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Protagoras and Meno
This book is fascinating. I always feel like such a dullard reading this stuff. I have trouble following the arguments and noticing logic issues that the writer of the introduction never fails to point out. What’s more these Greeks seem like pretty sharp cookies, at least compared to me. Plato seems to have spent a [...]
The Satyricon
The Burnaby Translation Went to my favorite used book store and found a copy of the Satyricon, translated to english by William Burnaby in 1694. The book was written, during the Imperial Roman era by Titus Petronius. Nothing is known of Petronius except for a few fragments believed to be of the same man: From [...]
Republic
The Republic offers a reasoned argument for why a person should live a just, rather than an unjust, life. It does so without recourse to religion or natural law or appeals to self evidence. In the process of the proof, the nature of a just society is also described and how the various unjust forms [...]