I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekiniena show.

So Thomas and I are going to start a new series tonight.

And coming off some talks that we've been having over on the Inquisition podcast with Astral and Stormy, talking about Francis Parker Yaki, you know, Thomas mentioned after one of the episodes after we had stopped recording, you know, we're talking about basically continental philosophy. And, you know, continental philosophy is something that you study your whole life and you still struggle with. So I asked Thomas if he'd be willing to you know start a series see how long it goes

and he said yes so um thomas the floor is yours how are you i've done well thanks for

hosting me.

I'm going to have to jump around a bit to make clear what we're talking about. And something that's important to acknowledge is that philosophy used to be a unitary discipline.

When a discrete political philosophy branched off from that,

in my opinion, that owed to the Peloponnesian War in Thucydides was the first political philosopher, in my opinion.

West Point types, traditionally, as well as in the Cold War, like strategic studies and political science types, they put a premium on Thucydides.

I think they misunderstand him.

They like to claim Thucydides with the first political realist.

That's not true.

I understand why they think that.

But it's not just the superficial reading of owing to his deliberate reticence, it's also a misunderstanding of the context of what the source is of what we're talking about is an intellectual tendency.

And I should probably, so I'm going to begin ourselves into discussion by talking about Thucydides,

which is going to dovetail into a discussion of Socrates, because obviously the Peloponnesian war is the reason why Socrates was executed.

I agree with Sorrell. Socrates deserved to be executed. That's a minority position. But if you're on the right, I don't see how you cannot abide that.

You know, Socrates was not one of the good guys.

But, abide that you know socrates was not one of the good guys um but i'm going to start through cittities and then dovetail into socrates on the next episode but i think i should

start with something of an explanation as to why political philosophy is important

and basically what the political right, like how it is situated

with respect to these sorts of intellectual tendencies.

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