Riding The Tiger
Chad CrowleyDelving deep into history, philosophy, and life in the Kali Yuga.
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On Political Duty
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
— Plato, The Republic
The quotation above is drawn from The Republic, Book I, 347c–e.
Here Plato has Socrates set fo...
Carl Schmitt and the Political
In recent years, Carl Schmitt’s concept of “the political” has attracted increasing attention as the failures of liberal “politics” have become more difficult to ignore amid the growing instability of the Western world.
The political must,...
The Slave on the Throne
“Some men are by nature free, and others slaves.”
— Aristotle, Politics, Book I
In the Politics, one of the monumental works of Western political thought, Aristotle, the sage of Stagira, offers the world’s first systematic philosophical a...
The City and the Tyrant
“The guard of a tyrant is composed of foreigners; he trusts them rather than citizens, for the latter are his enemies, while the former offer no rivalry.”
— Aristotle, Politics
The passage above is paraphrased from Book V of Aristotle’s P...
When Inferior Men Rule
“That the inferior should be ruled is a law of nature.”
— Xenophon, Cyropaedia
Before the usual bevy of shallow literalists rushes in to flatten Xenophon’s words into the facile syllogism that, if the inferior are naturally ruled, th...
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