Building Your Library

BOOK REVIEWS: The Last Days of Socrates By Plato; The Republic By Plato; The Art and Thought of Heraclitus; Ethics By Aristotle; Essential Epicurus

See What We Do, See Our Values

IN among all the pious talk about values - Australian values, personal values, spiritual values - it might be worth reminding ourselves that there's really only one way to work out what your values are: look at how you behave. "We are," in Aristotle's famous phrase, "what we repeatedly do."

Soul Music And The Limbo Rot

MOSES couldn't believe his eyes. Plato was skipping down the hallowed halls of Limbo. Not only was he skipping, he was grinning, giggling and high-fiving everyone he passed: Abraham, Socrates, Aristotle - even Horace, although those two had never really hit it off.