The Classical Mind Newsletter for September 2024
The Rediscovery of Nietzsche, "The giver (for Berdis)", What is Dialectic Anyways?, The Triumph of Death, Why Children Eat Books Up
Housekeeping
Our next episode will be out this coming Tuesday on Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin. We are excited to have Dr. Anika Prather join us for that discussion!
The November episode will be Phaedo by Plato. We will be joined by a special guest for that episode as well.
“I’m Writing for People, Baby”
To hype you up for this episode about James Baldwin, just watch this short video of an interview with James Baldwin where the interviewer asserts that he writes primarily for white people:
“There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see. But there is some. There’s more than one would think.”
In Light of Our Recent Nietzsche Episode…
Over at the CiRCE Institute, Margot Nyberg has recorded a conversation between herself and a middle school student in which the student has rather unfortunately rediscovered Nietzsche.
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