Category: letters
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Thinking is a conversation that the soul has with itself
Dwight, this made me think of you: I take my cue from something Socrates says in the dialogue Theaetetus. “Thinking,” he says, “is a conversation that the soul has with itself”(189E). Let me approach what Socrates says by saying what writing at St. John’s is not. Writing for us is neither a technique to be […]