Socrates
200Building a City State out of Plato
29 Jul 2024
1:37¶ 7
“Yes, there’s that. And so, as is the way with most of Plato – we call them dialogues but they’re more like trialogues or…”
3:19¶ 17
“Fine. Socrates says that the city-state has to arise out of human need. “A state arises out of the needs of mankind. No one…”
5:58¶ 24
“And later in the dialogue we do come to that bluntly stated, where the interlocutor says, “Well, then these people won’t be happy,” and…”
199What's so great about So-crates?
22 Jul 2024
4:55¶ 20
“Yes, it’s not about truth, it’s about persuading people. The traveling teachers/tutors who they hired were called Sophists, from the Greek word Sophia, meaning…”
5:53¶ 23
“He was not a handsome man. He had a shrew of a wife, at least that’s Plato’s take on it, so he wasn’t home…”
11:02¶ 34
“In the end, Socrates decides that what the Oracle meant was that Socrates at least knows he doesn’t know anything, and these people haven’t…”
198The Pre-Socratics
15 Jul 2024
28:17¶ 99
“From there on Columbo does very much the kind of thing Socrates would do, as we’ll see. He begins asking questions. Some of them…”
29:40¶ 102
“But if there’s any truth in anything he wrote it will be in the Apology. Socrates is eventually brought to trial for two crimes…”
30:12¶ 105
“I ask you to do this and I challenge you to listen to what Socrates actually says. The verdict of the historians and of…”
197Rational and Religious
1 Jul 2024
34:34¶ 104
“For instance, we look at Socrates and we see him as a martyr for teaching gods not taught by the State and corrupting the…”
34:47¶ 106
“Yeah, a pension for violating the laws of the State. People have made a big fuss over him and declared him a hero, but…”
11:31¶ 36
“Back when I was writing a series a few years ago, we’ve all heard about the unmoved mover and we connect it with Aristotle.…”