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Escape Your Cave: Plato
Escape Your Cave: Plato
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Learn To Live Well: Aristotle
Do Your Duty: Kant
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
The Apology of Socrates
Embrace the Absurd: Kierkegaard
Disagreement and Diversity: J.S. Mill
On Liberty FAKE
Create Yourself: Jean-Paul Sartre and James Baldwin
Utilitarianism: John Stuart Mill
Work and Identity: Karl Marx and Max Weber
Make Friends: Aristotle
Escape Your Cave: Plato
The Elenchus
Setting the Scene
Resisting the Truth
Adapting to the Truth
Choosing the Truth
Facing Resistance for Embracing the Truth
The Divine Nature of Truth
Truth as a Transformation
Impossible Return to Darkness
The Purpose of Education
Truth-Seeking is a Virtue
Find Your Balance
Sharing the Truth with Others
Meditations: Marcus Aurelius
God and Suffering: Fyodor Dostoyevsky