Some time ago, I wrote a post about teaching Darwin’s Origin of Species with a philosopher. I considered the differences between our approaches to reading that book or any book. My philosopher friend had to confront something he’d never read, but about which I knew a reasonable amount. This time out, I’m interested in the other side of things. We’re now reading Aristotle’s On the Soul with our students, which is a book I’ve never read before. My friend has a leg up.We run a seminar style classroom for the equivalent of two fifty-minute classes: one syllabus, one set of Read more