Philosophy

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With John Castro

Friedrich Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy argues that ancient Greek tragedy achieved a perfect synthesis of the formal and orderly with the intuitive and chaotic, a civilization's vitality shown by its art, until Socrates ruined it, with guest John Castro.

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With William H. F. Altman

William H. F. Altman's Ascent to the Beautiful (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) completes a five-volume reading order of Plato's dialogues, defending Alcibiades Major against Schleiermacher's rejection of it.

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Book II builds on Book I's link of virtue and happiness, asking how children are educated toward virtue and instilled with a sense of it, centring on judging the pleasure and pain that motivate behaviour.

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With Adam Rose

Plato's Phaedrus has Socrates and his friend Phaedrus discuss Platonic love in the countryside, where Socrates critiques a speech by the orator Lysias claiming that love is harmful, then delivers a myth about the spiritual benefits of loving.

Part of The Ancient Philosophy Podcast

With Monte Johnson

Monte Johnson discusses reconstructing Aristotle's lost Protrepticus with Doug Hutchinson from excerpts preserved by later authors and papyri fragments, work he calls part of a wider loss: 99% of ancient Greek literature.

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Book III opens with natural cataclysms and the emergence of early human communities, and turns to concord between the extremes of pain and pleasure and reason, education, proportion and a common sense of virtue among citizens.

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With Alec Bianco

Alec Bianco and the Athenian Stranger join Dcn. Harrison Garlick to introduce Plato's Phaedo, on the soul, with a deep dive into its opening allusion to the myth of Theseus.

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Book IV has the Athenian, Clinias and Megillus discuss virtuous leadership for the new colony's establishment, where the Athenian holds God, defined in Book X as Reason and the universe's origin, to be the measure of all.

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Socrates and Protarchus open the Philebus by distinguishing the one from the many in categorization, seeking the ratio of knowledge to pleasure in the good life through number and calculation.

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The Statesman's Visitor from Elea likens statesmen to herdsmen directing followers' souls, discussed alongside Robert Kennedy's 1966 Ripple of Hope speech and whether any natural separation exists between ruler and ruled.

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The Visitor from Elea distinguishes being, an eternal changeless realm, from becoming, the continuously changing physical world, and the group revisited Socrates's proposition in the Phaedo that that which is not is unspeakable and unthinkable.

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Professor Kozlowski turns from Plato's Republic to Aristotle's Politics, covering assumptions about government and how revolutions, demagogues and dissension can undermine democracies, oligarchies and tyrannies.

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Plato's Pod begins its series on the Laws with Book X's cosmology, where the unnamed Athenian argues the immaterial soul is older than physical matter and therefore the primary cause of all motion.

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Concluding the Sophist, the Visitor from Elea argues that is not means only different from that which is, so many differences exist within one form of existence, with the host offering his own definition of the forms.

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With Johnathan Bi

Deacon Harrison Garlick, the Athenian Stranger, and Johnathan Bi open the Gorgias, where an inquiry into rhetoric between Socrates and Gorgias erupts into a war for the soul of Athens.

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The final meeting on the Laws covers Book XII's Nocturnal Council, guarding the virtue of Magnesia's citizens and leaders, and revisits Book X's claim that Reason sits at the very centre of the universe.

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Wrongly convicted and facing execution in two days, Socrates tells Crito in Plato's dialogue that it is not right to take the laws into his own hands after benefiting from Athenian society for seventy years.

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Concluding Plato's Phaedo, which ends with Socrates's execution, the group asks whether the mind causes physical outcomes, and Socrates argues the soul, as the Form of life, is deathless and eternal since life's opposite is death.

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With Brett Larson

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, Dr. Brett Larson, and Thomas Lackey draw on Plato's First Alcibiades and the Meno to discuss education and the teacher as a lover of the soul.

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With Ana Sandoiu

Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics closes with books eight through ten on friendship, asking with guest Ana Sandoiu what friendship has to do with living an ethical life.

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Aristotle's De Anima or On the Soul, from around 350 BCE, turns in book three to the intellect's highest part, nous, a form of forms that is literally nothing until it thinks and survives death as a universal mind.

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Book VI has the Athenian, Clinias and Megillus design a mixed democratic and monarchical government for Magnesia, with every citizen choosing the Guardians of the Laws through rigorous vetting while Crete oversees the new colony's founding.

