Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Tag: Pyrrhonism

  • The Riddle of Evil and the Pyrrhonian ‘Don’t Care’

    Today I preach upon a text from Karl Jaspers wherein he comments on St. Augustine (Plato and Augustine, ed. Arendt, tr. Mannheim, Harcourt 1962, p. 110): In interminable discussions, men have tried to sharpen and clarify this contradiction: on the one hand, evil is a mere clouding of the good, a shadow, a deficiency; on…