No. 4: 2023.08.18

Aristotle/Dewey/Freud/Homer/Booker T. Washington

Here's some things people have been writing:

Homer’s Odyssey will lead off the New College of Florida’s new core curriculum. The gender studies program was cut. City Journal

Freud was unsure how trauma came to be and whether it was a manifested physically or mentally. Bessel van der Kolk’s lifework led to our view today that trauma is a state of the body, not a way of interpreting the past. New York Magazine

Booker T. Washington’s and Malcolm X’s voices echo in Clarence Thomas’ opinion—dissented by Ketanji Brown Jackson—that black people would be harmed by laws that seek to redress old wrongs by favoring black people on the basis of skin color. Atlantic

Dewey’s pragmatism was a big influence on his student Bhimrao Ambedkar, an “untouchable” who was the chief architect of India’s constitution. Aeon

Aristotle’s ten rules for (or dimensions of) happiness are courage, temperance, liberality, magnificence, greatness of soul, gentleness, truthfulness about yourself, forgiveness, and modesty. The article is sprinkled with links to worthwhile sources. Atlantic