Dialogue on The Republic, Session 2: Social Constitution
Continuing our discussion on The Republic, on October 17, 2021 participants from the Toronto Philosophy and Calgary Philosophy Meetup groups examined part of Book II in which Glaucon challenges his fr...
23 Okt 20211h 54min
Dialogue on The Republic, Session 1: Allegory of the Cave, Simile of the Sun, Nature of Good, and the Divided Line
Members of the Toronto Philosophy and Calgary Philosophy Meetup groups convened on September 26, 2021 to launch season two of Plato’s Pod with a discussion on Plato’s Republic. Our focus was on the fa...
7 Okt 20211h 57min
Welcome to Plato's Pod! - Season 2 Trailer
Welcome to Plato’s Pod – a podcast that brings you group discussions on the complete works of Plato, the great philosopher and geometer. I am your host, James Myers. I am an amateur philosopher with a...
9 Aug 20212min
Dialogue on The Theaetetus, Part 2: Transmission of Knowledge in Two Types of Motion
Participants from the Toronto and Calgary Philosophy and Online Rebels Meetup groups met on June 13, 2021 to discuss themes in the second part of Theaetetus, Plato's dialogue on knowledge. We began by...
13 Jun 20211h 57min
Dialogue on The Theaetetus, Part I: Knowledge, memory, and their measure
In this live recorded discussion on May 30, 2021 we began by listening to an interview of physicist Richard Feynman recalling the paths that he and other explorers took to acquire and apply knowledge,...
2 Jun 20211h 55min
Dialogue on The Euthyphro: The nature of piety and our relationship with the eternal
What does it mean to be pious, and how have changes in the meaning over time motivated those who have claimed to be acting piously and affected those accused of impiety? In this live recorded discussi...
24 Mai 20211h 50min
Dialogue on The Critias: The Legend of Atlantis and the Quest for Divine Harmony
Was the cataclysmic disappearance of Atlantis and its wealth and beauty, nine millennia before Plato wrote about it, real? Or was Atlantis presented as a model and archetypical civilization, sending a...
8 Mai 20211h 52min
Dialogue on The Phaedrus (Part II): The Purpose of Speech, and its Powers in Particular
Does speech exist to provide direction to the soul, as Socrates asserts in the second part of The Phaedrus? How do we use the power of reason to interpret the general form of a spoken concept and appl...
15 Apr 20211h 59min
