Ep. 120: Starting With the Man in the Mirror
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
If your ship of state really is sinking, what can you possibly do about it? As we reach the conclusion of our series on Plato's Republic, psychology and politics converge upon some striking answers to this very pressing question. In this episode of Young Heretics, Spencer Klavan talks through Socrates's survey of kinds of state and kinds of people, and reveals why you should turn off your durn phone if you want to save the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody's always talking about the threats to our democracy, or even, you know, our |
| 0:05.8 | republic. |
| 0:07.0 | But what I want to ask today is who's the bigger threat to a republic, the people or the |
| 0:13.2 | elites? |
| 0:14.5 | Now, you may think that by asking that question, I'm just politically grandstanding, but |
| 0:21.8 | I'm actually not really going to talk that much at all about our present situation, except |
| 0:27.7 | by reference as a way of comparison to what I'm really talking about today. |
| 0:32.2 | And that's Republic Book 8. |
| 0:34.3 | You guys, let's do it. |
| 0:35.4 | Let's finish the Republic. |
| 0:37.5 | We have been working through on this show, book by book. |
| 0:40.4 | It's been one of our big projects together. |
| 0:43.3 | And it's been so much fun. |
| 0:44.7 | You know, one of the things that I love about this show is that as you listen to more and |
| 0:48.4 | more episodes, we kind of develop a shared vocabulary. |
| 0:52.7 | And that is one of the things that a classical education is all about. |
| 0:56.9 | You know, I always say that the show is the classical education. |
| 1:00.3 | You didn't know you were being denied. |
| 1:03.0 | And one of the things that our education system does is now that it's broken down so much |
| 1:08.8 | and over many decades, there's been this attack on the idea of a common curriculum, the |
| 1:13.6 | idea of a canon, right? |
| 1:15.7 | These things are supposedly discriminatory, or they are, you know, their racist. |
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