Philosophy more generally can help us cultivate critical inquiry, questioning norms, and challenging opinion in ways that will enable humans to acknowledge their differences, resolve their disputes, and argue for the best aspects of their cultural and political community.
Thursday, 28 November 2013
HOW ABOUT TYRANNY?
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” (C.S. Lewis)
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