Tag: Plato
Metaphysical hunger
“It is from Plato that we inherit two basic lines of thinking about the body, which I will oversimplify here for the sake of argument. The first is that philosophy consists in the pursuit of truth, which is attained through thinking, and analogous to erotic desire. Second, this pursuit is hindered rather than helped by…
Learning changes
The way we learn changes. As I prepared for a presentation, I looked at my notes in which the first couple of pages differed drastically from the more recent ones. Those beginnings barely resembled an academic study. I remember that it was a few weeks into this particular graduate course that I realised how I…
What does it mean for [a] life to be “worth living”?
I have been reading about Socrates and have finally come to the texts Crito and Apology. In the latter, Socrates utters the line “The unexamined life is not worth living,” which has always made me wonder. It is a popular line, so much so that it seems as though its meaning should be straightforward, yet…