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, ...
Category: plato
Plato, “Lovers”
for Nathaniel Cochran & Christopher Kirk I Or Rivals, or On Philosophy. This short dialogue probably found disrepute because of its unabashed frankness abou...
Plato, “Cleitophon”
Plato, “Cleitophon” (trans. W.R.M. Lamb; below, citations and quotes are from Clifford Orwin’s translation. Numbers in parentheses without an ...
On Crispin Sartwell’s discussion of “kalos:” What does knowing have to do with nobility or beauty?
1. Encountered Crispin Sartwell’s “Six Names of Beauty” at the bookstore. Saw that he had a chapter on kalos, the ancient Greek word meaning &...
John Koethe, “Book X”
John Koethe, “Book X” 1. The last book of Plato’s Republic confuses me too. Why does it critique imitation and poetry? What I understand of th...