My wife and I will be working for Wheatstone Academy this summer, a summer program designed to help students discover the riches of the Christian mind. To help in that project, Wheatstone traditionally has students read a dialogue by Plato before they arrive, as having a text in common is crucial to having excellent discussions. As this is most students' first introduction to Plato, we provide them a brief apologia for reading it and a primer to help them wrestle with it before they arrive.
This year, rather than reading one dialogue, we are reading a compilation: , which includes the entirety of the Euthyphro, the Apology and the Crito, and a fragment of the Phaedo. In what follows below the fold, I offer my first draft for my apologia for wrestling with Plato and a few questions to think about when reading this excellent compilation.
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Matthew Lee Anderson
Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.
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