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Timaeus, from 48(a), introduces Necessity as a container for the limits of Becoming and the four elements of earth, fire, water and air, raising whether physical objects or intelligence came first in the universe.

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Plato's Sophist is read for its method of continuous division of expertise into opposites, with the Visitor from Elea warning that the worst ignorance is not knowing yet thinking that one knows.

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In the first session on Plato's Phaedo, Socrates presents the properties of the soul hours before his execution, arguing the soul exists before birth though its disintegration on death remains unresolved at 77(c).

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The second part of Plato's Phaedrus, from 257(c) to the end, asks whether speech exists to direct the soul, examining the legend of Thamus and Theuth and Socrates's call to divide a concept into kinds.

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Professor Kozlowski opens History of Social Thought with Plato's Republic, examining the opening argument and preliminary answers to the question what is justice.

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Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, from around 350 BCE, covers books six and seven, distinguishing several faculties of intelligence to explain Plato's puzzle of how a person can see the good clearly yet fail to pursue it.

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In Book IX the Athenian, Clinias and Megillus address administering justice for evil acts in Crete's new colony, proposing reasoned preambles to laws and a doctor's treatment by education, with a death penalty warranted in certain cases.

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Socrates prescribes number and calculation as the philosopher's first order of knowledge in the Republic, followed by geometry and astronomy, distinguishing the philosopher's reason from the Guardians' restricted, visible knowledge.

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Plato's Meno opens with Meno's question of whether virtue can be taught, and Socrates proclaims knowledge to be recollection and the account of the reasons why.

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Book I of the Laws argues for a constitution cultivating virtue in a new colony's citizens, unlike Crete's war-focussed constitution and the laws of Sparta, building on Book X's presentation of the universe's soul and Reason.

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With Alec Bianco

Ascend discusses First Alcibiades with Alec Bianco of the Circe Institute and the Athenian Stranger, calling it the best place to start with Plato.

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Aristotle's De Anima or On the Soul, from around 350 BCE, opens with books one and two, defining life as the first actuality of a natural body with organs, so bodies express their nature only when growing and reproducing.

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Passages 412(b) to 445(e) of the Republic cover Socrates, Adeimantus and Glaucon on the guardians and auxiliaries who protect the city, then the four virtues sought first in the city and then in the soul.

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Season two opens on the Republic's allegory of the cave, simile of the sun, nature of the good and divided line at 502(d) to 521(b), recalling the question raised in the Theaetetus, whether man is the measure of all.

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Plato's Theaetetus is discussed alongside a Joy of x interview by mathematician Steven Strogatz of computer scientist Melanie Mitchell, connected to Socrates's challenge to the Protagorean belief that man is the measure of all.

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Book VII of the Laws has the Athenian, Clinias and Megillus discuss raising Magnesia's children, from the harmony of laws with customs to how appreciating number and shape can reveal collective potential in the universe.

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Socrates's claim that cities have no rest from evils until philosophers rule is examined alongside the guardians' founding myth, or noble lie, and how the soul finds knowledge of an eternal form like beauty.

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Book II of the Republic has Glaucon challenge Socrates to define justice without reference to outcomes, building a theoretical city and asking whether the Ring of Gyges would tempt anyone toward injustice.

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Plato's Theaetetus is explored through physicist Richard Feynman's account of acquiring knowledge, and the spiral of the geometer Theodorus, who joins Socrates in dialogue with the mathematician Theaetetus, raises whether Plato implies a relationship between geometry and knowledge.

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With Justin Brophy

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Fr. Justin Brophy finish Plato's Apology, discussing Socrates' defense at his trial, his thoughts on death and virtue, and the influence of Saint Justin Martyr.

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The Timaeus, to 30(d), opens with Socrates unable to picture the idealized city of the Republic in motion before Plato turns to Atlantis and Timaeus's division of the universe into Being and Becoming.

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Plato's Protagoras opens on whether virtue can be taught, with the sophist Protagoras selling his knowledge of it against Socrates's position that virtue cannot be taught, a battle of words that continues in a second part.

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Socrates in the Phaedo, at 77(d) to 98(b), argues the soul finds wisdom freed from the body's motion, and distinguishes composite visible objects from the soul, which is noncomposite and invisible.

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The final session on the Republic examines Socrates's proof of the soul's immortality and the myth of Er, asking whether justice originates in the soul before the city and whether time is cyclic.

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Plato's Charmides is read for Socrates's words that living scientifically was not enough without the one science of good and evil, asking whether knowledge of all knowledge, including of non-knowledge, is logically possible.

