Approaching Definitions

Among the challenges we encounter in our public conversations is a welter of confusion around crucial terms which, though widely used, are rarely defined... or at least rarely defined explicitly. The consequence is a situation where rather than aiding progress in conversation, they frequently impede it. This is one effort to encourage remedy of this impasse by at least approaching the definition of some of these terms...

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Monday, April 25, 2016

Approaching Definitions - What are the 'Left' and the 'Right'?




In this video, we consider the notions of the 'Left' and the 'Right' as poles of the political spectrum, briefly recapitulating the history of the terms in this sense, and considering their implications of political and economic matters...

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