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What a mess we have made of things! Not just of our personal lives, but of our societies, and our planet. We look to philosophy for guidance, but the schoolmen of today—the writers of footnotes to Plato—have nothing to offer. They idle away their time building philosophical castles in the air when in a good mood, or defining each other out of existence when they aren’t.
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Binmore, K. (2020). Epicurus. In: Crooked Thinking or Straight Talk?. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39547-6_1
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