Sublime

If Daniel feels subtly afraid of them, he will pay attention. The twenty-first-century founder is akin to the pirate of the sixteenth century—an outsider overflowing with energy and brazen charisma.

Without realizing it, too many leaders assume that the role of leadership is to control. They espouse Plato’s “division of labor,” which, according to social thinker Hannah Arendt, has influenced government and military structures for thousands of years.

In 335 BCE, Aristotle set up his school in the area known as the Lyceum, in Athens. His adherents were known as Peripatetics, which means ‘walking up and down’ – this may have derived from the peripatos or ‘walking ground’ in the Lyceum, or more endearingly from the fact that Aristotle liked to pace back and forth while lecturing.

Polybius on the politics of Rome

We can choose a purely technocratic approach—one that sees each of us as a set of financial and material needs to be satisfied—and simply transfer enough cash to all people so that they don’t starve or go homeless. In fact, this notion of universal basic income seems to be becoming more and more popular these days. But in making that choice I belie

Peter Singer, Australian moral philosopher