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With Michael Fitzpatrick

James Myers and Michael Fitzpatrick discuss modern Platonist Alain Badiou's philosophy of the event, connecting his ideas on truth, choice and exception to today's polarized politics and Plato's allegory of the cave.

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The second half of Book I has the Athenian, Clinias and Megillus conclude that mastering pain and pleasure through self control and courage equips Magnesia's citizens both to govern and be governed.

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The second half of Book X sets out reason as the primary cause of the universe, and debates the death penalty for a citizen who, after every attempt at explanation and reconciliation, refuses to acknowledge reason as a god.

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Plato's Critias tells of Atlantis, a wealthy society descended from the god Poseidon that lost its harmony to material wealth and brought upon itself the punishment of Zeus, disappearing in a great earthquake 9,000 years earlier.

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Socrates holds virtue unteachable while Protagoras claims qualifications as its teacher, and the session asks whether virtue is a single entity or a range of connected attributes, and whether all knowledge is recollection as Socrates stated in the Meno.

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Plato's Critias asks whether Atlantis's cataclysmic fall nine millennia earlier was real or a model civilization warning against the lust for possessions, drawing parallels to the Meno, Timaeus and Phaedrus.

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Book XII of the Laws has the Athenian, Clinias and Megillus propose scrutineers who review but do not legislate, to oversee Magnesia's Guardians of the Laws and guard the colony against foreign influence.

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Book XI shifts tone from Book X to the Athenian's thirty-three laws on trade and property in Magnesia, including a harsh penalty letting any passer-by over thirty beat a seller who quotes two prices in a day.

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The Timaeus passages from 53(a) to 72(d) cover sensory perception, triangles and the five Platonic solids that Plato revealed 2,400 years ago, with a question raised about a triangle at the sphere's very centre.

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Speeches by Aristophanes, Agathon and Socrates relating Diotima's wisdom raise whether love is the mortal search for the universe's immortality, expressed between humans and by philosophers as lovers of wisdom.

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Concluding the Protagoras, the sophist argues virtue is not a matter of knowledge while Socrates concludes it is, contradicting his own earlier view that virtue is unteachable in what Socrates calls a topsy-turvy result.

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Concluding the Philebus, Socrates ranks measurement first among skills and distinguishes the philosopher's arithmetic from everyday mathematics, touching on the values of zero and one-half in the soul's recollection of unity.

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In Plato's Statesman the Visitor from Elea equates ruling with fabric-weaving, measuring the fabric to its mean between extremes, discussed alongside a legislator's vow that hate will lose.

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In Plato's Ion, Socrates tells the poet Homer's proponent Ion that since Homer represented an idea, Ion represents Homer's representation, comparing the divine power moving souls to a magnetic stone drawing iron rings.

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Socrates and Protarchus open the Philebus by concluding the good life consists of a mixture of knowledge and pleasure, and the question becomes the ratio of that mixture, in which the soul applies calculation, reason and memory.

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The first session on Plato's Parmenides has Parmenides and Xeno train the young Socrates in dialectic to identify a first principle, raising the third man argument's infinite regress in logic.

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Plato's Euthyphro, about to prosecute his own father for impiety, prompts Socrates to mention his accuser Meletus, raising the Euthyphro dilemma: is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or pious because it is loved.

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The first part of Plato's Timaeus, to 47(e), discusses the creation of the intelligent universe, with the logical flow that begins at 28(a) of the dialogue reviewed early in the second episode.

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Timaeus, from 30(d) to 47(e), explains a universe centred on the soul, distinguishing the timeless realm of Being from the physical realm of Becoming while participants compared today's atomic model to his spherical universe.

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Professor Kozlowski completes Plato's Republic, covering equality for women, communal child-rearing, the Allegory of the Cave, and how governments fall apart, and the Myth of Er.

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Continuing from 28(a) to 33(d), Plato's Timaeus turns to the shape of the physical universe observable by intelligence, with Timaeus naming three types at 50(d): that which comes to be, that in which, and that after which.

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Professor Kozlowski follows Socrates through Plato's Republic as government grows from its earliest organization into a state of luxury, with a tangent on the Laws of Lycurgus that influenced Plato and Aristotle.

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The drunken Alcibiades erupts in love for Socrates as Plato's Symposium closes with the practical after six abstract speeches, and the discussion compared Alcibiades to the prisoner in the cave of the Republic.

