User:GreenLoeb
About me[edit]
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My love of encyclopedias goes back to my earliest memories, when I would dig through my grandfather’s 1978 World Book Encyclopedia set for hours every afternoon, from the time I got home from school till dinner, and often late into the night, well past my bedtime. I started editing Wikipedia in May of 2019, though I had been lurking and browsing Wikipedia since around 2008, when I was 10 years old. My username is a reference to the color of the Greek volumes published by the Loeb Classical Library. I hope to own every volume they publish one day.
I am a graduate student in political theory, a lowercase-o orthodox Christian, a twelfth-generation Appalachian, and an ex-Marxist who was so entranced by After Virtue that I now would call myself a conservative communitarian. I have a deep interest in marginal and radical political thought, motivated by my longstanding sense that liberalism is a philosophical dead end which degrades the ontological status of the human being. These biographical facts guide a lot of what I edit on here. My own chief intellectual influences are the Hebrew prophets, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, the English metaphysical poets, Tocqueville, Kierkegaard, Hannah Arendt, T. S. Eliot, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Christopher Lasch, and Giorgio Agamben.
I read a lot, and you are welcome to follow me on Goodreads.