For every sad mind there is an honest shoulder to rest on. You just have to find it in the right place.
—Me, getting through a tough day.
My grandchild, coming from even a greater team this year <3
If Zeus was afraid that fire would give humans too much power, Hebrew’s myth said that God feared language for the same reason.
—Daniel Everett
AMUNC training 4.0 <3
It takes two to philosophize, and philosophy is a shared search for truth.
—Because discussion, argument, and debate are crucial to philosophy for everything that is said must lie open to question and criticism.
PLATO ON IR
In another of his books, the Laws, Plato puts forward an interesting proposition concerning international relations. He argues that a treaty arrangement between sovereign states is more stable if three states are involved rather than a bilateral agreement between any two of them. A bilateral agreement is likely to be broken whenever one of the parties considers itself to be more powerful than the other; but when there are three states involved, any one of them would be faced by the combined power of the other two if it should break the treaty. The balance of power doctrine in international relations, which was widely held by modern political scientists until quite recently, and adopted in practice by many states as the way to prevent war, can be traced back to this Platonic argument. But there is no evidence that he held the view that a similar arrangement could be used in the internal government of a state. As we have seen, the guardians of Plato’s ideal state are to possess unlimited power and, in his view, it would be absurd to constrain them.
Something About Us
Daft Punk
(Or, as Ipeh put it, a hipster way of feeling all romantic.)
It might not be the right time
I might not be the right one
But there’s something about us I want to say
Cause there’s something between us anyway
I might not be the right one
It might not be the right time
But there’s something about us I’ve got to do
Some kind of secret I will share with you
I need you more than anything in my life
I want you more than anything in my life
I’ll miss you more than anyone in my life
I love you more than anyone in my life
…A lover of ideas like you would want to share the beauty in their complexity, rather than solve problems under one of the given, simplified paradigms.
—How can someone explain your being better than yourself?
