Excellent article. I was not familiar with Plato's Sicilian adventures. I agree that they tell us a lot about how philosophy is as much about practice as it abo

Excellent article. I was not familiar with Plato's Sicilian adventures. I agree that they tell us a lot about how philosophy is as much about practice as it about theory. The Greeks intentioned us to not only consider how to live well, but to actually live well -- reason in the deployment of the good life.