The Quest for Character, What the Greco Romans Can Teach Us, Platform, Massimo Pigliucci, Oct 23 22 |
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Is good character something that can be taught? In 430 BCE, Socrates set out to teach the vain, power-seeking Athenian statesman Alcibiades how to be a good person—and failed. Alcibiades went on to beguile his city into a hopeless war with Syracuse, and all of Athens paid the price.
Our speaker, philosophy professor Massimo Pigliucci, asks what we can learn from this story. Drawing on Socrates and his followers among the Stoics, he aims to show how we can each lead an excellent life. |