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...
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“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...
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, ...