The Gymnasium
Underground UniversityIntellectual workouts (i.e., a series of signposts to guide readers in the independent study of the Great Books exploring fundamental and perennial questions of human being) for those who think the unexamined life is not worth living.
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Clouds VI [redux]
Now the two speeches bicker back and forth: “someday you will realize the mistakes you’re making,” “you’re shamefully squalid,” “you have been debased,” “the wise ones understand they should take on the new ways and get with the times.” The...
Clouds V [redux]
Skipping over the chorus, and picking back up Socrates re-emerging from the thinkery, we see the teacher is not satisfied with the progress of the student. The first question that Socrates asks is, “Come now, what do you first wish to learn...
Clouds IV [redux]
The play opens with Strepsiades, who wakes up in his bed with his son and swears an oath to Zeus. Pheidippides, still sleeping, cries out “that’s unjust!” This reveals that Strepsiades’s son has a sense of justice. We also come to see what...
Clouds III [redux]
As this is the last post for 2022, we would like to wish you all a Happy New Year filled with personal and professional growth and success!
Because Aristophanes is challenging Socrates to a contest of wisdom, at least in a sense, the Cloud...
Clouds II [redux]
The next several weeks will go much easier if you simply spend the time to blow through the Clouds. You can access the text here or buy it using our affiliate link here. You won’t regret it.
There are very few plays about philosophers—in f...
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