Tuesday, August 5:Philosophy: Plato and Nietzsche

Readings: 1) Plato Selections from Meno and Republic (Introduction and blocked off text in Handout; the section between the selections in the Meno detalis the recovery of knowledge from the slave boys previous life and may interest the more mathematically-minded among you); 2) Nietzsche (Introduction and Selections from Birth of Tragedy - all in Handout)

Presentations: Plato's Myth of Er, Republic 613e-621d; (Cordelia); Plato & the Poets, Republic 376d-39sc; you may want to consider 605c-608b as well.

Resources for the Study of Philosophy:

• Timeline of Philosophers
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Curious which philosopher advocates an ethics best suited to you?. Ask the Ethical Philosophy Selector

Resources for the Study of Plato:

• Summary of the Meno
• Summary of the Republic
• Simon Weil on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
• Michelangelo’s Cumaean Sibyl in the Sistine Chapel has been understood as an allegorical representation of Plato’s tripartite division of the soul

Resources for the Study of Nietzsche:

• Summary of the Birth of Tragedy