Monthly Archives: January 2013
Our text is King’s “The Letter from Birmingham Jail” – an “open letter” of April 16, 1963. I indicate where my commentary ends by using our writer’s avatar where the primary text begins:
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Our selections come from Hume’s 1748 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding I indicate where my commentary ends by using our writer’s avatar where the primary text begins:
Our selections come from the common Jowett translation of Plato’s Republic. For further study, I recommend C.D.C. Reeve’s better, albeit non-free, translation for Hackett Publishing, from 2004. Numerals styled like thisreflect 16th century “Stephanus pagination”, still standard for references. I’ve inserted speaker-labels (e.g., Socrates) to indicate the flow of dialogue — even in cases where Socrates is reporting what the speaker said. Once characters are established, I thin them out. I indicate where my commentary ends by using our writer’s avatar where the primary text begins: