Civilization And The Examined Life
Do Not Spoil What You Have Epicurus, Desire, and the Industry of Progressive Dissatisfaction The Restorationist Project | May 2026 “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the…
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The Day Thinking Begins A Chapter on Intellectual Humility, the Classical Tradition,and the Citizen Who Learns to See By VA Barac • May 28, 2026 • Estimated reading time: 18–22 minutes There is a kind of knowing that is really only the echo of what…
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Prelude This essay advances a single, integrated argument: that human freedom is not a first-response phenomenon but a second-round capacity — cultivated, earned, and architecturally real. Drawing on four converging intellectual traditions, it…
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