THE VALUE OF AN EDUCATION, PERHAPS

Any way, it’s just a thought. The issue is: do you think this rhetoric has any chance of con vinc ing surly 16 year olds, who I sus pect are writ ing the forum posts?

Amplify’d from www.ashokkarra.com

I spent this morn­ing read­ing some of an essay by Hei­deg­ger, copy­ing down a poem of Yeats’ into the jour­nal (yes, I keep a pen and paper one). There’s Plato’s Gor­gias to fin­ish read­ing, and try to put together with the Pro­tago­ras and the Greater Hip­pias. I’m very happy with how the third part of that Pro­tago­ras com­men­tary turned out: it’s a good enough start­ing point for more work on the dia­logue, and still solid enough for a jump­ing point into other dialogues. Read more at www.ashokkarra.com

 

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