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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Posted on February 29, 2020 by ashok / 0 Comment

1 The unexamined life is not worth living does not seem true. We can be very hurt in friendships and relationships; we can fall to pieces when goals, large or s...

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Susan Sontag: “No “we” should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.”

Posted on February 25, 2020 by ashok / 0 Comment

I wonder how my best students make something special out of what I assign. I’m staring at an essay—the first chapter of Sontag’s Regarding the Pain ...

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Plato, “Meno,” 70A-72A

Posted on February 24, 2020 by ashok / 0 Comment

I am using the Anastaplo & Berns translation. Plato’s Meno, tr. Anastaplo & Berns. Newburyport: Focus, 2004. In this lecture I want to address thr...

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Notes on Craft: Francis Bacon, “Of Delays”

Posted on January 13, 2020 by ashok / 0 Comment

I want my writing in 2020 to demonstrate far more attentiveness to craft. How do writers create sentences their readers want to quote? How do they give them ima...

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Strategies for Students Who Have To Write About Philosophy

Posted on October 3, 2019 by ashok / 0 Comment

tl;dr: 1) start personal 2) read around / think around–if it feels too narrow a topic, it is too narrow 3) they say, I say–find opinions to work wit...

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Student of Political Philosophy. Writes too much, badly needs an editor. Everything on this blog will eventually be revised or eliminated. The hope of this blog is to present you varied, thoughtful works, ones not typically engaged online. Contact me.

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