Athenian Stranger
Philosophy with specialty in classical political philosophy, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare and the late/postmodern reception of them
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The Purpose of Reading: Thucydides, Plutarch, Montesquieu, Nietzsche
This discussion contains what the authors of the “great books” have to say about the purpose of reading with emphasis on what they teach we their readers about the obstacles and limitations of reading.
Alternatively, this discussion contai...
Aristotle's Great Souled Man and Nietzsche
The greatness of, and great tensions in, greatness of soul: From Thucydides, Christianity, and Shakespeare to Nietzsche
In this discussion I introduce the virtue of greatness of soul in Aristotle for better understanding the depths of Aris...
Thucydides's Spartans: On War, Education, and Philosophy
All I can really say of this is that I hope everyone listens to it because I think it contains possibly the most important indication of how much we can learn from Thucydides for almost all of the most important problems we are faced with t...
An Intro to Pericles's Funeral Oration in Thucydides and the Problem of Academics
For Memorial Day:
This is an introductory discussion on Pericles’s funeral oration in Thucydides’s “Peloponnesian War.”
In it, I discuss how and why the text itself should be understood as absolutely crucial —even central— to any educatio...
Nietzsche, History, Poetry, and the Universities
A Comprehensive Introduction to the Thought of Nietzsche (part 2): Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle for Nietzsche
In this discussion I introduce the thought of Nietzsche as the best lens through which we can understand the meaning of educa...
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Philosophy with specialty in Homer, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare and the late/postmodern reception of them in the 17th-21st centuries
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