R2 All Men Would Be Tyrants | Plato's Republic, book 2
Ancient Greece Declassified
Dr. Lantern Jack
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🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The third installment in our ongoing series on Plato's Republic. Use the following timestamps for easier navigation:
2:40 Introduction to book 2
11:35 Glaucon's speech in favor of injustice
20:00 Adeimantus' speech on the weakness of pro-justice arguments
26:30 Socrates reply; the city-soul analogy
38:20 The education of the Guardians
44:40 Analysis and conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | A brief message from a friend of the podcast. |
| 0:02.8 | Hello, fans of ancient Greece. |
| 0:05.1 | My name is Dominic. |
| 0:06.5 | Long ago, even the Greeks knew that Egypt was truly old. |
| 0:10.7 | The calm waters of the Nile had witnessed countless generations, |
| 0:14.4 | and on the banks of that river, a skilled and creative people had fashioned the greatest kingdom on earth. |
| 0:20.7 | If you like your history ancient, |
| 0:22.6 | then the History of Egypt podcast is for you, a tale of pyramids, pharaohs, gods and magic, |
| 0:29.4 | told through the eyes of the ancients themselves. And now, back to another wonderful episode |
| 0:35.3 | about the ancient Greeks. |
| 0:43.4 | Music back to another wonderful episode about the ancient Greeks. Hi, thanks for tuning in to ancient Greece, Declassified. |
| 0:50.3 | Episode R2, Plato's Republic Book 2. |
| 0:54.1 | All men would be tyrants. |
| 0:57.0 | Just a quick note before we begin today's episode. |
| 1:03.0 | When I first announced this project online, I said it was going to be 10 episodes on the 10 books of the Republic. |
| 1:10.0 | But as I started creating the series, I realized that |
| 1:12.5 | it really needed a separate introduction, so I told you in our zero that it would be 11 shows. |
| 1:18.1 | I should have listened to my friends Rianan Evans and Matt Smith over at the Emperors of Rome podcast, |
| 1:23.0 | who warned me from the beginning that whenever you try to tackle one of these monumental works of |
| 1:28.2 | literature, you always end up doing more episodes than planned. But I resisted their sage advice and was like, |
| 1:35.0 | no, I must maintain the ten-part structure at all cost. And so even as the last episode grew to |
| 1:40.5 | twice the length of some of my other ones, I refused to split it in two. But Rianin |
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