🔒 The Poetry of Images: Aristotle for Fathers

Subscriber-only episode Here I discuss a way in which Aristotle's Poetics can provide an invaluable tool for understanding the role of great literature in our lives. This is especially important for our project here of fathers sharing great literature with their sons. Specifically, I discuss the way in which a very important passage from the Poetics is a kind of skeleton key for opening up all great literature in a way that makes it most relevant for our lives. At issue here...

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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.