34 - The Esoteric Plato feat. Earl Fontainelle

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Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast

Clif Mark

47 episodes

9 months ago

This episode is a crossover collabo with Graham Culbertson of the Everyday Anarchism podcast. Graham asked me over to talk Athenian democracy, Plato, anarchism and how modern meritocratic education sucks. We had a nice time with it and hope you do too. Support the show

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34 - The Esoteric Plato feat. Earl Fontainelle

Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast

1 hour 28 minutes

4 years ago

34 - The Esoteric Plato feat. Earl Fontainelle

Today I speak with Earl Fontainelle of the Secret History of Western Esotericism podcast (SHWEP). I don’t understand Plato. Partly this is because he never writes in his own voice and partly it’s because I can’t even always tell when Socrates is joking or even what he’s talking about. The divided line? The Myth of Er? The tyrant being exactly 729 times less happy than the philosopher? These are all weird things in the Republic that are still mysterious to me. Earl suggests that perh...