Plato's Fish-Trap: Ancient Philosophy and Science
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34. Xunzi on Human Nature
In this episode, I discuss the arguments, given by Xunzi, an ancient Confucian philosopher, that human nature is evil.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Alma College.
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Plato's criticism of the rule of law
Plato’s political philosophy revolves around several key beliefs, one of which is that philosophers should be rulers. That key belief entails that Plato believed that we should have the rule of a person or people. Western countries in the 2...
33. The Future of Ancient Science
In this episode, I discuss and reflect on G.E.R. Lloyd's "Does Ancient Science Have a Future?" that was published in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society and was, I believe, a speech that he gave at Cambridge before that....
Ecclesiates' philosophy: what matters in life?
Ecclesiastes is a crucial text in the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Old Testament. It is most famous for putting forward the view that nothing matters and that everything is vain (or, as most 21st-century translations put it, futile). Pur...
32. Stylometry and the Chronology of Plato's Dialogues
In this episode, I discuss how scholars have used stylometry to date the composition of Plato's dialogues. I introduce and explain basic stylometric methods as well as their application in the case of Plato's dialogues in particular.
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