Republic Book IX EP 22 (Final Episode) Tyranny and the Tyrannical Soul
We have come to the end of Plato's Republic and the end of the podcast. In the final episode, Socrates satisfies Glaucon's challenge to show that a just state is always preferable to an unjust state ...
23 Marras 202125min
Republic Bk VIII & IX EP 21 Defective Constitutions and Damaged Souls
Plato extends his analogy between the constitution of the city-state and the soul of the individual by presenting a theory about how the constitutions slowly devolve from the ideal (kingship or aristo...
16 Marras 202120min
Republic Bk VI, VII EP 19 Analogy of the Sun
Socrates tells Glaucon that philosophers should be kings because only they have access to the Form (concept) of the Good. The concept of Justice cannot be understood unless one understands its relati...
2 Marras 202116min
Republic Bk.VI EP 18 Only Philosophers Should be Kings
This episode begin with Socrates' astounding claim that "only philosophers should be kings." However, he soon qualifies this with the remark that he does not mean philosopher in name only. He means ...
26 Loka 202118min
Republic Book V EP 17 Women, Marriage and Children in the Ruling Class
Socrates argues in defense of his recommendation that women can and should be rulers in the ideal state. His argument is that there is nothing relevant about women that would prevent them from ruling...
19 Loka 202117min
Republic Book IV (cont.) EP 16 Humunculi, Self-Control and Injustice
This episode is a discussion of the concluding paragraphs of Republic, Book IV. It is about the question "Why do we need a theory to explain self-control?" Socrates would answer this by saying "Beca...
12 Loka 202123min
Republic Bk. IV (cont.) EP 15 The Theory of Parts of the Soul and the Humunculus Problem
If Socrates is to convince Glaucon that justice and injustice in the soul is like justice and injustice in the city-state, then he must prove that there are parts of the soul analogous to the three cl...
5 Loka 202116min
