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Many philosophers have discussed friendship; what is it really? How do we understand the implications, the profilation, the magnitude and the dangers of friendship? One of my favourites is Michel de Montaigne, who writes in his essays about a friend that had qualities superior to any other I have heard about. But Aristotle reminds us, […]
The sturdy and healthy body of the english is long forgotten, the virtues of the free fighting men is but a distant memory in ancient books. But the ideals are still there, and a few of the brave hold on to them as they march in the streets of London. The english are betrayed by […]
To understand the way of the future, one has to understand the connection between spirit and democracy, or rather the connection forged by the Mesopotamians and the great Babylonians, among others. These quintessential first true cities of the West were much more than we understand today, there are traces of understanding in the old testament, […]
America has its vices and its virtues, but there is no doubt, that the founding fathers made a tremendous job in creating the constitution. They created a system that they wanted to last, it did so for hundreds of years, but the system that they made is now falling apart, as all others systems based […]
