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On Esotericism

Posted on November 9, 2016 by ashok / 0 Comment

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, ...

philosophy/plato/politics

Plato, “Lovers”

Posted on May 23, 2015 by ashok

for Nathaniel Cochran & Christopher Kirk I Or Rivals, or On Philosophy. This short dialogue probably found disrepute because of its unabashed frankness abou...

philosophy/plato

Plato, “Cleitophon”

Posted on February 26, 2015 by ashok

Plato, “Cleitophon” (trans. W.R.M. Lamb; below, citations and quotes are from Clifford Orwin’s translation. Numbers in parentheses without an ...

philosophy/plato/xenophon

On Crispin Sartwell’s discussion of “kalos:” What does knowing have to do with nobility or beauty?

Posted on October 2, 2013 by ashok / 0 Comment

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 &...

philosophy/plato/poetry

John Koethe, “Book X”

Posted on October 2, 2012 by ashok / 0 Comment

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...

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