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"It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state..." That was Milton Friedman's view.

And don't forget Anaximenes and Anaximander!

The culture in multiculturalism seems to boil down to restaurant and pop (i.e industrial) culture choices. If it is anything beyond that, it is utilitarianism: the rule of numbers,…

if any of this remains it will not be me from "Hoelderlin at the River"/The Vixen

"Call me Ishmael"?

Yamada Taichi

Ἄρρητον means "what is not to be spoken". I'd say the maxim is purposely ambiguous rather than baffling. It could mean "shameful", "horrible", or "sacred".

In high school I thought Hamlet was a comedy. All the characters seemed deluded to the point of foolishness. The ending is a perfect comedy of errors. My feeling was good riddance!…

Aristotle's ethical treatises. Also, his Rhetoric.

"Kirk and Raven" is the standard textbook in English. Gives and discusses the principal testimonia and fragments in the original Greek (or Latin) with English translations. As it h…