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Christopher Bruell on Plato’s “Cleitophon”

Posted on March 20, 2021 by ashok / 0 Comment

The trap in commenting on the specific work of a specific scholar is that the audience can become hopelessly lost. So I know it’s important to make a few remark...

nietzsche/philosophy

On the First Line of Nietzsche’s “On the Pathos of Truth”

Posted on February 22, 2021 by ashok / 1 Comment

Nietzsche begins “On the Pathos of Truth” with a sentence that merits an essay: “Is fame actually nothing but the tastiest morsel of our self-love?” When I firs...

philosophy

Descartes’ Insulting Language in the Preface to the Meditations on First Philosophy

Posted on November 5, 2020 by ashok / 0 Comment

“The Meditations will inevitably be read by weak minds who will believe and be consoled by the promise of immortality, but it is addressed to les plus for...

philosophy/plato

Socrates, Money, and Virtue: Apology of Socrates 30a-c

Posted on October 23, 2020 by ashok / 0 Comment

What I would like is success. I’d like to do a thing well, get something good, and feel secure about what I can accomplish.  Maybe “success” is the wrong w...

nietzsche/philosophy/poetry

Giuseppe Ungaretti, “I am a creature”

Posted on June 25, 2020 by ashok / 0 Comment

At the battle, where one maneuvers around life and death, the mountain comes into view over and over. The mountain, “this stone,” breaks the sky, bu...

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