned him, and of the accomplishments which in turn he has fashioned for himself. A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past."

Written by Josiah Royce

Narrated by Joshua Noyer

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“Pp. 35-53.” The Problem of Christianity Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston, and at Manchester College, Oxford Vol II, by Josiah Royce, Macmillan, 1914.

Host: Joshua Noyer

"We are apt to speak and act as if freedom were a negative term, as if it meant freedom from, instead of freedom to. And so, there is a great deal of mutual complacency, of easy-going live and let live, and a spineless tolerance of wrong that does not directly and obviously touch us as individuals."

Written by Charles Bakewell

Narrated by Joshua Noyer

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Bakewell, Charles M. “Novum Itinerarium MENTIS in Deum.” The Philosophical Review 25, no. 3 (1916): 255

"The idea that master and man, the so-called employer and employee, are in opposition to each other must disappear. They must learn that they belong to each other, that they must collaborate harmoniously in human society for their mutual good and for the good of the community as a whole."

Written by Egelbert Dollfuss

Narrated by Joshua Noyer

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Host Joshua Noyer - Joined by Eliot Girardi and John Savage

It is of great importance to recognise that the State cannot be identified with the Government, which is merely the organ through which the harmony of the various organisations included in the State is effected. “The State,” as Mr. Bosanquet says, “ includes the whole hierarchy of institutions by which life is determined, from the family to the trade, and from the trade to the Church and the University. It is the structure which gives life and meaning to the political whole.”

Watson, John. In The State in Peace and War, 202–12. Glasgow: J. Maclehose, 1919.

Written by John Watson

Narrated by Joshua Noyer

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"All this serves to show that in their hearts the people do not believe in democracy as it is understood today; they demand authority and leadership, and left to themselves they would not, if it were honest, think of questioning it. It is exploitation to which they object and rightly object, and they only challenge authority when it is too closely associated with exploitation. The people realize that under any system, democratic or otherwise, they must obey; and that democratic institutions do not mean government by the people any more than monarchy or aristocracy, but government by a caucus who exercise authority in the name of the people."

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Written by Arthur Penty

Narrated by Joshua Noyer

The American Review, December 1936, pp. 216-233