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Classical Stuff You Should Know

119: Plato VII: Math till you're thirty.

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5696 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Plato finally gets us to the allegory of the cave. We find out that we're just dudes, dudes in a cave, dudes staring at a wall.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You already got your Puff?

0:11.9

All right, well, go whenever.

0:14.8

Are we on?

0:15.3

Yeah.

0:16.3

Hi, and welcome to Classical Stuff.

0:17.8

You Should Know a podcast about the ancient world, classical stuff, hence the title, and just books and things.

0:26.5

We are three guys, and we work at a classical Christian school in Austin, Texas, called Veritas Academy, and my name is Graham Donaldson. Hi. And I am here with Thomas Magby. Hello. And

0:38.9

AJ Hannanberg. Also here. And boys, it's kind of dark in here. I can't really see anything.

0:45.5

I just see like flickering shadows on the wall from AJ's laptop. And those shadows look like,

0:53.4

like, I don't know, vague impressions of things.

0:55.6

I've never seen anything else.

0:56.8

So how would you know?

0:58.5

The vague laptop flickers.

1:00.6

Well, gentlemen, I'm here to tell you that I have gone to the overworld and I've

1:04.5

come back with visions of what could be.

1:07.0

Wow.

1:07.5

And I'm here to tell you that this shadow realm you live in is trash.

1:11.1

It's all a lie?

1:11.9

It's all a lie.

1:13.2

Come with me to the overworld.

1:15.2

That doesn't make any sense.

1:16.3

I think I'll kill you.

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