Political Philosophy

Very interesting thank you, it’s interesting to see quotes from people I have looked up to over the years, Noam Chomsky, Dostoyevsky, Ed Murrow and Stephen Hawking. My Mum was a huge fan of Ed Murrow, I wonder what he would have to say about President Trump?

Yes good thinkers political philosophy. The wise who speak out for humanity.

I like these thoughts ideas and the comments that follows

I knew about the book for a long time but it was comparitively recently that I learned about her involvement with France and the Revolution. She lived an amazing life I agree about her death and her daughter.

Oh Mary Wollstonecraft trisher! I wanted to do my thesis on her but was steered away, I think because my supervisor was sick of reading undergrad work on her.

Phenomenal woman. Tragically ironic that the first feminist should die from the effects of childbirth, living the infant Mary Shelley without a mother.

Trisher it really is quite amazing how MW had such thoughts in the 18th Century and many people don't accept them now.

Thanks for all of these. Mary Wollstonecraft
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished
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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

He doesn't have to say anything intelligent, Nana3. Don't we all know that by now?

All he has to do is be bouncy and optimistic. I expect the baby will get thrown into the mix, too. Absolute winner...

*GagaJo . My thanks too and for follow up contributions.
I will be listening to Johnson this afternoon, I won't be holding my breath to hear anything wise, I believe and hope it will be the end of his political career if he says nothing intelligent to impress the nation.

Hannah Arendt comes to mind.

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist." ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

I find this one so dreadfully apt for our situation over the past few years.

Good gaga takes me back a few years?

Gagajo Thank you for the above. I too agree with the sentiments expressed and also with "Cindersdad". A breath of fresh air after some of the other threads.

Do you have any quotes from women thinkers or writers? I'm busy at the moment but will try to find some later on.

I largely agree with the sentiments expressed but like many feel disempowered especially in lock down. My views are sometimes seen as extreme . I firmly believe that I am right about Brexit (a total cock up) that has inevitably made COVID-19 in the UK worse.

However individual rantings and petitions are ignored by those in power. What can we do? Hope a public enquiry at some time in the future will bring the guilty to account.

When I was working I was often right about company policy but as my MD said "No one enjoys hearing 'I told you so'".