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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 2509 Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: What to Accept, What to Discard?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Gerard Casey, professor emeritus of philosophy at University College, Dublin, wrote a massive history of political thought from a libertarian perspective, called Freedom's Progress? A History of Political Thought. Today I throw questions at him about Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, primarily related to what people who favor a free society should think about them. Book Discussed: Sponsors: &

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0:00.0

Get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the

0:06.7

elites don't want you to know. You're listening to the Tom Woods Show. Show. Hey everybody, welcome to the Tom Woods Show episode 2, 509.

0:22.6

It's been quite a while since we've spoken to our old friend,

0:25.4

Professor Jared Casey, all the way over in Dublin, Ireland.

0:28.8

He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy,

0:31.2

University College Dublin, where he was head of the department he is

0:36.4

the author of numerous books among them libertarian anarchy against the state and a book that has supplied us with a seemingly endless array

0:46.5

of topics for the Tom Wood show and that is freedom's progress with a question

0:51.7

mark a history of political thought.

0:54.6

So Professor Casey, welcome back.

0:57.0

Thank you very much, Tom.

0:57.9

Good to be here.

0:59.4

All right, let's dig in here.

1:00.7

So with your book going all the way from the beginning of thought more or less

1:06.0

practically effect where does it stop I don't remember how far up does it go gosh

1:11.6

i suppose seventies or 80s.

1:13.6

19s.

1:14.6

Yes, I went to the 20th century.

1:15.8

So it's a massive project and a massive book and a wonderful book to have,

1:21.6

partly because this material can be rather dense and can be

1:27.1

presented in a way that's quite boring. However, Professor Casey has never been

1:32.0

called either dense or boring.

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