#107 - Graeme Garrard - How To Think Politically
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Graeme Garrard is a Teacher at Cardiff University & Harvard Summer School and an author.
Why do we need politics? And who are the individuals that have most shaped the world of political thought? Today we get to find out about some of the most influential thinkers in history from Marx to Plato, Nietzsche to Machiavelli and Plato to Locke.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh yes, hello friends, welcome back to Modern Wisdom. |
| 0:04.1 | As you may be able to hear, I am suffering the depths of Freshers' Flu right now. |
| 0:09.2 | After 13 Freshers, it's not got any easier to deal with them afraid, but the show goes |
| 0:14.1 | on and the guests keep on coming. |
| 0:16.0 | We've had a number of episodes recently that have been to do with history or politics |
| 0:20.8 | and the theme continues today with Graham Garard talking about how to think politically |
| 0:26.4 | is new book, which I have to say as someone who isn't that bothered about history or politics, |
| 0:31.2 | I found really interesting. |
| 0:32.7 | So yeah, today we get to learn about the history of politics, where it came from, why it's |
| 0:37.4 | needed, and we get to talk about some really interesting writers and thinkers over the years. |
| 0:42.4 | Aristotle, Karl Marx, Machiavelli, Plato, Socrates, Nietzsche. |
| 0:47.3 | So yeah, if you've heard of these names but you haven't got to clue what they're about, |
| 0:51.0 | then you're going to get to find out the cliff notes of them today. |
| 0:54.8 | So massive thank you to everyone who has been liking and sharing a podcast over the |
| 0:58.4 | last few weeks. |
| 0:59.7 | We are closing in very rapidly on 1 million downloads, which is going to be very exciting. |
| 1:04.6 | We've got some awesome episodes coming up. |
| 1:06.7 | Lifehacks 110, Christoph popping in to talk about mental health and what it's like being |
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| 1:15.6 | So yeah, we got some big ones coming in, but for now, please welcome Graham Garard. |
| 1:24.8 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. |
| 1:38.2 | I'm joined by Graham Garard and we're going to learn how to think politically today, right? |
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