Plato's Laws - Book IV: Leadership by Reason
Book IV of Plato's longest dialogue, The Laws, places the spotlight on the qualities of virtuous leadership as the three characters - the unnamed Athenian, Clinias from Crete, and Megillus from Sparta...
26 Maj 20242h 4min
Plato’s Laws – Book III: Finding Unity and Reason in the Balance of Reason
Our discussion on Book III of Plato’s longest dialogue, The Laws, began by considering the consequences of natural cataclysms that invariably befall humanity. Plato opens the book with the emergence o...
12 Maj 20242h 6min
Plato's Laws - Book II: Learning the Pleasure of the Good and Beautiful
Our coverage of Plato’s longest dialogue, The Laws, continues with a discussion on Book II, building on the connection of virtue and happiness that was emphasized in Book I. As the Athenian, Cretan, a...
14 Apr 20242h 12min
Plato's Laws - Book I, Part 2: Mastering Pain and Pleasure in a Virtuous Society
If the constitution for Crete’s new colony, Magnesia, is to succeed in setting the conditions for virtue among its citizens, self control and courage will be required to conquer the pains but equally ...
16 Mars 20241h 53min
Plato's Laws - Book I, Part 1: A Constitution for Peace and Virtue
Plato’s Pod began discussing Book I of Plato’s longest dialogue, the Laws, which advances the argument for the constitution of Crete’s new colony to cultivate the virtue of its citizens. It’s unlike t...
3 Mars 20241h 57min
Plato's Laws - Book X, Part 2: Reason as the Cause in the Middle of It All
Plato's Pod continues its series on Plato's longest work, The Laws, picking up where we left off two weeks ago with the second part of Book X, near the end of the dialogue. In Book X, the three charac...
16 Feb 20241h 53min
Plato's Laws - Book X, Part 1: Universal Patterns
On January 21, 2024, Plato's Pod began its extended series on Plato's longest and perhaps most enigmatic and impenetrable dialogue, The Laws, which is said to have been his final work. Members of the...
2 Feb 20242h 3min
Plato's Critias Revisited: The Tale of Atlantis and the Harmonics of Memory
Plato brought the legend of Atlantis to the world in the Timaeus, and in the Critias provided many details of the fabulously wealthy and technologically advanced society that fell into disharmony and ...
18 Dec 20231h 53min
