Plato's Timaeus Revisited: Part IV - The Soul's Perceptions in the Universal Middle
Plato’s Pod concluded its revisiting of Plato’s Timaeus, covering from 53(a) to 72(d) with a focus on sensory perception in relation to triangles and what have come to be known as the five Platonic so...
3 Dec 20231h 52min
Plato’s Timaeus Revisited, Part III: Perceiving Imitations of Being as they Become
How does perception of shape relate to our understanding of time, when everything we see, touch, taste, smell, and hear is in a constant state of motion and change? The question occupied members of th...
17 Nov 20231h 59min
Plato's Timaeus Revisited: Part II - A Universe Centered on the Soul
Plato’s Pod continues its coverage of Plato’s Timaeus, from 30(d)-47(e) where the astronomer Timaeus explains the construction of the universe centered on the soul. On October 22, 2023, members of the...
3 Nov 20231h 50min
Plato's Timaeus Revisited: Part I – Cities in Motion for both Observer and Observed
Why does Plato’s Timaeus, on the creation of the universe, begin with Socrates disavowing the imagined city of The Republic? As Socrates and the astronomer Timaeus review their discussion of the previ...
15 Okt 20231h 54min
What Would Socrates Say About ChatGPT?
Plato’s Pod introduces its 4th season by demonstrating the relevance of ancient philosophy to modern technology with the question, “What Would Socrates Say About ChatGPT?” We take Socrates to the offi...
25 Sep 202341min
Plato's Crito: The Constitution of Souls
What is our relationship with the laws of the society of which we are a part, and what should we do when the laws are misapplied by a misguided majority? For Socrates, in Plato’s Crito, the answer was...
18 Juli 20232h
Plato’s Ion: The Stories That Souls Trade
“We are all Ions,” one participant observed, and maybe that’s truly the case if each one of us is a link in a storytelling chain. In Plato’s dialogue the Ion, Socrates reminds the title character, who...
4 Juli 20231h 51min
Platio's Symposium, Part 3: Knowledge Versus Mastery, and Love's Light in The Cave
In the opening of the last third of Plato’s Symposium, the very drunken Alcibiades erupts in a comic and dramatic demonstration of his love for Socrates. When members of the Toronto, Calgary, and Chic...
15 Juni 20231h 48min
