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Do Money and Material Gain Taint Thought, or Validity of Opinion? On Aristotle’s Ethics, Bk. 2 Chp. 7

As always, any Aristotle quoted or cited comes from Joe Sachs’ version of the Ethics. If you are interested in other things I’ve written on Aristotle, or the discussions preceding this one, see the index above. Josh asked very directly, and very nicely, if money taints opinion. It would seem “selling out” is bad because

A Short Note On One Response to Mansfield’s Jefferson Lecture

Nasty, brutish, and thankfully very short I don’t want to spend time railing against the above. I just think it’s stupid. No one is allowed to say that that political life is defined by “honor and respect” because to do so would be to malign all the greater things that bestow honor or constitute respect.

Is Politics Reducible to Rhetoric?

The following is only a summary (with some purposely loaded comments) of an aspect of Leo Strauss’ essay “On Aristotle’s Politics,” found in The City and Man, pg. 17-24 Machiavelli held that it was possible for tyrannical power to come about from a “deep knowledge of political things.” The conclusion of the essay on Macbeth