One of the oldest and most exhausted questions in the history of philosophy is why Plato found it necessary and expedient to deport the poets from his perfect society in The Republic. It’s a question many have hypothesized about although, perhaps, unsatisfactorily. One of the 20th century’s great classicists, … Continue Reading about Questioning Doubt and the Expulsion of the Poets
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This essay is part of a series of essays called Embarked that seek to … Continue Reading about Embarked

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We live in a fractured world. However, a world of seven billion unique individuals voicing their opinion is not a problem. The problem is that that rapidly growing number is without any shared or common understanding, upon which there can be no…