The Grape Vine Story My dad has this grape vine that he has been cultivating carefully for the past five years. Prior to planting the seed, he dug a little two feet deep plot, picking out jagged rocks, broken pottery, and gnarled roots in the process. He then filled the freshly dug plot with store …
If you know me, you know I like to read, from classics to fantasy to historical fictions to YA to travel books to Christian to sci-fi to news to even research papers (ok, I only include this last one because they’re assigned, but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy them). Basically, this means I’ve picked …
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Since this quarter’s started, I’ve been caught in a flurry of discontentments ranging from Christian community in college to long-distance friendships to my failure to love perfectly to…well, the list goes on. None are trivial topics, and all have preoccupied a greater slice of my mind than I’d like to admit. Towards the middle of …
Imagine a perfect city. What are its attributes? How does one erect and maintain them? These were the exact questions that Socrates attempts to answer in Plato’s Republic, a philosophic, dialogue-structured text that investigates the attainability of justice and virtue in a state. In this post, I’m going to highlight the link between Socrates’ investigation …