Published inThe View from the LakeThe New TriumvirateThe informal First Triumvirate of Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great, and Marcus Licinius Crassus was a loose political alliance arranged in…Dec 23, 2024Dec 23, 2024
Platoboy and the Solipsist Search for the Form of HippopotamusnessDramatis Personae Platoboy: an enthusiastic believer in Enlightenment values.Oct 12, 2024Oct 12, 2024
Published inThe Academy of YouWhat Is an Example of Objective Knowledge?There are puzzles present here. I believe the questioner is asking for a specific claim that is objectively true, such as something like…Sep 7, 2024Sep 7, 2024
Published inThe Ocean, the River, and the TarnClassic American Fiction: A Staggering Work of Heartbreaking Genius (Thanks, Dave)American writers have all been caught somewhere in Jay Gatsby’s dream. Once they saw something fine and beautiful that they could pour…Aug 26, 2024Aug 26, 2024
Published inThe Ocean, the River, and the TarnDoes “The Great Gatsby” Have a Reliable Narrator?The author of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, is in some sense the narrator of the novel in that he created the story for the…Jul 14, 2024Jul 14, 2024
Published inThe Academy of YouA New Way to See Plato’s FormsA Platonic Form is something like a template for some particular object or idea, such as a chair. The somewhat mysterious aspect of a Form…Jul 3, 2024Jul 3, 2024
Published inThe Academy of YouPoetry’s Tightest Ball of IronyHere is an entire short poem by English Romantic Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley:Jun 25, 2024Jun 25, 2024
Published inThe Academy of YouPlato and Einstein Probably Do Not Play Dice in HeavenEinstein apparently was not comfortable with some important aspects of quantum mechanics, and among these were what looked like the…Jun 20, 2024Jun 20, 2024
Published inThe View from the Lake“Democracy” and “Republic” are not Mutually Exclusive Forms of GovernmentPhoto by Element5 Digital on UnsplashJun 18, 2024Jun 18, 2024
Published inThe Academy of You“Is All that We See or Seem but a Dream within a Dream?”Plato writes that art is the totality of graphic imitations of the empirical world by humans. Additionally, literature is the discursive…Jun 14, 2024Jun 14, 2024
