Nica's a Jerk, but He's Not Wringing His Finger.

Nica thinks a lot of hus is really silly. And one of his philosophical tasks here and throughout his corpus, is to remind us that we're animals,. kind of vain animals, but wer animals. What nicha's after is exposing just the tremendous con t the sheer vanity of the human animal. We have this tremendous pride in our own intellectual faculties. But i don't think that he's not that sort of the socrates that some of our students get the impression of... He knows what piety is, but he's not going to tell anybody, just because he's stingy or mean.