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You're listening to the partially examined life I podcast by some guys who at one point

said on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 266 is something like what's the relationship between a psychology and

politics. We're reading a couple of essays about Plato from Jonathan Lears open-minded working

out the logic of the soul from 1998. For more information please visit partiallyexaminlife.com.

This is Mark Glinson-Meyer, unconsciously defending my conception of legitimate philosophy

against Freudian barbarians in medicine Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin laying the ghosts of my unconscious to rest as ancestors in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Alon joining the resistance from Cambridge Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey reading the Republic to learn how to avoid despair in medicine Wisconsin.

Very nice. Wes tell us why we're reading this.

We are reading this because a fan requested that we do this.

I'm not sure if that fan learned of Jonathan Lear. For me, I have mentioned him on the show before

and I have suggested him to you guys. He is someone that I knew in grad school only as an Aristotle scholar.

He read a really good book called the Aristotle with the desire to understand.

Strangely enough, I came across him again when I was studying psychoanalysis and it turned out he

was also not only a philosopher and at the committee on social thought at the University of Chicago,

but he was a practicing psychoanalyst and had written about the intersection of ancient philosophy

and psychoanalysis, which is something that also interested me a lot. He was very influential on me

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