To quote Bertrand Russell, we can make it right with an education that gives "a sense of the value of things other than domination, to help create wise citizens of a free community".
This is the task of a liberal education: to give a sense of the value of things other than domination, to help create wise citizens of a free community, and through the combination of citizenship with liberty in individual creativeness to enable men to give to human life that splendour which some few have shown that it can achieve (Russell 1938 251).
However, over time later Stoics moved away from this classical concern with participation in specific cities, to a new ideal of a cosmic city in which all and only the wise are citizens.
A word to our wise La Cañada Flintridge citizens: Keep your doors and windows locked, your eyes open and your valuables well hidden.
Such a conception of liberalism and democracy, however, will not only reveal its inability to offer wise representation to citizens.
The two Chinese leaders promise their citizens wise stewardship and rising prosperity in return for political quiescence, but suddenly they have the appearance of vulnerability.
You see the wise, optimistic young citizens of "Spellbound," whether struggling or triumphant, and you see the whole package that is America, imperfect and heartbreaking as it sometimes is.
He was a wonderful, dedicated son, father, husband, and citizen; a wise and analytical advisor; and terrific company.
Through humble beginnings in the 1970s and a wise culture that values citizen action, the commission is key to making sure many miles of the Central Coast's rolling hills will meet the sea 100 years from now with a quiet grace that stands far above our current squabbles.
It remains to be seen whether it was a wise decision, but UK citizens recently exercised their democratic right by voting to leave the comparatively less democratic EU.
