Gregory Convertito
@gregconvertito.bsky.social
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Philosophy adjunct. Political philosophy, Marx, Latin America, and some other stuff. he/him gregoryconvertito.wordpress.com Series editor of @apaphilosophy.bsky.social Teaching and Learning Video Series. Not expressing the views of my employer.
![Excerpt from Marx’s and Engels’s “The German Ideology”:
The Illusions of German Ideology
As we hear from German ideologists, Germany has in the last few years gone through an unparalleled revolution. The decomposition of the Hegelian philosophy, which began with Strauss, has developed into a universal ferment into which all the “powers of the past” are swept. In the general chaos mighty empires have arisen only to meet with immediate doom, heroes have emerged momentarily only to be hurled back into obscurity by bolder and stronger rivals. It was a revolution beside which the French Revolution was child’s play, a world struggle beside which the struggles of the Diadochi [successors of Alexander the Great] appear insignificant. Principles ousted one another, heroes of the mind overthrew each other with unheard-of rapidity, and in the three years 1842-45 more of the past was swept away in Germany than at other times in three centuries.
All this is supposed to have taken place in the realm of pure thought.
Certainly it is an interesting event we are dealing with: the putrescence of the absolute spirit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fxywjftujsqyp252u3ez2fb5/bafkreig7hmgwcrjn4levwtzlgja4gtjff5m6wagqt6watmgirfpgi3yg7i)
![In late eighteenth-century North America as elsewhere, practical political experiences prompted reflection on political ideas. The rejection of British rule that was announced by the Declaration of Independence in July 1776, fought for during the War of Independence that followed, and cemented by the development and establishmen: first of the state constitutions and then, in 1787, of the Constitution of the United States of America generated much debate both in America and beyond. Few American revolutionaries were more prolific in their political thinking than the man who would become the second president of the United States: John Adams (1735-1826). His ‘A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States of America’ (1787) epitomised this merging of the theoretical and the practical. Not only did it draw on both political thought and practical experience, but it used historical examples to identify the most appropriate model for new constitutions at both state and federal levels.
Adams's deep thinking on the nature of republican government led him to eschew any simple conception of the form. Part of the point of his survey of republican models, past and present, factual and fictitious, was to demonstrate that all republics are not the same, and his findings implied that in practice Cicero's equation of good government with republican government did not hold […]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fxywjftujsqyp252u3ez2fb5/bafkreig77wp3qfvao44w6vtaf27hqtgdrdcfp5fkpnq7a3nve4vbyjacdm)
![[tweet from Jules Terpak, @julesterpak]:
Lol I cheated my whole way through college before ChatGPT. The learning environment is wildly outdated, uninspiring, and non-retentive (meaning you remember info for a test/to hit marks, then it's gone be you have no true life experience to even stick it to yet). And now, all that time and money spent in college doesn't even guarantee you a job at the end of it. These are the issues at the forefront imo](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fxywjftujsqyp252u3ez2fb5/bafkreiczjvf3gphyrkvkyjqbgo7ex4oumbure53j32cput32gaf3f4igba)
![John Paul, Pope; Castro, Fidel (2004).
Bergoglio, Jorge (ed.). Diálogos entre Juan Pablo Il y Fidel Castro [Dialogues Between John Paul I| and Fidel Castro] (in Spanish).
Buenos Aires: Ciudad Argentina.
ISBN 9789875070745.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fxywjftujsqyp252u3ez2fb5/bafkreif76nlgiw3nwe3xlac65cisug2lonf5jdkfa2wwhyggzqg3hzpl6i)
