Reading the school’s first newsletter, it was apparent to me in a beautiful way that the TMC enterprise was meant from the beginning as a communal adventure in which teachers, administrators, students (and alumni by extension) are called to be, each in their own way, equal sharers and stewards of a common vision. To deny [...]
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“and we are here because the liberal arts are taught here in a distinctive manner”
Posted in Equality, Geometry, God, Socrates, anyone, cosmos, dialogue, flowers, history, polis, tragedy, wisdom on April 19, 2009 | 11 Comments »
another angle on cosmos
Posted in Equality, Geometry, God, Socrates, Sophistry, anyone, athens, beginnings, cosmos, dialogue, eccentric, greek, hubris, idiosyncrasy, love?, necessity, polis, wisdom on March 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
At the tail end of prosecuting his interlocutor Callicles, who has scorned his offer of friendship, balked at his refutations, and threatened him with murder, Socrates withdraws for a moment from the struggle of argument, having won something like the moment of calm perception that an exhausted warrior receives beside the ongoing fray, seeing the [...]
