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I reread “Laches” by Plato while I was on the treadmill today. I know: I’m a middle aged philosophy nerd. My undergrad degree is in philosophy, I still read in the subject.
“Laches” is a shortish work, about a 40 minute read. It’s a dramatic dialog Plato wrote between five characters wherein two men raise the topic of “how should we educate our two sons, how do we teach them the things we never learned growing up?”. Philosophy strikes many as some nerdy chitter chatter limited to either idealistic college freshmen or “ivory tower” professors. But I firmly believe philosophy has a lot to teach us. Many of the questions about life we’ve all been asking haven’t changed much in 2500 years. Our need to understand who we are and why we’re here and how to live a meaningful, fulfilling life hasn’t changed. The answers, honestly, haven’t changed that much either.
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