Freeman's Polis

Hannah Arendt wrote that "To be political, to live in a polis, meant that everything was decided through words and persuasion and not through force and violence." This site serves as a new type of polis where discourse and dialogue may be celebrated as humanities highest achievement. Exegesis Saves.

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Keynote Lectures from POSCI 1 @ Berkeley City College.



Democracy and Representation from Matthew Freeman on Vimeo.


Federalism & The Constitution (Part 1) from Matthew Freeman on Vimeo.


Federalism & The Constitution (Part 2) from Matthew Freeman on Vimeo.


Federalism & The Constitution (Part 3) from Matthew Freeman on Vimeo.
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Ruminating Professor of Political Science @ Berkeley City College observing the revelation of politics through the bridging of a critical view of that which is with a hopeful view of that which could be. Thoughts. Words. Actions.
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Monuments

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
- Wallace Stevens

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

Tyrant have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
- Hannah Arendt

You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
- Henry David Thoreau

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The breaking of a wave can not explain the whole ocean.
- Vladimir Nabokov

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln

Far better it is to dare mighty things, the win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us.
- Marcel Proust

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
- Angela Monet
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