People like simple ideas and are right to like them. Unfortunately, the simplicity they seek is only to be found in elementary things; and the world, society, and man are made up of insoluble problems, contrary principles, and conflicting forces. Organism means complication, and multiplicity means contradiction, opposition, independence.
(Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, The Theory of [...]
Consider: Min 40-156
Can you relate West’s interpretation of our “finite situation” with specifics from Stone’s work in Trial of Socrates .ix-117?
Viewing the rest of West’s thought stream, can you come up with questions that complicate your ideas of what philosophy and politics are?
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