May 23, 2013 ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Our Hero: Socrates in the Underworld

By Peter Lawler|2019-11-07T11:40:32-06:00May 23rd, 2013|Categories: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Books, Classics, Featured, Peter A. Lawler, Philosophy, Socrates|Tags: Nalin Ranasinghe, Socrates in the Underworld: On Plato’s Gorgias|

It is my pleasure to be able to introduce Nalin Ranasinghe’s Socrates in the Underworld: On Plato’s Gorgias to you as one of the most able, eloquent, noble, profound, and loving books ever written on Socrates. Ranasinghe restores for us the example of a moral hero who inaugurated a moral revolution in opposition to his [...]

The Dalai, the Dinosaur, and the Tao

In his inaugural lecture at Cambridge University, C. S. Lewis referred to himself as a type of dinosaur; a species of “Old Western man” that was about to go extinct in the mid-20th century. Today I had the extraordinary opportunity to spend some time watching a man who I fear might also be one of the [...]