About Brad
I’m Brad Newton: a self proclaimed Philosopher, Geek, history buff, competitive shooter, amateur musician and admirer of all things Excellent.
I have started a new thread in the Great Conversation and will let it spill over into the biggest pond there is, the Internet. I hope to hear from varied and diverse individuals and look forward to a lively dialog on any topic of interest from poetry to politics, guns to Goethe and Aristotle to Zulu wars. The site name comes from a Platonic dialog, The Meno, I read as a freshman in philosophy 101. It had a profound influence on me then, and I continue to come back to it again and again. Plato has Socrates ask Meno the question: Whether Virtue/Excellence is Knowledge (arete episteme estin) or of another species? Where does virtue come from? What qualities do we value and why? What makes for a ‘good’ life? 25+ years later I still have questions and have found that others might too. I don’t have all the answers, but I do have some ideas and I think there are many people who can contribute to the conversation. I would like this site to be a resource and a channel for a continuing dialog on a myriad of topics.
