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What exactly is the distinction between opinion and knowledge? How do we know there is a difference? Socrates and Glaucon discuss opinion vs. knowledge in the famous Divided Line passage from Book 6 of Plato's Republic.

Join our Live Seminar on Tuesday, November 8th, 2022 at 6pm Central as we do a close reading of this fascinating image.

Quote from Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the section called "On Reading and Writing". Join Vydol, a close-reading app, to hear this passage discussed at length by world-class professors.

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We had two excellent seminars on Plato's Clitophon, and we will have our third and final discussion on this thought provoking dialogue. Join us on October 11th at 6pm Central.

Join us for our second live seminar on Plato's Clitophon.

Philosophy is a curious thing and for the curious. One’s approach to it is important. Learn to approach philosophy through close reading with us.

Join us for a live seminar on Plato's shortest dialogue: Clitophon. In this odd dialogue, Clitophon does most of the talking, and accuses Socrates of being merely exhortative to virtue, without instruction on how to be virtuous.

We will read the dialogue during the seminar. Come and practice close-reading with us! This seminar is free for all Vydol members.

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We want to understand our world, not consume it.

When we read closely, we are changed, because we now understand.

When we read poorly, we feel lots of things but don’t incorporate them - and we become merely consumers.

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To read well, one has to learn to think well. Thinking well involves masterful articulation of the mind's movements. Can you give an account of your own thinking?

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Learn the art of close-reading through demonstration. Read along with us as we study ancient and modern philosophy, literature and science.