While there are multiple methods of organizing a reading of Plato’s works, I am planning to follow (generally, at least) the one presented in the chapter “Introduction to the Study of Plato” from “The Cambridge Companion to Plato,” 2nd Edition, a book that I shall also be reading along with my reading of Plato’s works themselves in order to deepen my understanding.
One of the many challenges facing those taking up Aristotle’s zoological writings, or more generally even such works as his “Physics,” is that of understanding the very different scope of his explorations and explanations from what such would be were they to have been undertaken by a modern writer. Indeed, even the very word “physics” (from the Greek φύσις) itself had a very different meaning to Aristotle and his contemporaries than how we use the word today.
Presenting the essential concepts of the study of physics using examples from the biological sciences, Prof. Aegerter opens a door into a discipline that possesses a wealth of useful information to biologists that when presented in the manner physics is traditionally presented in may not seem only tangential but downright incomprehensible (physics being often counter-intuitive as well as sometimes even counter-experiential).
Upon reading Dr. Lea David’s recent essay “The Past Can’t Heal Us; the Double Edge Sword of the Human Rights Memorialization Agenda” as published in the Cambridge University Press blog, I was immediately taken by the originality of her central thesis – that mandating remembrance of historical injustices may not only serve not to remediate […]