Matthew C Dean
@MatthewCDean
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
My second book in Chinese was just published. Exploring Machiavelli’s teachings on leadership, this book aims to shed light on the authenticity of his own slant on "Socratic" education that consists, at its core, in taming the revolutionary, ambitious youth.
I’m excited to share my review of Antón Barba-Kay’s very rich and interesting book “A Web of Our Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation” in the forthcoming issue of American Political Thought: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…
😊 Forthcoming in August: Heinrich Meier's 𝘓𝘦𝘰 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘴.
University of Tulsa students have started a petition to save their Honors College and have asked me to share with my followers here. If you are inclined to support these students in their goal to recover what was lost, you can sign here: change.org/Protect_UTulsa…
Shakespeare is a dramatist who is also a great apologist of forgiveness. Forgiveness leading to reconciliation is a major theme in a lot of his plays. When forgiveness fails, death and destruction ensue.
A short piece about an issue forever on my mind: conversion. Link below.
ναὶ μὰ Δία ἡμεῖς γε, ὦ Ἑρμόγενες, εἴπερ γε νοῦν ἔχοιμεν, ἕνα μὲν τὸν κάλλιστον τρόπον, ὅτι περὶ θεῶν οὐδὲν ἴσμεν, οὔτε περὶ αὐτῶν οὔτε περὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων, ἅττα ποτὲ ἑαυτοὺς καλοῦσιν: δῆλον γὰρ ὅτι ἐκεῖνοί γε τἀληθῆ καλοῦσι. (Crat. 400d-e)
“Is it possible that Abraham’s obedient faith is a failure of the test imposed on him?” Morning coffee with a Ronna Burger lecture.
I enjoyed this interview though I feel uncomfortable posing as an expert on Confucianism. @ufhamilton substack.com/home/post/p-16…
οὗτος μὲν πανάριστος, ὃς αὐτὸς πάντα νοήσῃ φρασσάμενος, τά κ᾽ ἔπειτα καὶ ἐς τέλος ᾖσιν ἀμείνω: ἐσθλὸς δ᾽ αὖ κἀκεῖνος, ὃς εὖ εἰπόντι πίθηται: ὃς δέ κε μήτ᾽ αὐτὸς νοέῃ μήτ᾽ ἄλλου ἀκούων ἐν θυμῷ βάλληται, ὃ δ᾽ αὖτ᾽ ἀχρήιος ἀνήρ.
Is there a word for the ability of non-innovative humans to nevertheless be capable of understanding the insights of those who've come up with e.g. a mathematical formula? I don't mean something generic like "teachability", but something like a more specific "quality of…
“The twelve-step programs are bulwarks against nihilism, and their steady and consistent success among men and women of all kinds and conditions testifies to the match between what philosophers name ‘moral realism’ – the insistence that some ways to live really are better than…
Linguists hate him. Socrates’ etymology of soul is what has a nature. φυσεχη—>ψυχή (Cratylus 400b)
Did Plato read the Bible in Egypt? Augustine wonders this in City of God Book 8 Ch. 11 jstor.org/stable/pdf/290…
ὁ δὲ ἄνθρωπος ἅμα ἑώρακεν—τοῦτο δ᾽ ἐστὶ τὸ ‘ὄπωπε’ —καὶ ἀναθρεῖ καὶ λογίζεται τοῦτο ὃ ὄπωπεν. ἐντεῦθεν δὴ μόνον τῶν θηρίων ὀρθῶς ὁ ἄνθρωπος ‘ἄνθρωπος’ ὠνομάσθη, ἀναθρῶν ἃ ὄπωπε. (Cratylus 399c).
Does any discipline outrank Classics in having so many insiders who forthrightly desire to annihilate it?
Thirty eight new works have been added to the TLG. For a list, see stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/tlgauthors/pos….