Ep 21: Ch 10, Part 2 "A Dream of Socrates"
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English - February 01, 2020 02:51 - 56 minutes - 105 MB - ★★★★★ - 84 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Ep 20: Ch 10, Part 1 "A Dream of Socrates"
Next Episode: Ep 22: The Logic of Experimental Tests
In this, the second episode covering Chapter 10 "A Dream of Socrates", we encounter Plato in dialogue with Socrates. An attempt is made to learn epistemology from Socrates by Plato. Epistemology is applied to political institutions and the concept of dynamic and static societies is explored and we get our first sense of what anti-rational memes are about (though this terminology is not yet being used). In the second half I compare and contrast kinds of democracy.