Hello, wonderful new listener. You've found the panpsychast, but I think you might be lost.

To put it bluntly, episode one isn't very good, and it brings us great pain to know that you're here now listening to this message.

With this in mind, we recommend jumping ahead a few episodes. Olly, which would you recommend listeners jump forward to?

I would recommend at least episode five on utilitarianism because that one is fun.

Andrew?

Do I actually get a say?

Of course you do.

Oh, lovely.

Let's jump all the way to our existentialism episodes.

They're fun too, and you'll feel nice and cool if you listen to Sartre, Camus and Kirkagard. Not to mention de Beauvoir. I was going to recommend episode 16, Kirkagard. Would you reckon, do you think that's a good place to start? It's not a bad one. It's a very good one, in fact. Alternatively, feel free to ignore this message and listen on. You're still listening?

I like your style, kid.

I mean, you've made a stupid decision, but I like your style.

I think we're going to get along just by it.

It puts them off listening to the entire thing.

Who are these guys?

Hello, and welcome to our first reading of Twilight Breaking Dawn.

Just kidding, this is episode one of the Panpsychas, where we'll be focusing on Plato's Cave.

Plato lived in Athens in ancient Greece between the years of 428 and 348 BC.

Along with his teacher Socrates and his most famous student Aristotle, Plato laid the very foundations of Western philosophy and science.

What Plato did was not the work of the first philosopher, but the transformation of philosophy into the rigorous, systematic examination

of ethical, political, metaphysical, and epistemological issues that it is today.

Few other authors in the history of Western philosophy approximate him in depth and range.

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