Episode #004 ... Plato

Philosophize This!

Stephen West

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 17.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2013

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this week's episode, we learn about Plato's "Symposium", which you might think of as philosophy's version of fan fiction. We also learn about Plato's "Theory of Forms" and ask ourselves what makes a tree, well, a tree. This leads to discussion of Plato's famous "Allegory of the Cave" and calls into question whether or not everything we see is merely a shadow of its true self. Finally, we learn about Plato's views on society and government and why he thought democracy was one of the worst forms of government, second only to tyranny. Support the show on Patreon! www.philosophizethis.org for additional content. Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.6	the show.
0:38.6	Hello, everyone.
0:39.6	It's me, Stephen West.
0:41.4	This is philosophize this and I got to tell you this episode was really close to being
0:46.8	a two-part episode because when you're dealing with philosophers that are as influential as
0:52.0	Plato was and have a body of work as extensive as Plato's is, it starts to become very difficult
0:58.1	to make one single 45-minute conglomeration of all of it.
1:03.5	On that same note, a guy named Alfred North Whitehead famously said that all of Western
1:08.5	philosophy, subsequently after Plato, consists of a set of footnotes to Plato and his work.
1:14.8	Footnotes, that's it.
1:16.2	By the end of this episode, you're going to understand why he said that.
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