![]() ![]() It is important to note that in Aristotle’s time, states were comparatively smaller than they are today. Tyranny is a kind of monarchy which has in view the interest of the monarch only oligarchy has in view the interest of the wealthy democracy, of the needy: none of them the common good of all. The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether to the one, or the few, or of the many, are perversions. ![]() Those in the first row he referred to as “true forms” of government, while those in the second row were the “defective and perverted forms” of the first three. ![]() Forms of GovernmentĪristotle argued that there were six general ways in which societies could be organized under political rule, depending on who ruled, and for whom they ruled. His text Politics is an exploration of different types of state organizations and tries to describe the state which will ultimately lead to the most fulfilled citizens. The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that questions of the state, how it should be organized, and how it should pursue its ends, were fundamental to the achievement of happiness. We’ve written before about why Plato matters. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom, love for the God of the Dead grows - a love that is both captivating and forbidden. The bet does more than expose Persephone's failure as a goddess, however. Clair 35-page comprehensive study guide Chapter-by-chapter summaries and multiple sections of expert analysis Featured in our Valentines Day. After her encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead, and his terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. But nothing has ever intrigued him as much as the goddess offering him a bargain he can't resist. Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favourite bets are rumoured to be impossible. 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Someone in my little circle of forty-year-olds was bound to get a letter from the big C. My curve was ramping up, and now every big gathering of friends had at least one knot of somber people standing together and remembering someone who went too early. ![]() It hadn't started as a funeral suit, but once I'd worn it to three funerals in a row, I couldn't wear it anywhere else without feeling an unnamable and free-floating sorrow. By the time I was thirty-five, I had an actual funeral suit I kept in a dry-cleaning bag in the closet. My social mortality curve was a perfectly formed standard distribution-a few sparse and rare deaths before I was ten, slightly more through my teens, and then more in my twenties. I'm a forty-year-old, middle-class Angeleno. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2014, Newton’s fascination with her own genealogy fueled a magazine article she published in Harper’s magazine about America’s ancestry craze. 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I figured it would be depressing and I couldn’t imagine how a story of people living in the dump was going to be much of a story to tell. ![]() I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book. The Rent Collector is a story of hope, of one woman’s journey to save her son and another woman’s chance at redemption. Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the bad-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money–a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I believe it’s a futile exercise to discuss the plot of the book because it isn’t the main point. This story is mainly about the author’s quest to understand his mother, Imelda (Em), and her mental illness and an attempt to describe how the rest of them, including his sister Susan and his father Augustine (a.k.a. The title ‘Em and the big Hoom’ doesn’t make sense unless you start the book, or someone explains it to you. Depression means nothing more than the blues, commercially packaged angst, a hole in the ground until you find its black weight settled inside your mother’s chest, disrupting her breathing, leaching her days, and yours, of color and the nights of rest.” “Love is a hollow word which seems at home in song lyrics and greeting cards until you fall in love and discover it’s disconcerting power. There were many passages that made me stop and marvel at how effortlessly the text read but yet delivered quite a blow. Jerry Pinto has a brilliant writing style throughout this book. And when the narrator had similar thoughts and called himself out, I couldn’t not feel as if he wasn’t talking to me, poking my conscious. I’ve had my fair share of such instances. Perhaps knowingly telling yourself a comforting lie. Have you ever had a thought that you felt incredibly guilty for having? Perhaps wishing ill of someone for your own selfish reasons. ![]() |