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Plato's Greater Hippias contrasts the boastful sophist Hippias's claimed intelligence with the Cratylus's definition of wisdom as knowledge of motion, showing Hippias's illogical attempt to measure fine and foul in physical objects.

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With Pavlos Papadopoulos

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos discuss Plato's Crito, set in Socrates' prison cell, exploring his refusal to escape and his debt of gratitude to Athens.

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With Joey Spencer

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, Thomas Lackey, and Dr. Joey Spencer open Plato's Euthyphro, a dialogue on piety, discussing piety as a political problem.

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Plato's Sophist has a character called the Eleatic Stranger, not Socrates, use a method of division to work out what a sophist really is, after describing sophists as teachers of philosophy and rhetoric in Ancient Greece.

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With Christopher Robertson

Christopher Robertson, author of The Hero and the Man and creator of the course Understanding Homer, discusses Homeric archetypes and the legacy of Achilles and Odysseus: why have these stories survived nearly three thousand years?

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Three speeches on love among Plato's hungover Athenians at the symposium are examined for a common thread, asking whether love is a god that rules over humans or one that humans are free to fashion.

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Deacon Harrison Garlick and Alex of the Cost of Glory podcast discuss Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades, calling its subject a real-life Odysseus with all the same twists and turns.

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Professor Kozlowski opens his encomium of Plato's Symposium with Greek cultural assumptions behind love, through the speeches of Phaedrus, Pausanias, Erixymachus and Aristophanes.

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In Book V the unnamed Athenian alone addresses Clinias and Megillus on the soul as master over the body, moderating pains and pleasures, and ends with the proposal that 5,040 is the ideal population of a community.

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Professor Kozlowski completes his encomium of Plato's Symposium, discussing how the love affair of Socrates and Alcibiades may have endangered Athenian civilization.

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Concluding the Statesman, the Visitor from Elea describes a ruler who harmonizes courage and temperance, and the episode asks whether such a ruler should be constrained by older laws, alongside Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

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Socrates examines the perception of being without limit in the names applied to the gods, and the group asks whether anything stands fast or all is flux, as Heraclitus believed, and tests the word democracy.

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With Michael Fitzpatrick

James Myers and Michael Fitzpatrick relate the Republic, the Laws, the Statesman and the Meno to leadership, education, wealth and social cohesion in a technologically powered world of 8 billion people, seeking a path to the common good.

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The fifth episode discusses Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, Books I and II, the only part of that text this episode takes up.

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With Daniel Wagner

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Daniel Wagner discuss Plato's Meno, contrasting Meno's stagnant, power-seeking sophistry with the slave boy's rapid learning in the famous geometry demonstration.

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Socrates and Protarchus search in the Philebus for the causes of the soul's pleasure, distinguishing memory experienced with the body from recollection experienced by the soul alone, and asking where reason finds the common element.

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Concluding three sessions on the Cratylus, the group traces Socrates's assertion that a proper account of the meaning of complex ideas exchanged by language requires knowledge of an object's nature and its uses in different times of human convention.

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Professor Kozlowski turns from eros to philia in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics VIII, discussing the three species of friendship and how friendship relates to government.

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The third of Sophocles' Theban Plays, Antigone is a timeless, dark story about a clash of wills and also a snapshot of the philosophical brawls of 5th-century BCE Athens.

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With William H. F. Altman

William H. F. Altman's Plato the Teacher (Lexington, 2012) puts the Allegory of the Cave at the center of Plato's teaching order, alongside the examples of Socrates and Cicero.

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With Erik Rostad

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Erik Rostad, and Dr. Grabowski discuss Plato's Ion, subtitled On the Iliad, where a victorious rhapsode claims to speak more beautifully about Homer than any other person.

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Professor Kozlowski works through Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics IX, discussing the self-destructiveness of viciousness and how friendship is shaped by attitude and perspective, and the relationship of self to friend.

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Season two concludes on Plato's Parmenides and its claim that if the one is not, nothing is, exploring the instant of time when neither change nor rest exist through an analogy to quantum superposition.

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With Joey Spencer

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Joey Spencer finish Plato's Euthyphro, exploring piety, morality, and the divine through the famous Euthyphro Dilemma.

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Plato's Cratylus is examined for the origin of names and whether words originate in nature or by human convention, asking if man is the measure and how wisdom is distinguished from foolishness.

