Monday, April 24, 2023

A review of “Great Epochs of European Art: Art of the Ancient Greeks & Romans”

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The difficulties of learning about Greek and Roman art from textbooks For many years now, I’ve been interested in Ancient Greece and Rome . ...
Monday, April 17, 2023

A review of “Plato” (audiobook)

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“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato .” – Alfr...
Sunday, April 9, 2023

A review of “The Civil War” (audiobook)

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“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war . The Government will not assail you...
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...
Monday, March 20, 2023

A review of “Aristotle” (audiobook)

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“We must not expect of Aristotle such literary brilliance as floods the pages of the dramatist-philosopher Plato. Instead of giving us great...
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

A few problems with Plato’s “Republic” (and his ideal state)

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“You know also that the beginning is the most important part of any work , especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is t...
Saturday, February 25, 2023

The Founding Fathers strongly criticized Plato’s “Republic” (and for good reason)

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“Socrates had reason indeed to complain of the misrepresentations of Plato ; for in truth his dialogues are libels on Socrates.” –  Thomas J...