My Introduction to Philosophy class is currently one-third of the way into
Cicero's dialogue
The Nature of the Gods
-- a work that, like many others of Cicero, I unhesitatingly endorse as a philosophical analogue to undervalued stock. It's a text that rarely gets taught in Ancient Philosophy classes, let alone Philosophy of Religion (where I taught it years back), or as a text by which to induct freshmen non-majors into the canons and practices of the philosophical profession. I s...
Published on February 24, 2013 19:30