Join 📚Jof’S Book Highlights

A batch of the best highlights from what Jophin's read, .

In creating a notion of dominium, then, and thus creating the modern principle of absolute private property, what Roman jurists were doing first of all was taking a principle of domestic authority, of absolute power over people, defining some of those people (slaves) as things, and then extending the logic that originally applied to slaves to geese, chariots, barns, jewelry boxes, and so forth—that is, to every other sort of thing that the law had anything to do with.

Debt

David Graeber

Shortness of life. Vastness of time before and after. Fragility of matter.

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

For the truly humanist educator and the authentic revolutionary, the object of action is the reality to be transformed by them together with other people—not other men and women themselves.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire, Donaldo Macedo (Introduction), Myra Bergman Ramos (Translator)

...catch up on these, and many more highlights