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Stagione 3
S03 E10 - Plato's Protagoras, Part 2: Is Virtue One Thing or Many?
Is there a first principle of virtue? If virtue is knowledge that can be taught, does the teacher need to know the limits of virtue as a single thing - or does virtue consist of a range of attributes, each with different limits th...
S03 E09 - Plato's Protagoras, Part 1: Can Virtue Be Taught?
Plato’s dialogue Protagoras revolves around the question of whether virtue can be taught. If it can, then how do we define virtue? Is there a universal form for virtue, one thing alone that defines virtue regardless of our cultura...
S03 E08 - Plato's Philebus, Part 3: The Philosopher's Arithmetic
In our exercise of reason to judge the harmonious mixture of pleasure and knowledge in the good life, Socrates ranks first the skill of measurement. In the conclusion of Plato’s Philebus, we learn that measuring the combination o...
S03 E07 - Plato’s Philebus, Part 2: Does the Universe Have a Soul and Reason?
Where does the human soul come from, if not the universe of which we are part? The question that Socrates poses relates to his assertion that everything comes to be from a cause, as he and Protarchus search for the causes of the ...
S03 E06 - Dialogue on the Philebus, Part 1: The Universe of Memory, Knowledge, and Limits
What is the good? Why do we each measure the good differently, and what calculation do we apply to know the more from the less? Can we really know the good unless we fall in love with the good? These and other questions echoed man...