Socrates in Sichuan
June 08, 2011 Wednesday AT 3PM CT

 
 

Peter Vernezze went to China as a Peace Corps Volunteer to get a break from teaching philosophy. But in order to understand his students, he went back to teaching the nature of truth and the ideal of the good life, discovering in the process a side of China we rarely get to see.



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  • Peter Vernezze, Professor of Philosophy at Weber State University and writer; author of Socrates in Sichuan: Chinese Students Search for Truth, Justice, and the (Chinese) Way
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