The Practical Philosopher: Getting to Sleep at Night

Who says the great philosophers aren’t practical? Here’s Plato’s imitation of Socrates description of how a good man goes to sleep at night (this from Republic IX, 571d, and 572a) I can suppose a man who has a healthy and moderate relationship to himself and who goes to sleep only after the following: first, he […]

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