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Echoing down 2,500 years
Socrates challenges me: "The unexamined life is not worth living".
Actually it was Leo Mckern playing Socrates in a Radio 3 play, based on
The Trial and Death of Socrates, 25 years ago. Sadly, I've long since
lost the tape I made of that play, but the BBC In Our Time series has a
quite good programme on the
The examined life.
As
a normal Westerner I have pursued a life consisting mostly of
consumerism and hedonism: on examination I doubt I warrant more than 3
out of 10.
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The proudest achievement of my
life, apart from my dear children of course, is a letter I had published
in The Economist in 2003. The subject of this missive? A unique
contribution to the critique of capitalism.
Brew that is true. In case the link is broken, here is
the text.
In 2004/5 I worked on the Thai-Burmese and was
invited to teach a politics course. I created a website called
Political ideas.
Like most things I do, it's unfinished.
I also haven't finished a book called
The Confucian Republic
an English course called Freedom English, and a some software for the Headway
English course.
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