Simon Ravenscroft

Simon Ravenscroft is a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he is Director of Studies in Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion. His other recent publications include a long article in Modern Theology on humour, transcendence, and selfhood, which connects with some of the themes discussed in the essay above, and, somewhat differently, a sequence of haiku in the literary journal Meniscus.

Travel Notes: On Writing, Surprise and the Self Through Time

Reading Plato’s Phaedrus, we learn that Socrates disapproved of writing. The funny thing is that Plato, who was his student, felt it appropriate to write that down. Socrates saw philosophy as a living practice, an unending journey towards truth in…

Simon Ravenscroft
30 November 2024