Ep. 127: Political Love

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Okay, so we have a country—but isn't that a little mean? Drawing on Aristotle's definition of citizenship and politics, Spencer Klavan examines the question of open borders and asks what it really means to "love thy neighbor" in a political context.

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0:00.0	We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union,
0:04.5	establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense,
0:09.6	promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,
0:15.3	do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.
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1:30.4	.com forward slash heretics or use the promo code heretics. All right. I hope you had to memorize
1:36.9	that in school like I did. That is the preamble to the United States Constitution. I hope you
1:42.1	at least recognized it when I was reading it. But this is a obviously very famous sentence. And I
1:48.8	read it now in order to establish something important. Last week, we talked about Aristotle's
1:55.1	politics and the definition of a policy, a state, and a citizen, a politics. One who can participate
2:01.6	in ruling and being ruled. And this is in a democracy or in a republic like ours, right?
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