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"I'm really curious how the two correlate for everyone. I fall into camp 3 for both.
Me too. But this is one of those areas where liberalism splits with progressivism. To the extent that this is a useful distinction, progressives tend to go with..." [
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"“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”
-Aeschylus (via Robert F. Kennedy)..." [
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"...but do you really feel that the story of Oedipus was a moral tale?
Of course it is. Oedipus makes no sense otherwise; his actions are inexplicable. That's not to say that Sophocles gives us an answer. There's a sense in which Oedipus is..." [
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"Yeah, this question is a mess. Suffice it to say that there are a lot of issues raised by your question. This, for example, is fallacious:
Obviously our sense of morality has changed through out history, so what reason is there to believe that..." [
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"ontic's advice is good re: problems approaches, which are much more popular now (that's how I've done my degree). If you want to go for a more historical route, start with the following. For Greece, read Plato and Aristotle. You can buy Plato's..." [
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