/lit/ - Literature

No essay today.

The 'demos', the origin of the word Demon, in Christian thought, is plainly the rabble of mankind in the grips of unthinking emotionalism which the protagonist; that being the Roman Governor, ought not be led by at all.

The villains of modern history, I propose, have always existed in every society, except that it is only in a democracy that such people - who ought be ignored - rise from the gutters and come to command that misbegotten herd of accidents who resonate with the hyper emotionalism of the demagogues; yet the demagogues remain slaves to the rabble.

Most politicians are this; from the most well-meaning liberal to the most well-meaning hitlerian, and democracy was once upon a time a joke or a cautionary tale. Even a republic, really, is flawed by demos.

/discuss

>>20721308
>Skeptical philosophers always resort to faith and belief instead of justification, which they claim is impossible, to ground their interpretation of the world. But how can you resort to belief when you don't even know if you have a faculty of belief, or if beliefs exist? If that is the case, then you can't ground your interpretation like that. Jacobi and Kierkegaard seem to do this without showing it's valid. How do you fix this?

>"the Academics are unaware that they are conflicting with themselves. For to make unambiguous assertions and denials, whilst at the same time as stating as a generalization that no things are cognitive, introduces an undeniable conflict:
>How is it possible to recognize that one thing is true and one thing false, and yet still entertain perplexity and doubt, and not make a clear choice of the one and avoidance of the other?"

>St. Photios 'the Great' of Constantinople,
>Myriobiblion
>9th Cent. Byz.