Late Starts and Tragedy Quotes

I woke up too late to type out a more well-formed entry this morning. As such I have decided to share a favorite quote from Agamemnon by Aeschylus. It’s a wonderful play forming the first of The Oresteia Trilogy about the fall of the house of Atreus and the formation of the Athenian justice courts.

Appreciating the Vibe: A Note on Mood, Philosophy, and Translation

Enjoying the vibe of a person, place, or event can be a truly sublime experience. However vibing with your audience as a creator seems like an fairly recent invention for consideration in that authors from history didn’t have this concept and instead were more directly motivated by notions like fidelity to scholarship and offering meaningful

Working Through the Euthyphro: Part 1

Euthyphro is the first dialogue in the Hackett edition of Plato’s Complete Works which they explain is following the order passed onto us by Thrasyllus. This text’s primary theme is traditionally said to be the definition of piety and/or holiness. These two terms are seemingly used interchangeably in Euthyphro with no clear means for distinguishing

Early Hellenistic Foundations of Skepticism

Starting with commentary from RG Bury and referring to ancient remarks by Cicero, Sextus Empiricus, and Diogenes Laertius: the Hellenistic foundation for skepticism stems from Pyrrho of Elis (circa 360 BCE) and his disciple Timon of Philus (c 315 BCE). Just after, so called academic skepticism is said to have emerged from Plato’s Academy under