This passage makes a troubling read when you consider that power masquerading as morality still dominates international relations. When the rule of law is rendered subservient to geopolitical and economic domination, humanity's lack of ethical progress is laid bare.
I was rudely interrupted half way through the book by a bout of flu. Done now though. It reads like a thriller. I'd read Plato and Thucydides for the first time in 2025 and this felt like a brilliant companion piece. I cant place it myself. The structure is brill. Interrupting the action at key points with explanations about modern CBT and the Socratic method ratcheted up the tension.
Ive sent a copy to my pal that's not read any classics or philosophy but loves historical fiction. I'm looking forward to his feedback.
I came across the technique of Illeisim in an excerpt for this book over Autumn. Reading it here in context, I think it has been the most useful tool I have acquired in self assessment.
If modern therapy techniques can take much from ancient Socratic methods, then the modern political discourse can learn much from the terror and suffering that Sophistry caused by undermining experts and subverting truth. I was aware of disdain for the sophists, but It was only on reading this book, that I realized how dangerous they were.
Wild to say this was my favorite book you’ve written thus far considering how great the other ones were.
This passage makes a troubling read when you consider that power masquerading as morality still dominates international relations. When the rule of law is rendered subservient to geopolitical and economic domination, humanity's lack of ethical progress is laid bare.
I was rudely interrupted half way through the book by a bout of flu. Done now though. It reads like a thriller. I'd read Plato and Thucydides for the first time in 2025 and this felt like a brilliant companion piece. I cant place it myself. The structure is brill. Interrupting the action at key points with explanations about modern CBT and the Socratic method ratcheted up the tension.
Ive sent a copy to my pal that's not read any classics or philosophy but loves historical fiction. I'm looking forward to his feedback.
I came across the technique of Illeisim in an excerpt for this book over Autumn. Reading it here in context, I think it has been the most useful tool I have acquired in self assessment.
If modern therapy techniques can take much from ancient Socratic methods, then the modern political discourse can learn much from the terror and suffering that Sophistry caused by undermining experts and subverting truth. I was aware of disdain for the sophists, but It was only on reading this book, that I realized how dangerous they were.
Going in for the Next How to Think book.
How fitting to publish this post not even a week before the current Venezuela conflict...
Am I missing the poetic justice somewhere? Were the Melians somehow revenged by history later?