Our friend Brad Birzer is at it again, and we do mean at it again. He is writing, sure, but more importantly, he is thinking, reading, and teaching. Here’s what he’s got to say about some of the greatest minds the human race has produced:
Every autumn, I have the grand privilege of teaching Socrates (the Apology, the Crito), Plato (Book VIII of the Republic, the Timaeus), and Aristotle (the Politics, Book X of the Ethics) to incoming freshmen as a part of our Hillsdale College core. And, every year, I am both elevated and humbled by what I get to teach. Truly, astounded and, to use a term from my generation, floored.
You can read the rest of his excellent article at The Imaginative Conservative.