Xenophon’s Socrates
Remarks that were meant to be delivered December 1st, 2017 by the author at the Gorman Faculty Lounge, University of Dallas. The dissertation defense was succes...
Category: philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Case of Wagner,” 1st Chapter
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Bruno Bettelheim, “Freud and Man’s Soul”
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On Esotericism
John Smith, according to Jill Lepore, was prone to making things up. He claimed to have bedded princesses while battling by land or sea the world over. Russia, ...
Xenophon, “Apology of Socrates”
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