Tag: Plato
Reading Reality (and Watching for Bric-à-Brac on Our Windowsill)
Christian monastic pioneers saw that books left on the windowsill are more likely to make an impression on those outside than on those within.
Modest Proposal: Tobacco is Like Love
Among the legion of unjustly forgotten historical figures there’s an eccentric soldier and failed composer named Captain Tobias Hume. Unless you play the...
Fierce Velleity: Poetry as Antidote to Acedia
In “Lying,” the late Richard Wilbur diagnoses one of our age’s endemic ills with the paradoxical phrase “fierce velleity.” For those of...
Identity and Ethnos in Socrates’s Athens: A Response to Jordan Wales
Jordan Wales has recently gifted the conservative movement a sober and justly-timed critique of Richard Spencer and the alt-right. Unfortunately, much of the analysis...
The Craft of Education
“Then education is the craft concerned with doing this very thing, this turning around, and with how the soul can most easily and effectively...
Summer Reading is for Everyone
“Then shall we carelessly allow the children to hear any old stories…?”
Plato, Republic
Summer is a time for stories. There is a great tradition of...
From The Multiversity: Plato
What can Plato teach us about and in the modern multiversity?
Grateful to be a Teacher
“It’s no easy task—indeed it’s very difficult—to realize that in every soul there is an instrument that is purified and rekindled by such subjects...
Gestures: A Meeting of Body and Soul
“Imitations practiced from youth become part of nature and settle into habits of gesture, voice, and thought.” Plato, Republic III
Plato showed great concern about...
Discussing Virtue, Daily
“It is the greatest good for a man to discuss virtue every day and those other things about which you hear me conversing and...