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With Brett Larson

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Larson, Dr. Grabowski, and Thomas Lackey discuss Plato's Hippias Minor, subtitled On the Lie, a short and largely forgotten dialogue.

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A roundtable of a lawyer, two PhDs, and an independent scholar launches Ascend's study of Plato, asking who Plato was, why Christians should read Plato, and how Plato should be read.

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With Michael Fitzpatrick

Michael Fitzpatrick and the group conclude discussing Plato's Seventh Letter, where Plato never published his opinions so a soul's own thoughts must be born afresh, leaving the Meno's question of whether virtue can be taught unanswered.

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Plato's Lesser Hippias has the title character unable to separate cause and effect in the motions of time, challenging Hippias and the reader to measure the difference between truth and lie, 2,400 years later.

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Plato's Letters VI and VIII are read as a trilogy with Letter VII, where a good king is the servant of the laws and justice, and Letter VI calls on the Academy to befriend a king who respects reason.

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Professor Kozlowski discusses the underworld and afterlife myth in Plato's Phaedo, exploring how myth relates to philosophy and how Plato uses myth throughout his dialogues.

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With Lantern Jack

Mark Selleck and Jack Visnjic, known as Lantern Jack, trace ancient Greek philosophy from the pre-Socratics through Socrates, Plato and Aristotle to Stoicism, Epicureanism and skepticism in the Hellenistic period.

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Rhetoric as an art for the law courts and politics, the Sophists as lecturers traveling from city to city, the theories of Protagoras, Gorgias, Antiphon, Hippias, Prodicus and Thrasymachus, and synopses of four of Plato's dialogues.

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With Earl Fontainelle

Earl Fontainelle of the Secret History of Western Esotericism podcast joins Clif Mark to discuss whether Plato wrote esoterically, the secret meanings he may have been hiding, the divided line and the mysterious Plato math in the Republic.

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With Christopher Frey

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Christopher Frey conclude Plato's Phaedo, capturing Socrates' final hours and his arguments for the soul's immortality.

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Professor Kozlowski opens his series on Pre-Socratic Philosophy with its forerunners: Homer, Hesiod, the Orphics and Pherecydes, and the question of what does and does not constitute philosophy.

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With William H. F. Altman

William H. F. Altman's Ascent to the Good (Lexington, 2018) reads Plato's dialogues between Symposium and Republic as preparation for the Idea of the Good, unlike Aristotle's eudaemonism.

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With Michael Fitzpatrick

James Myers and Michael Fitzpatrick relate Alfred North Whitehead's perspectives to Plato's dialogues, including the Sophist, the Timaeus and the Philebus, and follow his path from ancient principles to the discoveries of Albert Einstein and Nils Bohr.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Cognitive scientist John Vervaeke explores why Platonism and Stoicism, two schools of ancient philosophy, have seen a meteoric revival as more people in an increasingly hi-tech world turn to ancient wisdom traditions.

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Celebrated for the Pythagorean Theorem, the ancient Greek thinker Pythagoras was also worshipped by some as a nearly divine figure said to communicate with animals, recall past lives and possess a golden thigh.

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With Walter Bobbie, Bill Youmans

Broadway performers Walter Bobbie and Bill Youmans perform Plato's Crito, where Socrates awaits execution and decides against escaping the city, since that would be ungrateful to the city whose benefits he has enjoyed.

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With Gregory McBrayer

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Gregory McBrayer finish Plato's Gorgias, sections 481 to 527, with Socrates confronting Callicles, whom Greg calls the nastiest character in all of Plato.

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The fourth look at chapter eight continues on sensations, anticipations and feelings, returning to anticipations with both Joshua and Don assisting in the analysis.

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With Michael Fitzpatrick

James Myers and Michael Fitzpatrick introduce Alfred North Whitehead, a mathematician who became a philosophy professor at Harvard without a philosophy degree, and whose process philosophy relates the oneness of all to the continual becoming of many.

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Professor Kozlowski discusses the opening of Plato's Symposium and its first two speeches, by Phaedrus and Pausanias, examining the context Plato gives each character.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Host Lantern Jack and scholar Gina White move book by book through Plato's Republic, from the question of what justice is to the Myth of Er, in seventy-nine minutes.

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Plato's famous lecture on the Good , with much of the discussion a reflection on Konrad Gaiser's 1980 article in Phronesis, 'Plato's Enigmatic Lecture on the Good.'

