4 posts tagged “book-printing”
2026
A booklet, an audio reading and a glossary for Plato’s Crito and Phaedo
Tonight the Phil@Viv philosophy group goes back to Athens for the death of Socrates. The assigned readings are Plato’s Crito and Phaedo in G. M. A. Grube’s translation, shared by the host as a PDF on Google Drive. I wanted something I could hold, something I could listen to, and …
A booklet edition of Wolf Tivy’s “Don’t Learn Value From Society”
Wolf Tivy’s essay “Don’t Learn Value From Society” ran in Palladium on July 13, 2023. It opens with the friends from his high school who are dead or lost, and it argues that you should not take your values from the society you live in, using Abraham leaving Ur as …
The Labor of the Inhuman as a pocket reader, with a glossary and two audio readings
For the October 21 meeting of the Phil@Viv philosophy group, the reading was Reza Negarestani’s two-part essay “The Labor of the Inhuman,” from e-flux journal issues 52 and 53 (2014): Part I: Human and Part II: The Inhuman. It argues that taking humanism seriously, as a commitment to reason, leads …
A booklet for Plato’s Euthyphro and Apology
The fourteenth Phil@Viv philosophy meeting, on October 14, read Plato’s Euthyphro and Apology in G. M. A. Grube’s translation: Socrates on the way to court, cross-examining a man who is sure he knows what piety is, and then Socrates on trial for his life. The host shared the reading as …