DEJA VU: I have an unusually large number of classes involving my rereading things I've read several times. To wit:
Iliad, second time
The Republic, fourth time
Nichomachean Ethics, third time
Gorgias, third time
The Prince, fifth time
Second Treatise on Government, third time
Letter Concerning Toleration, second time
The Social Contract, fourth time
Theological-Political Treatise, second time
Discourse on Inequality, second time
...and these are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head. As my Greek Political Thought professor pointed out today, there's a certain joy that comes from reading and rereading great works, and I wholeheartedly agree.
This may be another sign that I'm well suited to be a political theory professor someday.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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