Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Part X

My metaphysic continues to progress. Yesterday I handed in Part X, on public values. This was a very difficult chapter, in view of the need to distil insights from a vast and complex field, to integrate them with previous chapters, and to retain a simple, buoyant style. Inevitably, if this page isn't a draft now, it will become a draft in future. A central point of Part X is that democracy, for all its merits, is often deeply destructive to society. It has a perturbing record on poverty, for instance.

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