The Core Curriculum, Series 2, Episode 10: The Republic, Book 10

Michial Farmer , 18 March 2020.

Christina Bieber Lake, Nathan Gilmour, and Michial Farmer wrap up the network’s discussion of Plato’s Republic.

Show Notes

Our translations of the Republic: Benjamin Jowett (1888) and Richard W. Sterling and William C. Scott (1985).
N.B.: Hans Christian Ørsted, not Wittgenstein, coined the term “thought-experiment.”
Take a breath, because we mention a lot of secondary books in this episode: Jacques Derrida, Dissemination (1967); Richard Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope (2000); Pierre Hadot, What Is Ancient Philosophy? (1995); Christina Bieber Lake, The Incarnational Art of Flannery O’Connor (2005); John D. Caputo, Deconstruction in a Nutshell (1997); M.H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp (1953).
Plato’s Phaedrus argues against writing in a written dialogue.
Christina hates Alexander Pope.
Augustine’s response to Homer is not that different from Plato’s.
Aristotle wants us to drain our pity and fear via katharsis.
Plato must have hated Sophocles’s Ajax.
Pythagoreans weren’t allowed to eat beans.
Thoreau wants to eat a raw chipmunk, though he thinks better of it.
Dante’s damned souls have lost the good of reason.
Augustine (and Heidegger) distrusts curiositas and cupiditas.
Would Plato approve of Max Beckmann’s work?
It was (Percy) Shelley who called poets the “unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Our theme music was provided by Blue Dot Sessions.

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