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AI and Classics: the Past and Future
AI and Classics. A most bizarre combination. One from ages past and the other only in its infancy. But it is the unexpected combination of AI with Classics that will bring antiquity into the future. The Herculaneum Papyri are the only collection of books from antiquity that has survived in its entirety. Preserved by the…
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St. Augustine and Government
Saint Augustine was a devout Christian philosopher who lived more or less during the final stages of the decline of the Western Roman Empire (4th and 5th century A.D.). Though he does count as an ancient philosopher, he is more of a bridge between the older, classical philosophers and medieval philosophers than anything else. I…
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Should Property Serve the Common Good?
For this post, I would like to share an interesting take on the institution of property I read recently. Thomas Aquinas, one of Western philosophy’s most influential writers, put forth the essential idea that divine law and natural law aim at the common good. Property depends on said law to exist; therefore property must also…