Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Yuval Noah Harari, Simone Weil and Mikhail Bakunin
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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 1. Slavery
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If effort is from necessity rather than for a good, it is slavery [Weil]
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The pleasure of completing tasks motivates just as well as the whip of slavery [Weil]
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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 3. Free speech
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Deliberate public lying should be punished [Weil]
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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 4. Free market
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No market is free of political bias, and markets need protection of their freedoms [Harari]
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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 5. Freedom of lifestyle
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Freedom may work against us, as individuals can choose to leave, and make fewer commitments [Harari]
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25. Social Practice / A. Freedoms / 6. Political freedom
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We have liberty in the space between nature and accepted authority [Weil]
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25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality
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Relationships depend on equality, so unequal treatment kills them [Weil]
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People absurdly claim an equal share of things which are essentially privileged [Weil]
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By making money the sole human measure, inequality has become universal [Weil]
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25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 4. Economic equality
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Inequality could easily be mitigated, if it were not for the struggle for power [Weil]
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25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights
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People have duties, and only have rights because of the obligations of others to them [Weil]
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Rights are asserted contentiously, and need the backing of force [Weil]
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Giving centrality to rights stifles all impulses of charity [Weil]
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25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights
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People need personal and collective property, and a social class lacking property is shameful [Weil]
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25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 1. Basis of justice
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Only people who understand force, and don't respect it, are capable of justice [Weil]
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The spirit of justice needs the full attention of truth, and that attention is love [Weil]
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Justice (concerning harm) is distinct from rights (concerning inequality) [Weil]
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25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / a. Right to punish
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To punish people we must ourselves be innocent - but that undermines the desire to punish [Weil]
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25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / d. Reform of offenders
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The only thing in society worse than crime is repressive justice [Weil]
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Crime should be punished, to bring the perpetrator freely back to morality [Weil]
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Punishment aims at the good for men who don't desire it [Weil]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / a. Just wars
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Modern wars are fought in the name of empty words which are given capital letters [Weil]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / b. Justice in war
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When war was a profession, customary morality justified any act of war [Weil]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / d. Non-combatants
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The soldier-civilian distinction should be abolished; every citizen is committed to a war [Weil]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / e. Peace
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War is perpetuated by its continual preparations [Weil]
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Real peace is the implausibility of war (and not just its absence) [Harari]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 4. Taxation
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Financing is increasingly through credit rather than taxes; people prefer investing to taxation [Harari]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / a. Aims of education
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Education is essentially motivation [Weil]
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
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Dividing history books into separate chapters is disastrous [Weil]
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The more you know about history, the harder it becomes to explain [Harari]
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History teaches us that the present was not inevitable, and shows us the possibilities [Harari]
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25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide
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Even if a drowning man is doomed, he should keep swimming to the last [Weil]
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