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

What's the crisis of liberal democracy? Dylan, Wes and Seth are joined by St. John's College President J. Walter Sterling to discuss Abraham Lincoln's "On the Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions" (1838) plus the beginnings of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now (2018), Patri ... Show More

We are concluding our treatment of Peter Railton's "Moral Realism" (1984), and given that you likely haven't listened to the seven preceding parts, this discussion can serve as a standalone summary of not only Railton's view, but of the best efforts of Mark and Wes to actually fi ... Show More

I bet you’d like to have an excuse to read some Aristotle, and Locke, Rousseau, Simone Weil, and other fun texts. Well, go read about this opportunity at partiallyexaminedlife.com/class, and then follow the link to enroll. Not sure? Watch a sample (a full seminar from last semest ... 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