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Tag: Ancient Greek Philosophy
Before the Cave: What Plato’s Republic Expects You to Know
Background for Reading Plato’s Republic is less a syllabus than a set of bearings: the Socratic manner of inquiry, the…
Happiness Is a Public Practice: Rereading the Nicomachean Ethics
Estimated reading time: about 19 minutes A serious Nicomachean Ethics interpretation has to begin by discarding two reassuring reductions: that…
The Mean in Its Proper Place: Aristotle’s Doctrine in Book II
The “Doctrine of the Mean” is not a separate Aristotelian essay. The Doctrine of the Mean in Nicomachean Ethics is…