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Epicurus opens the Letter to Pythocles, a brief argument about the phenomena of the sky, whose knowledge serves peace of mind, and warns that choosing one theory where several harmonize with phenomena is recourse to myth.

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The second part on pleasure in the Letter to Menoeceus explains that freedom from bodily pain and mental disturbance, not luxury, is what the wise pursuit of pleasure actually aims at.

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Plato's best known Seventh Letter recounts his experience teaching the tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse and the philosophically minded Dion, with Plato succeeding with Dion and failing with Dionysius, a warning against rulers who do not practise philosophy.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

A crosscast conversation with Simon E. Drew tracing where the notion of moral duty comes from, built around the book The Invention of Duty.

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Seventy-five minutes on book one of the Republic, following Cephalus, Polemarchus and Thrasymachus as each tries to define justice, while Thrasymachus challenges Socrates and praises injustice.

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Plato's Apology gets discussed under the claim that the unexamined life is not worth living, asking whether studying philosophy actually makes a person better.

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Proclus appears as a sage whose privileged status is marked by inspirations, epiphanies, omens and miracles, with an oversimplified summary of some important aspects of his metaphysics.

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With David Glidden

Philosophy professor David Glidden discusses prolepsis, the Epicurean concept of anticipation or preconception, offering his own challenging take on one of the hardest parts of Epicurus to understand.

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Seventy-three minutes with psychotherapist Donald Robertson, author of How to Think Like an Emperor, on whether Marcus Aurelius was the enlightened ruler that books and films make of him and whether his brand of Stoic philosophy still applies today.

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With Barbara Sattler

Barbara Sattler's The Concept of Motion in Ancient Greek Thought (Cambridge UP, 2020) traces how Parmenides excluded motion from rational inquiry while Zeno built paradoxes against it.

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Socrates' elenchus, the method of question and answer he uses to refute his interlocturos, gets tested against the tactics of the Sophists with help from scholar Gregory Vlastos.

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With Jacob Stump

Jacob Stump joins to discuss the Stoic view of emotions, and the second half turns to objections and problems raised against that view.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

This second look at chapter seven continues on the canon, reason and nature, again on the dethronement of reason and the priority of nature over reason.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

This part of the Letter to Pythocles continues on the sun and moon, covering the waxings and wanings of the moon, the face in the moon and the eclipse of sun and moon.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

In the Letter to Menoeceus, Epicurus argues that the gods are real and immortal and blessed, and that the impious man is he who attaches to the gods the beliefs of the many.

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Socrates describes an inner daimon that only seeks to drive him away from something, a voice the guys compare to the apostle Paul's conscience in Romans, within Plato's Apology.

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Epicurus in the Letter to Herodotus on images of unsurpassable fineness of texture, which he calls idols, and on how something entering from external objects lets a person see and think of their shapes.

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Plato's Parmenides asks whether forms exist for every adjective, whether a form of a property itself has that property, how Forms connect to particulars, and how mortals can relate to Forms at all.

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Closing the series on Plato's Republic, the episode covers its last and possibly most infamous book, where Plato calls for a total shutdown on artists and Spencer Klavan discusses Plato's challenge to art.

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Reaching Book 7 of Plato's Republic, the series finally explains one of philosophy's most famous metaphors, the cave, and what Plato is saying about Athenian society, and about modern society as well.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

This first part on pleasure in the Letter to Menoeceus names pleasure as the starting point of every choice, while insisting that not every pleasure is worth choosing.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

This part works through a list of true opinions and false opinions about Epicurus, from his place in Greek philosophy to his attitude toward learning.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

This review of a key Epicurean doctrine names pleasure as the guide of life, a faculty and a criterion of truth in the overall scheme of nature, after Lucretius' line.

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This part opens chapter ten on the new freedom, from choosing and avoiding and the double choice to freedom and necessity and necessity and fortune.

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With Alec Bianco

Alec Bianco and the Athenian Stranger join Dcn. Harrison Garlick to finish Plato's First Alcibiades, picking up the conversation at 124(b) on knowing thyself.

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The Letter to Herodotus on more fundamental physics: the first beginnings are indivisible and completely solid, the universe is boundless, and the atoms move continuously for all time, some falling straight down, others swerving.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

This fifth pass through chapter twelve on the new hedonism turns to the root of all good and whether pleasure can be continuous.

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Drawing on Book IX of Plato's Republic, Spencer Klavan follows Socrates as he explores what it means to be tyrannical, enslaved to one's own desires, and how to avoid that fate.

