Christopher Bruell on Plato’s “Cleitophon”
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...
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Socrates, Money, and Virtue: Apology of Socrates 30a-c
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...
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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...
Plato, “Meno,” 70A-72A
I am using the Anastaplo & Berns translation. Plato’s Meno, tr. Anastaplo & Berns. Newburyport: Focus, 2004. In this lecture I want to address thr...
Plato, “Apology of Socrates” 19b-c
[Note: Blogging more about lesson plans because “course goals” and “course objectives” do not quite capture the conversation I’m t...