As promised at the conclusion of the first post, I will jump back to “the beginning” and explore—helpfully, I hope, if not fully or extensively–where the phrase and the notion, “know thyself,” came from and something of its history.  As I have been guilty of doing before, let me preview “the conclusion of the matter”…

While it will soon be obvious that I won’t be able to “cover the waterfront” on this topic, I’ll do my best to see what’s going on under a few of the “umbrellas” scattered along the beach.—and try to see that you don’t get hit by a “flying metaphor!” In each case, I will attempt…