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The episode lays groundwork for Socrates' defence speech, asking how the reign of the 30 tyrants and his connections to great men like Pericles influenced it, and what the elenchus did for ethical teaching.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

The Letter to Herodotus turns to the soul, describing it as a body of fine particles distributed throughout the whole structure, most resembling wind with a certain admixture of heat.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

The sixth part of chapter twelve continues the new hedonism discussion, turning to the impossibility of continuous pain and the relation of pleasure to virtue.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

This review of the key doctrines of Epicurus featured on the front page of the EpicureanFriends website addresses the doctrine that all sensations are true.

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With Dylan Burns

Dylan Burns, Copticist and scholar of Platonistic esotericism, discusses the Platonistic Sethian tractates and the movements behind them, covering ancient texts, methodological distinctions, cosmic catastrophe and salvation.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

University of Chicago philosopher Gabriel Richardson Lear explains book six's Theory of Forms and Plato's vision of the Good as the ultimate source of human knowledge.

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With Josiah Ober

Josiah Ober's The Greeks and the Rational (U California Press, 2022) traces practical reason to Greek sophists, historians and philosophers who also recognized its limits.

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Aristophanes' Clouds stages a debate between Superior Argument and Inferior Argument, asking whether might makes right, whether rhetoric is all there is to law, and whether Pheidippides can be trusted with logic.

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This part of the Letter to Herodotus covers the doctrine of the infinity of worlds, arguing that atoms infinite in number produce infinite worlds both like and unlike this world.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

This third pass through chapter seven on the canon, reason and nature continues with ridicule and nature as the norm.

Part of Lucretius Today - Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy

The fifth and closing part on chapter eight of Norman DeWitt's Epicurus and His Philosophy, on sensations, anticipations and feelings, completes the chapter by addressing the topic of feelings.

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This part begins chapter fourteen of DeWitt's Epicurus and His Philosophy, The New Virtues, taking up wisdom, temperance and courage.

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Plato's Crito closes out the saga of Socrates's trial and death, with Socrates defending his choice to stay and drink the hemlock and not run away.

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With Christian Hervik Bull

Christian Hervik Bull discusses the way of Hermes in antiquity in the final Hermetica-series episode, covering renunciation, immortalisation, hypercosmic ascent and animated statues.

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Sixty-four minutes moving from Mesopotamian and Egyptian skywatching into Greek astronomy, ending with Philolaus's Pythagorean model of the cosmos and the astronomical calculations of Oenopides and Meton.

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Aristophanes' Clouds mixes the lofty and the scatological, and Socrates offers to teach how making Inferior Argument stronger dodges the Christmas credit card bills that recently came calling.

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The Letter to Herodotus turns to first principles: nothing comes from nothing, nothing is destroyed into nothing, and the universe itself consists only of bodies and void.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Philosophy texts read and chatted through; only the Greek texts are indexed

With Mark Lint, Philosophy Bro

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast · The Great Books read in seasons; the Homer, tragedy and Plato seasons are indexed

With Matthew Bianco

Part of New Books in Ancient History · Scholars on their new books, interviewed by a peer; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Armand D’Angour

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast · The Great Books read in seasons; the Homer, tragedy and Plato seasons are indexed

With Justin Brophy

Part of The History of Ancient Greece · The long chronological run, from the Stone Age forward

Part of Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato · Plato dialogue by dialogue, in group discussion and with guests

With Lantern Jack

Part of New Books in Ancient History · Scholars on their new books, interviewed by a peer; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Jennifer T. Roberts

Part of Literature and History · Two-hour episodes on famous works, in order; the Greek ones are indexed here

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast · The Great Books read in seasons; the Homer, tragedy and Plato seasons are indexed

With Christopher Frey

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Philosophy texts read and chatted through; only the Greek texts are indexed

Part of The Ancient Philosophy Podcast · A philosophy professor on ancient thought worldwide; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Cecilia Li

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified · Conversations that take in Greece and the wider ancient world

Part of Greeced Lightning · Myths and movies with a doctor of classics; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of New Books in Ancient History · Scholars on their new books, interviewed by a peer; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Roslyn Weiss

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know · Three teachers on the classical world; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Young Heretics · Spencer Klavan on the great works; only the Greek episodes are indexed

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified · Conversations that take in Greece and the wider ancient world

Part of New Books in Ancient History · Scholars on their new books, interviewed by a peer; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Jill Gordon