Pain And Socrates

About Pain And Other Ailments

Andrea Petkovic | Finite Jest | 24th April 2026

In the life of an athlete, there are injuries and there are “injuries”. There is the kind of injury that ends your season — ligament tears, muscle ruptures, broken bones. Though devastating initially, there is hope for a return with time. Then there is the other kind of injury, “the one that’s ‘not so bad’ and will ‘surely fade soon’”. This kind of injury is worse, for it can destroy the very foundation of an athlete (1,600 words)

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Socrates Is Mortal

Benjamin Ross Hoffman | Compass Rose | 26th April 2026

The Socratic method was not really a method or form of cross-examination; it was his quality of being wholly alive to the goings-on of Athenian society in a time when the Sophists were using rehearsed scripts to perform wisdom. “People had stopped being alive to each other. The ‘method’ was just how aliveness was memorialised by a city that still cared enough to be ashamed of being dead” (3,800 words)