Tag: Unsettled Time

• May 23, 2013

  Who are the teachers of virtue and inquiry?

  ‘If virtue can be taught,’ Socrates asks time and time again, ‘then who are the teachers of virtue?’ Yesterday I argued: 1. If we are living through unsettled time, it follows that inquiring is the most important genre of discourse. 2. We are living through unsettled time. 3. So, inquiring is the most important genre.…
• May 22, 2013

  ‘I don’t know… Let’s find out.’

  Earlier this week, one conversation partner asked me to give him a better account of the art of inquiry. I replied that a certain genre of discourse would arise and would be suitable for a certain age. Panegyric and encomia would arise during, and be suitable for, a heroic age, since the poet’s job would…
• February 14, 2012

  On the 3 most important virtues for unsettled time: Patience, courage, and phronesis

  Lately, I’ve been speaking with a number of conversation partners about what I’ve found to be the three most important virtues for unsettled time. Recall that our old way of life that has gone under or is the midst of collapse. Observe that a new, more flourishing way has yet to be immediately visible. You…