Jordan Eskovitz on Nostr: Manhood in the pre-industrialized world was characterized by what Anthony Rotundo ...
Manhood in the pre-industrialized world was characterized by what Anthony Rotundo called "communal manhood", which meant that a man ranks duty above personal ambition.
Of communal manhood in Colonial America, author Nancy Pearcey writes "the key word was duty: duty to one's superiors and to God. Manly virtue was defined as keeping one's 'passions' in submission to reason (with passion defined primarily as self-interest and personal ambition). The good man was he who exercised self-restraint and self-sacrifice for the sake of the common good."
In Plato's own time, the term "idiot" (idiōtēs) referred to a person who was concerned with his own private affairs or self-interest above the public good.
Therefore it is shameful for a man to be conquered by self because he becomes an idiot, unable or unwilling to master his own passions.
Make manhood dutiful again.
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Vincit qui se vincit
"He conquers who conquers himself"
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Of communal manhood in Colonial America, author Nancy Pearcey writes "the key word was duty: duty to one's superiors and to God. Manly virtue was defined as keeping one's 'passions' in submission to reason (with passion defined primarily as self-interest and personal ambition). The good man was he who exercised self-restraint and self-sacrifice for the sake of the common good."
In Plato's own time, the term "idiot" (idiōtēs) referred to a person who was concerned with his own private affairs or self-interest above the public good.
Therefore it is shameful for a man to be conquered by self because he becomes an idiot, unable or unwilling to master his own passions.
Make manhood dutiful again.
——
Vincit qui se vincit
"He conquers who conquers himself"
quoting nevent1q…n8hv"First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things the most shameful and objectionable."
#grownostr #pleb #plebchain #nostr #manhood