Yet he also showed that a person in charge of a nation can still be a philosopher and bring philosophical, ethical, practical concerns into some sort of balance. But was he successful? No. Wars with Parthians and Germans made him to callous and compromising at the end.
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At the end, he was seen someone like Obama, a goodnatured person but subsumed by a corrupt system. He should have listened to Socrates that the job of the philosopher is to be a gadfly, a corruptor for the good and not a general or a king.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @QueenOfTheWilis and
He didn't listen to him though, di he? I for one am happy he didn't listen. Are you going to listen to Socrates all your life?
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Replying to @bopvangnon @QueenOfTheWilis and
Socrates is the only badass punk philosopher that ever was or ever will be. Look at what he did through his students and his well-curated death, he shook the foundations of the world as we know it. No emperor managed to have such a long-enduring legacy.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @bopvangnon and
What matters is not the grand plan, but to initiate a sustained chain reaction.
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"This happens in such a way that not only does recovery become impossible, but in addition any corrective or restorative initiative is ineluctably turned into a military subversion: like a chemotherapy gone awry [...]"
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Replying to @lesoiseauxduml @NegarestaniReza and
Is that a Machinic Hadith tho?
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Do you think we are into anything other than algorithmically generated Hadith?
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @lesoiseauxduml and
Here is a good recap thereof aligning with some speculative jihadism, but, aren't hadiths already algorithmically generated given that we are singularity from the vantage point of two one and two celled organisms?https://pca.st/XPyl
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