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Cunegonde spying Pangloss giving a lesson in “experimental physics” to her mother’s pretty chambermaid. (Voltaire - Candide) https://t.co/uNcCLq0SfA

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Really liked Joyland by Stephen King. Young guy does summer job at a boardwalk amusement park 🏖🎢 It’s got everything! Quarter life crisis Murder mystery Clairvoyant kids with terminal illnesses https://t.co/CyDtJGxcs7

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My homework prompts this summer show that Aristotle can be taught in high school or younger: "Aristotle concludes the Nicomachean Ethics with a description of the contemplative life as superior to all partial pursuits (targets that are held up as the 'one thing needful') because

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Aporia is not a state Plato endorsed. Its opposite, Poros (expedience), is the father of Eros in the Symposium. It’s the spirit of Odysseus: resourceful—not helpless, passive, or despairing. He observes the nature of things and figures out how to produce the desired effects. https://t.co/w7HxGDKayh

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The political art as understood by Aristotle, which is to say, how he understands the function of Nicomachean Ethics text itself. https://t.co/rqWVhLppxU

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In the Poetics, Aristotle wrote that there are authorities overlooking poetry for the good of the audience. This is irony: Aristotle is the authority. He is the author of the author-itative guide to poetry, in which he strove to moderate the inclination to fan the passions.

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