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Christmas is traditionally a time for ghost stories, a subject for which I have an immense affection, so much so that I once spent an entire decade or so, on and off, researching and writing a book about poltergeists and their implied social and psychological meaning. Or, at least, that what I thought I was writing. (more…)
François-André Vincent, Alcibades Being Taught by Socrates (1776)
François-André Vincent, Alcibades Being Taught by Socrates (1776)
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Greg Johnson is teaching a five-week course on Plato’s Gorgias on Counter-Currents Radio, and the last lecture is now available. See below. Topics discussed include:
1. How we can secure ourselves against doing injustice but not really against suffering it? (more…)