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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 1h

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 1h

They probably got all the Proust allusions, though.

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 1d

A European journalist was sacked for asking just one question:

“If the EU expects Russia to pay for the rebuild of Ukraine, shouldn’t Israel pay for the reconstruction of Gaza?”

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Journalist abruptly sacked for exposing EU’s double standards on Russia and Gaza | Janta Ka Reporter

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 21h

I didn’t see why he thought Democritus was more scientific in approach than Aristotle—rather than just, as it happens, luckily correct in claiming that there are atoms.

Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 21h

So ideally we should provide both housing and child-care. My worry if we focused on the second is that it would benefit those already wealthy enough for the first not to be a real constraint. (University should be free anyway.)

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 21h

That for many young academic couples (definitely in British cities, but I would imagine also in at least many US ones) is their situation.

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 21h

What if you’d been in a small one-bedroom apartment and moving to anything larger would also have been prohibitively expensive?

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 21h

I guess you were deliberating about that in housing that was not merely a one-bedroom apartment?

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 21h

There’s no doubt a difference between people who don’t want children and people who don’t want children enough to put up with the hassles. It’s hard to see what could incentivise the former (unless, indeed, it becomes a matter of social duty).

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 22h

But the key demographic here is surely that of the young to middle-aged graduate class; those who are brought up to care about overcrowding and the need for children to have security and adequate space.

Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 22h

It would be interesting to know whether as the number of families in temporary accommodation increases, the birth-rate in that demographic holds.

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 23h

If you’re in London in a privately-rented flat with barely adequate living space already with its costing 40% or more of your gross income, having a family would not be attractive.

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 23h

One trouble with giving democratic advantage to those who now do have children is that they are likely to be wealthier and this may actually make it less likely for there to be the necessary policies that would encourage the less well-off to have children.

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 23h

I imagine the principal disincentive for having children is the lack of suitable housing—suitable in respect both of size and security of tenure. What’s needed —again — is the large-scale building of social housing in which people can bring up families.

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 1d

and what you’re trying to do is to determine what he’s talking about from what he says about it.

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 1d

So as a reader you have effectively to put implicit scare-quotes round e.g. ‘happiness’ so as to leave it open that rather than making peculiar claims about happiness Aristotle is actually about showing else,

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 1d

One of the unavoidable problems with reading ancient texts in translation (perhaps particularly philosophical texts) is that the translator may have no option but to choose terms that are to some degree (sometimes to a great degree) misleading.

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 1d

Can you not reprogramme the layout?

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ETHICS journal @ethicsjournal.bsky.social · 2d

Jake Wojtowicz reviews Paddy McQueen’s “Regret” for ETHICS at doi.org/10.1086/736734 #philsky #PolTheory #legalphil #moralphil #moralphilosophy #legalphilosophy

McQueen, Paddy. Regret. Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 296. $95.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 1

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 1d

What would verify it is identifying the text where you think you find it.

Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 1d

That doesn’t verify it at all.

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 1d

A nice review by Christopher Moore of Malcolm Schofield’s collection of essays on Plato.

“But owning and reading through the whole book has the salutary effect of re-enchanting the study of Plato.”

ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/how-...

How Plato Writes: Perspectives and Problems

In How Plato Writes, Malcolm Schofield collects fourteen “occasional offerings” on Plato published between 1997 and 2021. Binding togethe...

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Stephen Everson @severson.bsky.social · 2d

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