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Friday, February 7, 2025

Antisthenes


There's a room in the Palazzo Nuovo section of the Capitoline called the Salon of Philosophers.  It is filled with beautiful busts of mostly handsome men who were, not surprisingly, almost all Greeks.  This particular philospher was Antisthenes, a disciple of Socrates who specialized in ethics.

 

3 comments:

  1. L'éthique, quelques chose qui manque dans le monde politique d'aujourd'hui, au peril du monde.
    Ethics, something that is missing in today’s political world,

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