Who is the Platonic Troglodyte?

Philosophy for People Allergic to Academia. A neo-Socratic project.

The Platonic Troglodyte is a project that will document my return to the foundational texts of philosophy, working from Plato’s dialogues, through Aristotle, and back into the Patristics of first millennium Christianity.

This will not be a religious or theological project. It will be solely a philosophical one. This is much more an exercise in forcing myself to refine my ideas before integrating them, rather than leaning on my intuition as a crutch.

The major process behind this blog will be reading, analyzing, refining, and exploring these texts as they are. I aim to make no “unearned” assertions.

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