What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.
How much freedom I have depends on the number and nature of my options. And that, in turn, depends both on the rules of the game and on the assetts of the players: it is a very important and widely neglected truth that it does not depend on the rules of the game alone.
What I have advocated is that we pass law in this country that says all human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection. In fact, I think that law already exists. It is called the Constitution of the United States.
The full moon - the mandala of the sky.