Plato's Pod: Dialogues on the works of Plato
59 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWelcome to Plato's Pod, a bi-weekly podcast of group discussions on the dialogues of Plato held through Meetup.com. Anyone interested in participating, whether to learn about Plato or to contribute to the dialogue, is welcome to join with no experience required! The podcast is hosted by amateur philosopher James Myers and inquiries can be e-mailed to [email protected]. Wherever we go in our discussions we gain knowledge from each other’s perspectives, and for the increase in knowledge we invite everyone to add their voice to the dialogue. Plato, without a doubt, would have imagined no better way than in dialogue for knowledge – the account of the reasons why – to find its home.
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Dialogue on The Theaetetus, Part I: Knowledge, memory, and their measure
June 02, 2021 11:54 - 1 hour - 263 MBIn 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, the nature of which Plato explores in the dialogue Theaetetus. The way in which knowledge connects to memory was among the themes explored from individual and collective perspectives by participants from the Toronto and Calgary Philosophy and Online Rebels Meetup groups. In the present state of...
Dialogue on The Euthyphro: The nature of piety and our relationship with the eternal
May 24, 2021 15:35 - 1 hour - 253 MBWhat 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 discussion on May 16, 2021 of the Toronto Philosophy, Calgary Philosophy, and Online Rebels Meetup groups we considered the case of Plato's Euthyphro who is about to prosecute his father for the impiety of murder. Upon hearing of Euthyphro's case, Socrates mentions his own accuser Meletus whose charges ...
Dialogue on The Critias: The Legend of Atlantis and the Quest for Divine Harmony
May 08, 2021 14:50 - 1 hour - 258 MBWas 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 humbling message to Plato's time and ours about disorder and discord that arises when the divine nature of the soul is diluted and obscured by lust for possessions and power? On May 2, 2021 participants from the Toronto Philosophy, Calgary Philosophy, and Online Rebels Meetup groups met in this...
Dialogue on The Phaedrus (Part II): The Purpose of Speech, and its Powers in Particular
April 15, 2021 12:34 - 1 hour - 274 MBDoes 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 apply that understanding to a particular purpose? In this live recording made on April 11, 2021 of a discussion of the Toronto Philosophy, Calgary Philosophy, and Online Rebels Meetup groups we explored these and other aspects of Plato's Phaedrus (from 257(c) to the end). Among the powers of speech ...
Dialogue on The Phaedrus: The Soul and General Forms of Understanding
March 29, 2021 16:05 - 30 seconds - 260 MBHow do we bring "many perceptions together into a reasoned unity" and does this require that we understand speech "in terms of general forms"? These are among the questions that Socrates invited us to consider, as we did in this March 28, 2021 live recording of a meeting of the Toronto Philosophy, Calgary Philosophy, and Online Rebels Meetup groups. During the course of our dialogue, covering the first part of The Phaedrus to 257(b), we explored the multifaceted nature of the soul and the la...
Dialogue on The Charmides: The “Science of Self” in the Intelligent Universe
March 26, 2021 00:47 - 1 hour - 261 MBIs knowledge of all knowledge, including of that which is not knowledge, logically possible? This, among other questions, was the subject of discussion in this March 14, 2021 live recording of a discussion of the Toronto Philosophy, Calgary Philosophy, and Online Rebels Meetup groups. The range of our own dialogue covered the nature of self and of temperance, which Plato represents as the “science of self”, and Socrates’ words that “…it was not living scientifically that was making us fare w...
Dialogue on The Meno: Virtue and Knowledge in the Intelligent Universe
March 26, 2021 00:18 - 1 hour - 273 MBIn this live discussion of the Toronto Philosophy, Calgary Philosophy, and Online Rebels Meetup groups that occurred on February 28, 2021 we examined the nature of virtue and whether virtue can be taught, which is the opening question that Meno asks in Plato’s dialogue. Our own dialogue explored the nature of knowledge, which Socrates proclaimed to be “recollection” and the “account of the reasons why”, and the application of knowledge in the intelligent universe.
Dialogue on The Timaeus: Creation of the Observable, Visible, Physical Universe
March 26, 2021 00:05 - 1 hour - 249 MBThis recording of a live discussion of the Toronto Philosophy, Calgary Philosophy, and Online Rebels Meetup groups occurred on February 14, 2021. We continued our discussion of two weeks earlier by reviewing the logical construction of the intelligent universe from 28(a) to 33(d). Then we began to explore the shape of the physical universe that is observable by intelligence, bearing in mind as Timaeus suggests at 50(d) “three types of things: that which comes to be, that in which it comes to...
Dialogue on The Timaeus: Creation of the Intelligent Universe
March 25, 2021 13:59 - 1 hour - 253 MBThis recording of a live discussion of the Toronto Philosophy, Calgary Philosophy, and Online Rebels Meetup groups occurred on January 31, 2021. Our focus was on the first part of Plato’s Timaeus, to 47(e), discussing the creation of the intelligent universe. The logical flow that begins at 28(a) of the dialogue was reviewed early in our second episode.