Andy Fitch interviews Melissa Lane, author of "Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living."
Seeing Ideas as Operative: Talking to Melissa Lane
Dialogue Diary > Plato Problems
If Platonic dialogues helped to invent philosophy as we today understand the term, why doesn’t (or does?) current philosophical practice find itself flooded with questions, collaborations, public performances, polyphonic poetically narrativized quasi-fictions? I wondered so long that I finally started asking some of my favorite Plato-reading philosophers, political scientists, and historians. Their thoughtful, generous, self-questioning responses have helped me to recognize how central constructive civic discussion remains even in (or perhaps especially in) our ever-more polarized present. By Andy Fitch.
A Two-Way Street: Talking to Josiah Ober
Andy Fitch interviews Josiah Ober, Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics at Stanford University, who studies the contemporary relevance of the political thought and practice of the ancient Greek world.
