Athens Corner
These are previews from my website AthensCorner.com of in-depth discussions on the Western world's greatest books in philosophy and political philosophy. There are also occasional previews for my Fathers & Sons series on the website devoted to guiding and assisting fathers who themselves want to educate their sons in the great books, and so the emphasis is upon examples of excellence of virtue.
Athens Corner
Addiction and "Depression"
This is the recording of an X/Twitter space where I discuss how addiction and "depression" have always been a defining theme of what we refer to as “philosophy” — the questioning pursuit of the good life — in everything from Homer to Nietzsche and Heidegger.
As a consequence, the discussion is about diagnosis and prognosis *without* any reference to "Big Pharma" or facile and/or extremely speculative theories of the so-called "unconscious" mind.