ICYMI: New article on Locke’s memory theory of personal identity by Todd Long! (link and abstract below)

Our lead editor @wessiscoe.bsky.social was interviewed for the Classical Commons podcast - the Library can be a great resource for classical educators!

*New Promo Video* In the coming months, we will be adding videos to our website that walk students and instructors through the resources we offer along with the benefits of reading great philosophical texts. Link below!

*New Article* Why Be Good? The City and the Soul Plato’s Republic, Book 2

*New Article* What Can I Know? Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, Preface A and B

ICYMI: New article on Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France by @tristanjrogers1.bsky.social! (link and abstract in comments)

*New Article* from Cal Poly professor Dr. Todd Long You Are Who You Remember John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book 2, Chapter 27

*New Article* The People’s Property and the Common Good Cicero's On the Republic, Book I

More money, more problems. The Institute for Humane Studies has awarded the Philosophy Teaching Library $10,000 to add articles on foundational texts in the classical liberal tradition. Now we just have to find some authors.

*New Article* Change from Within: Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (link in comments)

ICYMI: New article on immortality in Plato’s Phaedo by Dr. Athanasia Giasoumi! (link and abstract in comments)

*New Article* by Nathan Oakes of @olemiss.bsky.social What Does God Want, and Why? Plato’s Euthyphro (link below)

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Congratulations to one of our founders and Editor-in-Chief @wessiscoe.bsky.social on the new position! Can a @notredame.bsky.social academic resource stand the thought of an Ohio State based editor? Only time will tell...

*New Article* Knowing Your Own Mind Descartes’ Meditations, Meditation 2 (link below)

*New Article* by @poetryf.bsky.social Exploring Immortality in Plato’s Phaedo (link below)

ICYMI: New article on the Allegory of the Cave by Cleveland State professor Dr. Michael Wiitala! philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/alle...

*New Article* Pleasure, Happiness and the Moral Life: Mill’s Utilitarianism, Chapter 2 philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/plea...

ICYMI: New article on Epictetus’s Enchiridion from Scott Aikin! philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/stoi...

*New article* The Good Life and How to Live It: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book I philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/the-...

We're at it again. $4,000 won from @apaphilosophy.bsky.social to advertise and publicize the Philosophy Teaching Library Should be able to get exactly one ad on X for this

*New Article* Stoic Life, Perfection, and Invincibility – Epictetus’s Enchiridion philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/stoi...

ICYMI: New article on Aquinas’s Five Ways! Brought to us by Samford University’s very own Dr. Emily McCarty philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/five...

How the Library (Logo) Came to Be In the fall of 2023, the Library was awarded a grant from the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social's Berry Fund for Public Philosophy. We want to bring philosophy not just to students and instructors, but to the general public.

*New Article* Five Ways to God philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/five... Does God exist? The philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas answers this question in the affirmative, giving not one, not two, but FIVE arguments for God’s existence. Do they work? Only you can decide.

*New Article* The Allegory of the Cave philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/art.../alleg... Pursuing the truth might be uncomfortable, but Plato’s famous allegory challenges us to examine our beliefs and find out whether we have been living in the dark for all this time. Ready to leave the cave behind?

ICYMI: New Article on Leibniz’s theory of Pre-Established Harmony philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/pre-... A big thanks to Dr. @tobiasflattery.bsky.social of @wakeforest.bsky.social!

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*New Grant* The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy has agreed to bring a number of American philosophers to the Library! We will include work from the American pragmatists along with some less well-known authors, bringing the Library into the 20th century. Stay tuned!

ICYMI: New article on Is Faith Irrational? Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Contra Gentiles, Book I, Chapters 3-9 philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/is-f... A big thanks to Dr. Jeremy Skrzypek of Ohio Dominican University!

*New Article* High Fives and Pre-Established Harmony: Leibniz's A New System of Nature philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/pre-... A big thanks to Dr. @tobiasflattery.bsky.social of @wakeforest.bsky.social !

*New Article* Is Faith Irrational? philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/is-f... Mark Twain once said, “Faith is believing what you know ain’t so”. This is almost certainly meant as a joke. But, behind the joke, there is a sincere and serious critique of religious belief.

Big things happening. Keep the clicks coming.

*New Article* philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/can-... Often, when we think about living an ethical life, we think about which of our actions are right or wrong . Can we ever be in the moral wrong based simply on what we believe? It would be wrong if you didn’t read on to find out…

*New Article* philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/dont... Interested in virtue? Get it straight from the source. Katherine Sweet of #FlaglerCollege explores Aristotle’s thoughts on everything from what the virtues are to the golden mean to how the virtues interact with pleasure and pain.

More coverage of the Library, this time from @apaphilosophy.bsky.social philosophy - check it out! "A resource that professors can assign to first-year students with the confidence that those who read will be well-prepared for a class discussion the next day."

Check us out - featured today at the Daily Nous!

*New Article* philolibrary.crc.nd.edu/article/doub... You might think that you know lots of things. That it is sunny outside. That today is Wednesday. But do you really know everything you think you do? Could we be living in a dream? Could we be in the matrix? Read on to find out!