A Day with Socrates

Thanks to his generosity of spirit, I was able to spend a day with Socrates and three of his friends during this year’s Panathenaic Festival in Athens (the festival’s procession, as you perhaps know, was recently sculpted on the frieze of the Parthenon). Socrates being Socrates, the day was spent with his friends in philosophical …

Θαυμάζειν

Welcome to my Philosophy blog! Let me start right off with some questions. Why am I interested in philosophy? What do I mean by philosophy? Why am I blogging about philosophy? Why am I blogging about philosophy? Πάντες ἄνθρωποι τοῦ εἰδέναι ὀρέγονται φύσει. Aristotle, kicking off the Metaphysics This is perhaps the easiest question to …