R6 The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful | Plato's Republic, book 6 w/ Gabriel Richardson Lear
Ancient Greece Declassified
Dr. Lantern Jack
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🗓️ 12 December 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Book 6 of the Republic is the work's core section where Plato lays out his metaphysics. Appealing to his signature Theory of Forms, Plato offers a transcendent vision of the Good as the ultimate source of human knowledge.
Joining us to help us unpack this theory is Gabriel Richardson Lear, professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago and author of the book Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.
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| 0:00.0 | A brief message from a friend of the podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | Hello, listeners of the ancient Greece declassified podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | My name is Simon Drew, and I'm the host of what used to be the practical Stoic podcast, |
| 0:10.7 | where I explored the ancient philosophy of stoicism for about three years, |
| 0:14.9 | and now the podcast has turned into the Waldgarden podcast and community. |
| 0:19.5 | Now, the Waldgarten is a collaboration that I've worked out |
| 0:22.4 | between myself and the American best-selling author Sharon LaBelle and the British philosopher, |
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| 0:32.6 | of us being able to bring people into our circle in order to walk that path of personal transformation together. |
| 0:38.7 | So we discuss such things as beliefs, values, religion, theology, philosophy, meaning making, |
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| 1:06.5 | Hi, thanks for tuning in to ancient Greece, declassified. |
| 1:15.4 | Episode R6, The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful. |
| 1:23.2 | I know I've said this about almost every book of the Republic so far, but book six has a lot going on in it. |
| 1:30.0 | For real, this might be the most difficult and crucial of all the books. |
| 1:34.4 | I mean, this is the core of that onion-like structure that we talked about in previous episodes that characterizes the entire work. |
| 1:41.6 | It is the nucleus, the kernel, where Plato lays out what modern philosophers call his metaphysics. It's where the theory work. It is the nucleus, the kernel, where Plato lays out what modern philosophers |
| 1:45.9 | call his metaphysics. It's where the theory of forms comes into play. We'll definitely need |
| 1:51.5 | two episodes to even attempt to unpack it all, and we'll need all the help we can get. In this |
| 1:56.9 | episode, we'll be joined by a renowned scholar to help guide us through book six. |
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