Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Ancient philosophy discussions • Plato's dialogues • Socratic method • Virtue and justice • Immortality of the soul • Knowledge and wisdom • Role of reason • Harmony and proportion • Constitutional governance
"This podcast, titled 'Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato,' is a bi-weekly series dedicated to group discussions on the dialogues of the ancient philosopher and geometer, Plato. Hosted by amateur philosopher James Myers and organized through Meetup.com, the podcast invites anyone interested in learning about Plato or contributing to the discussions to join. Episodes are only lightly edited to maintain the authenticity of the contributors' perspectives.
Each episode of the podcast delves deeply into the themes and topics explored in Plato’s dialogues. The podcast series has substantial coverage of Plato's longest and final dialogue, 'The Laws,' examining the detailed proposals of governance in the fictional colony of Magnesia encompassing aspects like the role of leaders, the crafting of laws, the virtue of rulers and citizens, and protection against vice and foreign influence. Topics discussed include property and punishment, kinds of leadership, the role of education and harmony, and the complex frameworks proposed to maintain justice and virtue within the society.
Beyond 'The Laws,' the podcast also revisits Plato’s other seminal works such as 'Timaeus' and 'Critias,' discussing themes like the nature of the universe, the role of the soul, the dynamics of motion, and the harmony between the physical and immaterial realms. The series includes discourses on the dialogues like 'The Republic,' 'Philebus,' 'Cratylus,' and 'Protagoras,' integrating philosophical perspectives on the nature of virtue, the relationship between pleasure and knowledge, and the fundamental principles of existence and reality.
Overall, 'Plato's Pod' provides an in-depth exploration of various philosophical concepts from Plato's works, including the interplay between law and morality, the role of reason in the universe, and the essence of the soul. Listeners can expect rigorous and thoughtful discussions that tie ancient philosophy to both historical and contemporary contexts."
Episodes:
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Plato's Laws - Book XII, Part 1: Who Guards the Guardians?
2024-Sep-27
111 minutes
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Plato's Laws - Book XI: Property and Punishment in Magnesia
2024-Sep-02
112 minutes
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Plato's Laws - Book IX: Legislating the Good for Unjust Acts Committed
2024-Aug-05
119 minutes
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Plato’s Laws – Book VII: Teaching and Legislating for Harmony
2024-Jul-23
116 minutes
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Plato's Laws - Book VI: Founding and Governing a Virtuous Society
2024-Jul-04
119 minutes
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Plato’s Laws – Book V: The Soul in Communal Harmony
2024-Jun-18
104 minutes
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Plato's Laws - Book IV: Leadership by Reason
2024-May-26
124 minutes
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Plato’s Laws – Book III: Finding Unity and Reason in the Balance of Reason
2024-May-12
126 minutes
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Plato's Laws - Book II: Learning the Pleasure of the Good and Beautiful
2024-Apr-14
132 minutes
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Plato's Laws - Book I, Part 2: Mastering Pain and Pleasure in a Virtuous Society
2024-Mar-16
113 minutes
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Plato's Laws - Book I, Part 1: A Constitution for Peace and Virtue
2024-Mar-03
117 minutes
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Plato's Laws - Book X, Part 2: Reason as the Cause in the Middle of It All
2024-Feb-16
113 minutes
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Plato's Laws - Book X, Part 1: Universal Patterns
2024-Feb-02
123 minutes
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Plato's Critias Revisited: The Tale of Atlantis and the Harmonics of Memory
2023-Dec-18
113 minutes
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Plato's Timaeus Revisited: Part IV - The Soul's Perceptions in the Universal Middle
2023-Dec-03
112 minutes
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Plato’s Timaeus Revisited, Part III: Perceiving Imitations of Being as they Become
2023-Nov-17
119 minutes
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Plato's Timaeus Revisited: Part II - A Universe Centered on the Soul
2023-Nov-03
110 minutes
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Plato's Timaeus Revisited: Part I – Cities in Motion for both Observer and Observed
2023-Oct-15
114 minutes
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What Would Socrates Say About ChatGPT?
2023-Sep-25
41 minutes
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Plato's Crito: The Constitution of Souls
2023-Jul-18
120 minutes
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Plato’s Ion: The Stories That Souls Trade
2023-Jul-04
111 minutes
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Platio's Symposium, Part 3: Knowledge Versus Mastery, and Love's Light in The Cave
2023-Jun-15
108 minutes
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Plato's Symposium, Part 2: Love and the Immortal Good
2023-May-31
112 minutes
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Plato's Symposium, Part 1: Love's Poetry, Bearing Individual and Universal Truths
2023-May-12
106 minutes
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Plato’s Hippias Minor: Truth, Lies, and Feedback Loops
2023-May-05
92 minutes
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Plato's Protagoras, Part 3: In Virtue of What Does Good Outweigh Bad?
