The good is one thing, the gratifying is quite another; their goals are different, both bind a man. Good things await him who picks the
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Jeopardized and Jeopardizing
“As we attempt to analyze dialogue as a human phenomenon, we discover something which is the essence of dialogue itself: the word. But the word
Reading Plato on Death Row – New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
A really powerful & timely philosophical practice. Every Wednesday, I go to Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in Nashville to facilitate a discussion group with prisoners
How do we Shape Souls Without Longing?
Nice looking backward at Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind. Deneen correctly locates the import of the text in its prescient concern with the dis-ease
The Revolt of the Masses & the Politics of the Big Lie
I am reminded, while reading this article, of Jose Ortega y Gasset’s Revolt of the Masses. One thing characterizing “mass humanity”–what I like to call the
CALL ME MAGGIE 