Neel Burton

Jan 19, 2025 | compliancepodcastnetwork.net | David Shaw |Jennifer Sherman Roberts |Andrew Cooper |Neel Burton

In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that would interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone who might be curious. These could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest Tom. This month of January, we will review the top books in some key areas of modern business ethics from the Ancient Greeks.

Dec 10, 2024 | neelburton.com | Neel Burton

Should free speech be curbed to promote a more inclusive society? Once, upon being asked to name the most beautiful of all things, Diogenes the Cynic (d. 323  BCE) replied parrhesia, which in Greek means something like “free speech” or “full expression”. In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle (d. 322 BCE) says that parrhesia is a trait of the magnanimous or great-souled man, the megalopsychos.

Oct 10, 2024 | neelburton.com | Neel Burton

In the Genealogy of Morality (1887), Nietzsche calls Plato ‘the sincerest advocate of the beyond, the great slanderer of life.’The dichotomy between appearance and essence, and the devaluation of the world of appearance, is rooted in pre-Socratic philosophy. Just as Plato leant upon Heraclitus’s flux for his conception of the sensible world of appearance, so he leant upon Parmenides’ unity for his conception of the intelligible world, which he rendered as the ideal, immutable realm of the Forms.

Oct 7, 2024 | books2read.com | Neel Burton

Sign up now to get the most out of Books2Read We're always making new tools to help you discover, save, and share your favorite books. Sign up now to get updates whenever we release new features!We're always making new tools to help you discover, save, and share your favorite books. Watch your email for exciting announcements and new features coming soon!Dr Neel Burton FRSA is a psychiatrist, philosopher, and wine-lover who lives and teaches in Oxford, England.

Oct 6, 2024 | neelburton.com | Neel Burton

I am just back from a pilgrimage to Athens, the city of Athena, Socrates, and Zeno. Last time I visited, in 1996, I was a mere seventeen, and just out of school. So this time, I saw it with very different eyes—showing that we see not only with our eyes but also with our mind. Athens too has changed: many of the museums I visited, such as the Acropolis Museum, had not even been built.