In a warm, bright room overlooking rows of trees and historic brownstones of Hamilton Heights, philosophers, professors, and philosophy students engaged in a casual and passionate discussion about Plato’s Phaedrus, a dialogue that concerns itself with beauty, love, and rhetoric. As Ancient Greek terms shot around the room with ease, the atmosphere of the small room tucked away in CCNY’s philosophy department felt closer to that of Athens circa 370 BCE than that of the technologically-riddled century we currently find ourselves in.
