Semester elective open to eleventh and twelfth graders. In the late fourth century BCE, an aristocratic youth named Plato met an eccentric stone-cutter named Socrates. This encounter produced a combustible interaction of minds that would forever change the way we understand reality. This introductory inquiry into this collaboration will entail a careful reading of the The Symposium, The Euthyphro, The Apology, The Crito, The Phaedo, and The Republic . We will finish with a reading of Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance .
Semester elective open to eleventh and twelfth graders.
We will read, ream, and mythologize our way to some unexpected answers. Semester elective for eleventh and twelfth graders.