[lbo-talk] Harry Potter, Metritocracy, and Reward

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 24 04:58:31 PDT 2007


--- Robert Wrubel <bobwrubel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> There couldnt be tragedy in Aristotle's sense,
> which requires someone of elevated stature, but more
> than that, someone whose fall questions the
> established order.
>

Aristotle is talking in terms of arete, personal excellence, not social class, right? I imagine that in a hypothetical classless society there would still be differences in social status based on achievement, personal likeability and so forth.

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