Homer is acknowledged by Socrates as the educator of Hellas, “the most poetic of the poets and the first of tragedians” who provides the model around which…
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” –Maya Angelou The term “woke” is associated with increasingly widespread…
The question of how the Western ideal of liberal education fits with Asian cultures is longstanding.[1][2] Our present time is one characterized by an opening up between…
Knowledge, Sophistry, & Scientific Politics: Plato’s Dialogues. Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman. James M. Rhodes. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2020. Rhodes wants to see whether…
This life’s dim windows of the soul Distorts the Heavens from pole to pole, And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, no through,…
Near the beginning of Greater Hippias, Socrates introduces an alter-Socrates (his intellectual conscience, we might say) who poses this question: “Socrates, how do you know what sorts…
The common reading of the Crito asserts that the dialogue examines the nature of just and unjust laws with contingent concerns for how a person should respond…
In the history of philosophy, what is the permanent achievement of the Pre-Socratics? Did they attain anything in thought that we can rightly credit to them? Or…
Periodically, some group of people come up with what seems to them to be the secret to human happiness; the end of marriage and the birth of…
“Stay true. Be you.” “Stay true to yourself.” “Be who you are.” “Just be yourself.” “You do you.” These slogans are part of the fundamental fabric of…
Socrates and Divine Revelation. Lewis Fallis. Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2018. In the landscape of political philosophy today, one is fairly hard-pressed to find any…
Famously, Socrates caps off his preliminary account of the beautiful city in the Republic with a description of the primary condition – by his own admission a…
A Case for Irony. Jonathan Lear (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011). Today we often misunderstand irony for sarcasm, self-detachment, or cleverness instead as a source…
I will be focusing on the following questions: What is the place of these texts in the corpus of Patocka’s works? How do they fit into the…
Thank-you Professor Cheng, the Lingnan University Office of Global Education, and the sponsors of this conference for inviting me to join you at this crucially important conference…