
135 | Shadi Bartsch on Plato, Vergil, Confucius, and Modernity
From Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Published 2/22/2021

From Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Published 2/22/2021
In our postmodern world, studying the classics of ancient Greece and Rome can seem quaint at best, downright repressive at worst. (We are talking about works by dead white men, after all.) Do we still have things to learn from classical philosophy, drama, and poetry? Shadi Bartsch offers a vigorous…