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Back to SearchS13 E2: Plato's Republic Book I - Justice
Season 13 Episode 2
Is it better to be just than unjust, and what makes something subjective? Find out as we discuss Book I of Plato's Republic, breaking down the opening discussion on old age, Polemarchus' traditional …
Published on 4 hours ago
S13 E1: Introduction to Plato's Republic
Season 13 Episode 1
Join us as we begin our discussion of one of the most foundational texts in Western history: Plato's Republic! In this episode, we talk about our prior knowledge and opinions of Plato, the historical…
Published on 1 week, 1 day ago
S12 E18: Season Finale: The Student and the University, Part 2
Season 12 Episode 18
In the end, what does Allan Bloom recommend in The Closing of the American Mind? Not much, as it turns out. After an excellent diagnosis of the problems facing American higher education, Bloom ends o…
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
S12 E17: The Student and the University, Part 1
Season 12 Episode 17
Where have Allan Bloom's descriptions of the modern university gotten us? Where have all of these philosophical trends ended up? Join us as we discuss the first half of the last chapter of The Closin…
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
S12 E16: The Sixties
Season 12 Episode 16
Why did all university professors and administrators capitulate to the insane mobs of student radicals in the sixties? Find out as we continue discussing Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Min…
Published on 1 month ago
S12 E15: Swift's Doubts & Rousseau's Radicalization and the German University
Season 12 Episode 15
What does Gulliver's Travels have to do with the development of the modern education system? Why does classical scholarship see renewed interests in periods of philosophical interest? Why spend 70 pa…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
S12 E14: The Philosophic Experience & The Enlightenment Transformation
Season 12 Episode 14
Was Socrates really all that great? What does he have to say about education, anyway? Find out as we discuss Socrates' impact on the idea and purpose of philosophy, as well as the reasons for our mod…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
S12 E13: Tocqueville on Democratic Intellectual Life & The Relation between Thought and Civil Society
Season 12 Episode 13
Can education actually exist without tradition? In the equalizing system of democracy, is education ever really valuable? Should we just give up on the whole idea of a university altogether? Join us …
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
S12 E12: Our Ignorance
Season 12 Episode 12
How do we recover Western Civilization from its current state? How do we get people to recognize that there is more to our foundations than we realize, and that America is more than just the past cen…
Published on 2 months ago
S12 E11: The Nietzscheanization of the Left or Vice Versa
Season 12 Episode 11
Marxism is boring now. So says Allan Bloom. Join us as we discuss the omnipresence of Marxism among the Left, and why the philosophy of the class struggle may not be exactly the crux of the Left, but…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago