Footnotes
1.
Plato,
“The Republic, Desmond Lee ed.”; Penguin Books; London, England; 1987; p. 260.
2.
Hannah Arendt; “Between Past and Future”; Penguin Books; New York, N.Y.; 2006;
p. 258.
3.
Danielle Allen; “Why Plato Wrote”; John Wiley & Sons Ltd.; West Sussex,
England; 2013; p. 140.
4.
Plato, p. 256.
5.
Rene Descartes; “Discourse on Method and Meditations”; Macmillan Publishing
Company; New York, N.Y.; 1960; p. 15.
6.
Ibid.; p. 24.
7.
Alan Lightman; “Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine”; Vintage Books; New
York, N.Y.; 2018; p.p. 146-147.
8.
Leonard Sussman; “Quantum Mechanics, the Theoretical Minimum”; Basic Books; New
York, N.Y.; 2014; p.6, p.8.
Easy for him.
8a
Ibid., p.6.
9.
Value investing is an investment discipline. Its financial principle is, “Never
pay retail.” Value investors prefer non-cyclical companies with moats around their
franchises. A serious investor in individual stocks should know, or learn, what
investment style fits their temperament.
10. Lightman, p. 97.
11.
Karl Marx; “The Communist Manifesto, Pozner ed.”;
Bantam; New York, N.Y.; 1992; p. 17.
12.
Lightman, p. 157.
13.
Adam Smith, “The Essential Adam Smith, Robert Heilbroner
ed.”; W.W. Norton & Company; New York, N.Y.; 1986; p. 151.
14.
Ibid.; p. 169.
15
Ibid.; p. 62.
16.
Ibid.; p.p. 65-66.
16a.
Johns Hopkins University; “Coronavirus Resource Center”; Deaths per 100,000
population.
17.
Hannah Arendt; “The Origins of Totalitarianism”; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; New
York, N.Y.; 1976; p. 364.
18.
Ibid.; p. 384.
19.
Ibid.; p. 385.
20.
Ibid.; p. 387.
21.
Ibid.; p. 430.
22.
Edmund Burke; “Reflections on the Revolution in France, J. Popcock
ed.;” Hackett Publishing Company; Indianapolis IN; 1987; p. 119.
22a
According to Geoffrey Hinton (recipient of the 2018 Turing Award for his work
on A.I., recently at Google and a graduate of the University of Cambridge) A.I.
will fast become more intelligent than humans due to the network of thousands
of computers that can learn instantaneously. The best way to get A.I. to work
for human purposes is by designing in principles, rather than confusing and
contradictory guidelines. In other words, these systems have to be brought up
well.
23.
Financial Times; 5/26/23; “Britain is not America”.