Showing posts with label Socrates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Socrates. Show all posts
Sunday, August 24, 2025

In defense of the Ancient Greeks and Romans

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“In the most pure democracies of Greece , many of the executive functions were performed, not by the people themselves, but by officers elec...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

“Man is the measure of all things” … or is he?

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“It is indeed the opinion of Protagoras, who has another way of expressing it. Man, he says, is the measure of all things , of the existence...
Thursday, January 14, 2021

A review of “Socrates” (audiobook)

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“That’s the strange thing about writing, which makes it truly analogous to painting. The painter’s products stand before us as though they w...
Saturday, October 10, 2020

Some thoughts about classical education

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“[Chaerephon] went to Delphi and boldly asked the oracle to tell him … whether anyone was wiser than I was, and the Pythian prophetess ans...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

Some thoughts about philosophy education

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“[I] am a sort of gadfly , given to the state by the god; and the state is a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to hi...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Reading about the trial of Socrates in the original Greek

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates at his trial, as recorded by Plato's “Apology” Before beginning this project...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Socrates and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints  is among a number of churches that value the wisdom of Socrates. Church leaders have even...