No. 10: Selfhood, birds, and property law.

Aristotle/Dostoevsky/Foucault/Heidegger/Hobbes/Kant/Marx/Montaigne/Nabokov/Nietzsche/Plato

Here's some things people have been writing:

Aristotle thought seasonal bird disappearances meant hibernation or butterfly-like species transformation. scientificamerican

Nabokov and Nietzsche show up in Sting’s songs from the 80s. Today expectations are lower and so you don’t see any such thing in Taylor Swift songs. thefederalist

Montaigne’s writing, bent as it is on selfhood, has been a lifelong anchor for me. theatlantic

Marx and Foucault and Kant and Heidegger, oh my! How am I to keep up with all of them. Maybe I’m not. reddit

Plato’s theory of forms is silly. There’s no such thing as an ideal “blue”. ycombinator

Hobbes theorized that property rights are a legal construct introduced by the modern state. By the late 19th century, intersections between law and economics, like taxation, were scrutinized by economists. economist

Dostoyevsky was praised by Pope Francis. He clarified that the Russian culture of that era was great, though the imperialism was not. nytimes