David Leibowitz, The Ironic Defense of Socrates. Plato’s Apology

the reading of socrates works according to the tragedy of aeschylus (review on apology)

the current study aims to examine the relationship of socrates with classic tragedy and assess these two cases. the rise of poetic tragedy in the form of dramas of “aeschylus” was accompanied with periods of enhancement of socrates. socrates got familiar with the dramas of aeschylus in his youth in athen. being inspired by the religious content of tragedy based on fate, justice and righteousnes...

Beyond apocalypse and apology: a moral defense of abortion.

The movement to preserve and advance reproductive freedom is suffering the consequences of a great victory. The establishment of the constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade was a monumental step that changed the lives of American women. Girls grow up today under the mantle of Roe, never having known a world in which illegal, unsafe , degrading and sometimes fatal abortions were the norm...

In Defense of a Broad Conception of Experimental Philosophy David Rose and David Danks

Experimental philosophy is often presented as a new movement that avoids many of the difficulties that face traditional philosophy. This article distinguishes two views of experimental philosophy: a narrow view in which philosophers conduct empirical investigations of intuitions, and a broad view which says that experimental philosophy is just the colocation in the same body of (i) philosophica...

The Apology

This is the second issue featuring a selected piece from the Yale Internal Medicine Residency Program's Writers' Workshop. The annual workshop began in 2003. Abraham Verghese and Richard Selzer, among the best known physician-writers in the United States, have served as workshop leaders, teaching the craft of writing to more than 35 residents. In designing the workshop, Anna B. Reisman, assista...

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