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In Book II (369a-372d) of the Republic, Socrates reasons step-by-step through what would be required to create a simple and harmonious city, one in which the citizens "will live in peace and good health, and when they die at a ripe old age, they will bequeath a similar life
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In Book I (345e-347a) of the Republic, Socrates distinguishes between one's ability to succeed at a craft (to be a craftsman) and one's ability to succeed in being paid (to be a wage-earner); and states that the two abilities should be considered in isolation from one
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OK, now, this is just awesome right here. (H/t to Smashing Magazine.)
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Update: Look here for updated information. What good is it to have the right to cancel a subscription during a one-month trial period if the company gives you no way to cancel it? I signed up for ESPN Insider a month ago. A week ago, I realized that, as someone
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I find these quotes from Bernstein fascinating because popular history books so often mention money, but so rarely describe what that money was. [The eight-real "Spanish dollar"], which flooded the European currency markets in the sixteenth century, was approximately the same size and weight as the Bohemian thaler—
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This morning, my breakfast was a fruit smoothie that I bought at Starbucks. Then I bought a large iced tea at Starbucks. While I sipped the iced tea, I listened to a jazz compilation released by Hear Music, the music label created by Starbucks. I appear to have been colonized.
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The basic unit of currency of the premodern world was remarkably constant: a small gold coin weighing approximately four grams—one-eighth of an ounce—and about the size of a present-day American dime, appearing in various times and places as the French livre, Florentine florin, Spanish or Venetian ducat, Portuguese