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#31 - Moments II: Thucydides & The Thin Veneer of Civility
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English - July 10, 2019 15:00 - 5 minutes - 8.34 MB - ★★★★★ - 366 ratingsArts Education classicbooks greatbooks liberalarts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: #30 - How to Start Your Own Home Reading Group with Thad Hensley
Next Episode: #32 - Plato's Seventh Letter
In the second installment of the Moments miniseries, seminar leader Karl Schudt reflects on the capricious and tenuous nature of our current political environment. As Thucydides reminds us, extreme partisanship is nothing new: "reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal supporter... prudent hesitation specious cowardice." And where there is partisan rancor, violence and revolution is often not far behind.
If Thucydides was right, we should be worried.
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