I’m enjoying St. John’s, even though the math and science seminar is fairly difficult work. I started with math because I knew it was the one that would give me the most grief, and I wasn’t wrong. We started with On the Nature of Things , which is one of those books that you can tell is good, but a week or two isn’t…
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This is my first attempt to “think out loud” about the question I get most often: why bother reading the Classics? This is still very much a work in progress: I think people don’t consider and adapt their own beliefs often enough (see also: mental liquidity ). I consider my opinions here to be very much loosely held…