Playing With Pointers

I graduated out of high school an idiot. I hadn’t read anything, seen anything or heard anything (Everybody anyone?). Now that I’m becoming moderately literate in such things, I think I can make a generalization — the information content (sorry Dr. Shannon, I’m going to abuse that term here) of an art form is inversely [...]

Glaucon comments that there are three classes of good things: things which are good in themselves (simple, harmless pleasures), things which are good because they have good consequences (exercise, timely health checkups) and things which are good for both the above reasons. Socrates says he’d like to place justice in the third category — “which [...]