PREMIUM-Episode 18: Plato: What Is Knowl...

Mark's Partially Examined Life co-host Seth joins us (i.e. Mark and Mary) to introduce Seth to improv and continue introducing philosophy to Mary. We discuss Seth's attraction to depressing texts, act out couples' therapy and monster beauty parlor, and open up a few philosophical ... Show More

On A Short History of Decay (1949), a pessimist/existentialist somewhat text from the most famous Romanian philosopher. Cioran's short essays touch on art, humor, God, salvation, time, nostalgia, mourning, death, disease, suicide, revolt, freedom, Buddhism, Daoism, and the role o ... Show More

For our Emmys/back-to-school episode, we cover the pinnacle of the current network sitcom landscape: The six-time 2025 Emmy nominated 4-year-old sitcom Abbott Elementary. Yes, it lost this year but has won in the past. Mark, Lawrence, Al and West-Philly-resident Sarahlyn discuss ... Show More

The Meno and Plato's theory of recollection 

Virtue and knowledge in Plato's Charmides and Euthydemus 

Philosophy of language and Heraclitean flux in Plato's Cratylus 

The life, times and dialogues of Plato 

In this week's episode, we learn about Plato's "Symposium", which you might think of as philosophy's version of fan fiction. We also learn about Plato's "Theory of Forms" and ask ourselves what makes a tree, well, a tree. This leads to discussion of Plato's famous "Allegory of th ... Show More

Raphael Woolf discusses Socrates as presented by Plato 

Plato's attack on the poets and his own use of myth in the Republic and other dialogues 

Socrates according to the comic poet Aristophanes and the historian Xenophon 

MM McCabe discusses epistemology and virtue in Plato 

Platón fue un filósofo griego antiguo nacido en Atenas durante el período clásico, fundó la Academia, una escuela filosófica donde enseñó las doctrinas filosóficas que más tarde se conocerían como platonismo. Junto con su maestro, Sócrates, y su alumno Aristóteles, Platón es una ... Show More