Plato's Fish-Trap: Ancient Philosophy and Science
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50. The Pythagorean Music of the Spheres
In this episode, I discuss the famous Pythagorean doctrine of the music of the heavenly spheres: what our source is for this doctrine, what the view is, and why Aristotle disagreed with it.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of...
Cicero on the strengths and weaknesses of democracy
Cicero’s De Re Publica, whose title in English translation is ‘the Republic’, echoing Plato’s Republic, is a landmark achievement of ancient political philosophy and certainly of all Latin-language thought. One of Cicero’s goals in the work...
Knowledge and perception in Plato’s Theaetetus (Ermioni Prokopaki, The Ancient Philosophy Podcast)
In this interview, I speak with Ermioni Prokopaki about Plato's Theaetetus. We discuss the central problem that animates the dialogue — which is the question of what knowledge is — as well as how the dialogue fits into Plato's overall philo...
49. Did Plato Write a Proto-Republic?
In this episode, I consider whether Plato wrote an earlier version of his masterpiece, the Republic, which is sometimes called the Ideal City or the Proto-Republic.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Alma Colleg...
Plato's cyclical argument for the immortality of the soul
The immortality of the soul was one of Plato’s most famous doctrines. He’s not the only ancient philosopher to believe it; others, like the Pythagoreans, did too, but it’s remarkably difficult to reconstruct their arguments and beliefs. Wha...
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Alma College. Author of An Introduction to the Ethics of Social Media. Host of the Ancient Philosophy Podcast.
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