TALKING CRITO--The great thing about a liberal arts education with a core curriculum is to be able to bring into a given class great literature from outside and discuss it intelligently.

Today in philosophy we were taling about Gyges Ring (having read the appropriate portions of Plato's Republic for class) and the Prof and I argued about Socrates' motivation to accept death at the judgement of the Athenians for about five minutes. We slipped easily from the text read for class, The Republic, to another text, Crito, without loosing the class or straying significantly from the topic.

You gotta love this education.