Philosophy with specialty in classical political philosophy, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare and the late/postmodern reception of them
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Odysseus and the Tension Between Reason and Divine Revelation
Plato’s Phaedo (part 1)
The relation between Homer’s Odysseus and the divine is seldom even adequately understood. Throughout the Platonic dialogues Plato’s Socrates demonstrates what can only be described as an amazingly subtle knowledge...
Nietzsche, Socrates, and “Modernity”
On the philosophy of philosophical education
Here I discuss the nature of education, which is to say the philosophy of philosophical education. Our best teachers in this subject are Nietzsche and Socrates. At issue is the fundamental diffe...
A Discussion with Alex Priou on “Modernity”
Machiavelli as Founder of “Modernity”
Alex Priou was generous enough to guest lecture on Machiavelli to the course I’m teaching on “Modernity and Modern Philosophy.” This is the full recording of the discussion
Homer’s Odyssey: Poetry, Philosophy, and “Modernity”
The Songs of Odysseus, Demodocus, and Achilles
Did you know that Achilles sings songs? — and that Homer allows Odysseus to sing his own song for four entire books, inviting us to compare what he says to what Homer says through the Muse? An...
The Cave in Plato’s Republic
On the Possibility and Impossibility of Philosophy
In this discussion I meticulously go through the entire presentation of the image of the cave that Plato’s Socrates gives to Glaucon in the opening of book 7 of Plato’s Republic. You will...
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Philosophy with specialty in Homer, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare and the late/postmodern reception of them in the 17th-21st centuries
Roubos Sabbatical Scholar at the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization at the University of Colorado Boulder and Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Austin (UATX)
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