Don Enss
Chapter 29. Worlds
at War: Plato and Aristotle in the Violent Century.
1. What
did Popper do that he considered as important to saving the West as building
ships or manufacturing bombs?
2. What
was the singularly dangerous vision of history that Popper believed that Plato
passed on to posterity and why did he think that it was important?
3. What
reason did Herman give for Hayek’s conclusion that economists and politicians were
wrong about how markets work?
4. Werner
Sombart divided the world into “traders” and “heroes.” How did he define both?
Conclusion:
1. According
to Herman, what three events set the compass for the twenty-first century?
2. According
to Herman’s “distinguished economist,” Alex Pollock, of the conservative think
tank, American Enterprise Institute, what will happen, “because uncertainty
about the future is fundamental.”?
3.
According
to Herman, where is Plato’s actual cave that he used in his allegory and can
you still visit it today?
4.
Plato
became the godfather of what? And Aristotle became the spokesperson for what?
Chapter 20-22 A
Philosophy of Walking
1. Gros
describes people at the Tuileres as being in a permanent merry-go-round and
behind differences, they were all alike. According to Gros, what did the poet
mean by “they are all alike?”
2. One
of the three elements of strolling is the “crowd.” How has the common experience
changed over time?
3. What
does Benjamin say is a “fantasmagoria?”
4.
When does the floating feeling derived
from walking come?
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