2023-Apr-09
111 minutes
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Plato's Protagoras, Part 2: Is Virtue One Thing or Many?
2023-Mar-24
112 minutes
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Plato's Protagoras, Part 1: Can Virtue Be Taught?
2023-Mar-10
113 minutes
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Plato's Philebus, Part 3: The Philosopher's Arithmetic
2023-Feb-23
112 minutes
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Plato’s Philebus, Part 2: Does the Universe Have a Soul and Reason?
2023-Feb-08
99 minutes
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Dialogue on the Philebus, Part 1: The Universe of Memory, Knowledge, and Limits
2023-Jan-25
111 minutes
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Plato's Greater Hippias: The Measure of Intelligence
2022-Dec-21
106 minutes
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Dialogue on the Cratylus, Part 3: Things Good, True, and Beautiful
2022-Dec-08
100 minutes
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Dialogue on The Cratylus, Part 2: Being, Becoming, and Limits
2022-Nov-22
102 minutes
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Dialogue on The Cratylus, Part 1: Distinguishing One Thing From Another
2022-Nov-07
94 minutes
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Plato's Cratylus and the Forms: Our Perception in Time
2022-Oct-22
35 minutes
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Modern Technology and Ancient Philosophy: Building the Bridge With Science
2022-Jul-29
97 minutes
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Dialogue on The Parmenides, Session 2: If the One is Not, then Nothing Is
2022-Jun-26
97 minutes
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Dialogue on The Parmenides, Session 1: The One and the Many
2022-Jun-11
111 minutes
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Dialogue on The Statesman, Session 3: Harmony in Time
2022-May-28
103 minutes
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Dialogue on The Statesman, Session 2: The Mean and The Extremes
2022-May-14
112 minutes
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Dialogue on The Statesman, Session 1: Ripple of Hope
2022-Apr-30
123 minutes
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Dialogue On The Sophist, Session 3: The Forms In A Harmony Of Difference
2022-Apr-09
122 minutes
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Dialogue On The Sophist, Session 2: The Forms Whole And One
2022-Mar-26
123 minutes
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Dialogue On The Sophist, Session 1: Continuous Division
2022-Mar-12
120 minutes
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Dialogue On Phaedo, Session 3: Form And Cause
2022-Feb-26
120 minutes
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Dialogue On Phaedo, Session 2: Infinite Potential
2022-Feb-12
114 minutes
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Dialogue On Phaedo, Session 1: Logic Of The Equal
2022-Jan-29
120 minutes
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Dialogue On Philebus: The One And The Many
2022-Jan-15
124 minutes
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Dialogue on The Republic, Session 6: The Immortal Soul
2021-Dec-18
113 minutes
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Dialogue on The Republic, Session 5: Knowledge of Philosophers
2021-Dec-14
118 minutes
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Dialogue on The Republic, Session 4: Philosopher Rulers
2021-Nov-20
115 minutes
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Dialogue on The Republic, Session 3: The Guardians, The Virtues, and The Soul
2021-Nov-06
116 minutes
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Dialogue on The Republic, Session 2: Social Constitution
2021-Oct-23
114 minutes
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Dialogue on The Republic, Session 1: Allegory of the Cave, Simile of the Sun, Nature of Good, and the Divided Line
2021-Oct-07
117 minutes
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Welcome to Plato's Pod! - Season 2 Trailer
2021-Aug-09
2 minutes
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Dialogue on The Theaetetus, Part 2: Transmission of Knowledge in Two Types of Motion
2021-Jun-13
117 minutes
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Dialogue on The Theaetetus, Part I: Knowledge, memory, and their measure
2021-Jun-02
115 minutes
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Dialogue on The Euthyphro: The nature of piety and our relationship with the eternal
2021-May-24
110 minutes
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Dialogue on The Critias: The Legend of Atlantis and the Quest for Divine Harmony
2021-May-08
112 minutes
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Dialogue on The Phaedrus (Part II): The Purpose of Speech, and its Powers in Particular
2021-Apr-15
119 minutes
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Dialogue on The Republic, Session 5: Knowledge of Philosophers
2021-Dec-04
118 minutes
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Dialogue on The Phaedrus: The Soul and General Forms of Understanding
2021-Mar-29
less than a minute
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Dialogue on The Charmides: The “Science of Self” in the Intelligent Universe
2021-Mar-26
114 minutes
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Dialogue on The Meno: Virtue and Knowledge in the Intelligent Universe
2021-Mar-26
119 minutes
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Dialogue on The Timaeus: Creation of the Observable, Visible, Physical Universe
2021-Mar-26
108 minutes
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Dialogue on The Timaeus: Creation of the Intelligent Universe
2021-Mar-25
110 minutes
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