The Adventures Of Socrates, Super Sophist
Plato had Socrates rubbish Rhetors in the gorgeous Gorgias.
Sophists in the problematic Protagoras.
Why did author make antagonist so hostile to both practises?
Despairing Of Counsel
Law was created by and for humankind.
But is unkind to humans.
Inhumane.
As such, it deserves its day in the dock.
Truth And Justice… The American Way?
Some talk as if truth and justice are The American Way.
The nation’s principal contributions to global culture.
But all peoples have had conceptions of truth.
Forms of justice.
So, it has to be something else.
What?
Pilgrimage
No – I don’t believe in God.
But still believe in church.
Is History History?
Written history claims to be a bigger truth-teller than historical literature.
Is it fibbing?
Or has historical backcasting revealed itself to be as contingent as weather forecasting?