Plato's Fish-Trap: Ancient Philosophy and Science
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44. Plato's Lecture on the Good
In this episode, I discuss Plato's famous lecture on the Good. Much of the discussion here is a reflection on Konrad Gaiser's article, "Plato's Enigmatic Lecture on the Good," which was published in Phronesis in 1980.
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Epicurus: live unnoticed!
There was a phrase associated with Epicurus in antiquity: ‘live unnoticed’. The Greek phrase ‘lathe biōsas’ means something like ‘live while escaping being noticed’. It isn’t clear whether Epicurus himself ever said that: it doesn’t appear...
43. The Sisyphus Fragment
In this episode, I discuss the so-called Sisyphus fragment, which contains a rare bit of atheistic philosophy from the fifth century BCE.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Alma College.
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The Persian Constitutional Debate
It was common in ancient political philosophy to present a classification scheme like the following. There are monarchies, in which one person rules. There are aristocracies, in which a few people rule. And then there are democracies, in wh...
42. Did Aristotle Believe in the Wandering Womb?
In this episode, I discuss whether Aristotle believed in the wandering womb. The answer is 'yes, he did', but his view of the wandering womb is different from, say, Plato's, as I talk about in the episode.
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