Philosophy with specialty in classical political philosophy, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare and the late/postmodern reception of them
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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...
Hobbes On Thucydides and “History”
The Question of “Modernity” and a Problem of Scholasticism
There is great complexity and subtlety required in speaking of “ancients” and “moderns.” The reason for that is because the genuine depth of philosophy is not at all as facile of t...
The Meaning of the Cave in Plato and in Nietzsche
On the Possibility of Education: “Ancient” and “Modern”
In this lecture I discuss a few key passages in Nietzsche’s writings pertaining to the image of the cave presented by Socrates in book 7 of Plato’s Republic. In so doing, I explain th...
Machiavelli’s World Construction and Creation as the Origin of “Modernity”
In this section of my recent discussion with Alex Priou on the origin “Modernity” we discuss the true philosophical depths of Machiavelli’s revolution. We explain how this revolution in Machiavelli should be understood in terms of “technolo...
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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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