Ascend Written Guides

83 Questions & Answers on Dante’s Inferno

A massive 36 page guide to Dante’s masterwork

Oct 29 • Ascend Book Club

10 Question Guide on Plato’s Ion

A conversation on techne and the divine

Oct 28 • Ascend Book Club

On the Lie: 8 Question Guide on Hippias Minor

Socrates and Hippias discuss the Iliad

Oct 28 • Ascend Book Club

11 Question Guide to Plato’s Lovers

An exploration of “What is Philosophy?”

Oct 27 • Ascend Book Club

15 Question Guide to Plato’s Hipparchus

A short, strange, forgotten dialogue on “love of gain.”

Oct 25 • Ascend Book Club

37 Questions on Plato’s Gorgias

On war, rhetoric, and the purpose of life

Oct 8 • Ascend Book Club

12 Page Guide on Plato’s Phaedo

Exploring the death of Socrates

Oct 7 • Ascend Book Club

12 Questions on Book One of the Republic

How to read the opening of the most important text in Western philosophy

Oct 3 • Ascend Book Club

A 15 Question Guide to Plato’s Crito

A dialogue on law, piety, and justice

Sep 23 • Ascend Book Club

30 Question Guide to Plato’s Apology

Explore one of the best speeches in Western history

Sep 20 • Ascend Book Club

25 Question Guide on the Euthyphro

A thorough exploration of Plato’s dialogue on piety

Sep 19 • Ascend Book Club

20 Question Guide on Plato’s First Alcibiades

The historical starting point for new students of Plato

Sep 15 • Ascend Book Club

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