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Tag: cultural decline

August 30, 2022
Escaping the Net: How Our Media Environment Poisons the Life of the Mind

Escaping the Net: How Our Media Environment Poisons the Life of the Mind

“But my eyes are toward you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless! Keep me from the trap that they have set laid for me and from the snares of evildoers! Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass safely” (Psalm 141:8-10 ESV). Hegel, the famous …

September 29, 2021
Plato’s Republic Book VIII: On the Fall of Civilizations

Plato’s Republic Book VIII: On the Fall of Civilizations

In this essay, I explore Book 8 of The Republic and set forth Plato’s theory of cultural decline. In Book 8 of The Republic, Plato returns to the theme of how his ideal city degenerates into various lesser forms of government: Philosophical aristocracy falling to timocracy, timocracy to oligarchy, oligarchy to democracy, and finally democracy …

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