Reality is discovered, not constructed.

Aristotle's politics is just taking reality at its word.

We may not like the fact that we are paired animals that are oriented towards the procreation of new life,

that we're vulnerable so that we need a community for our medium-term needs,

and we need a city-state for our long-term protective and productive

needs and so on.

But that's what it's like.

That's the way it is.

It's how we are.

Is this then the worldview which in its sort of pop idiocy's form cashes out as sex is a social

construct?

I think it's completely connected.

As the great Antienne Gilsson said,

Metaphysics always buries its undertakers.

Hello and welcome to Socrates' dialogues. I'm Mary Harrington. And today I have the great

privilege of being joined by James Orr, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge and a senior advisor to Nigel Farage.

Welcome, James. Great to be with you, Mary. And thank you for joining us today. So you have had

one of the more unusual career trajectories that I can think of to date, classics at Oxford,

and then a stint as a high-flying legal professional, followed by somehow

parlaying that into an equally stellar academic career in moral philosophy at the University

of Cambridge, until somehow politics came calling, as it very visibly and quite all-consumingly now has.

First, if I remember rightly, it was Brexit.

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