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On Listening to Lectures (De auditu)

Plutarch; translated by Frank Cole Babbitt

Offers a classical account of listening, questioning and independent intellectual effort suited to scholarly conversation.

A question to carry into the reading

When does listening produce independent judgment rather than mere repetition?

Read the edition introduction and section 1, then the closing discussion of independent effort; distinguish the translator's introduction from Plutarch.

Further reading: MA-OPEN-001 · MA-OPEN-018

These are curatorial comparisons, not evidence supporting a scientific claim.

Reading and source

An ancient elite educational setting and dated translation; useful as historical thought, not empirical evidence of how AI learns.

Read at the original source

Edition, source and reuse

Edition: Loeb Classical Library, Moralia volume I (1927), pp. 201–259; Bill Thayer's LacusCurtius transcription

Rights: Host identifies the historical text/translation as public domain. No mirrored file; modern site apparatus has not received a separate reuse review.

Rights/source reference 1

On Listening to Lectures (De auditu) — Plutarch; translated by Frank Cole Babbitt. Loeb Classical Library, Moralia volume I (1927), pp. 201–259; Bill Thayer's LacusCurtius transcription. Source: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/De_auditu%2A.html. Bibliographic description and reading question by HCR; underlying work remains at its source.

Review scope: Edition/copyright note, introduction and selected body passages inspected.