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Reading: 7 July-13 July 2013 ZiR

July 7, 2013 by William Eaton

William Eaton, Zeteo Editorial Adviser [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 7 July 2013 Reading various things in the process of preparing an essay on Plato’s dialogue Lysis, the foremost subject of which is φιλία (philia), which in this context has traditionally been translated as “friendship.” Thus a week of readings related to friendship beckons. A first bit—or salvo—from a journal entry of Thoreau’s, November 3, 1858: Nothing makes me so dejected as […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Aristotle, cancer, desire, evil, friends, friendship, Ian Craib, Plato, success, Thoreau

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Finding Ourselves in Oedipus Again

April 11, 2012 by William Eaton

Finding Ourselves in Oedipus Again and Again Ten views of human agency By William Eaton [Click for pdf] This paper will explore the extent of human agency: our capacity to make effective choices, choices that advance our true interests. It will do this by considering at least ten different readings of Sophocles’s Οἰδίπουσ Τύραννοσ (Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus the King or Oedipus Rex). Interposed between the readings will be contemporary examples of agency, or of our lack thereof, and discussions of […]

Categories: Article, Spring 2012 Issue • Tags: Aristotle, choice, ethics, Freud, Oedipus, Sophocles

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