Mark Anderson is Professor of Philosophy at Belmont University. He specializes in Plato and Nietzsche, and he writes about these figures to reflect on the practice of philosophy as a way of life. He is the author of Moby-Dick as Philosophy: Plato – Melville – Nietzsche; Zarathustra Stone: Friedrich Nietzsche in Sils-Maria, August 1881; and Diamythologômen: A Philosophical Portrait of a Philosopher Philosophizing.