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Preserving Democracy & Resisting Tyranny with Aristotle

Edith Hall · 12 Apr 2025

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  1. Our reading

    Ordinary people can resist tyranny through friendly everyday participation in shared meals, clubs and study circles.

    Their wordsSo there is one way to resist--through our everyday behaviours--the atmosphere of suspicion and ignorance the tyrant needs to foster, and that is to participate in a friendly manner in all such interactions and collective activities.

  2. Our reading

    No tyrant has ever overwhelmed a community that behaved as if it were not ruled by a tyrant.

    Their wordsDiscuss, debate, befriend, be kind: no tyrant has ever succeeded in overwhelming a community that behaved as if it were not ruled by a tyrant.

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