75: Socrates’ Apology

Neema Parvini is well known on Youtube for his channel, Academic Agent, and for his para-academic work at the Academic Agency. He discusses a broad range of topics in political philosophy, and does not shy away from any topic, from elite theory to Marxism, from Julius Evola to Gu ...  Show more

Melanie Coughlin, a scholar whose work focuses on Nishitani and the Kyoto school, joined me for a conversation that will hopefully provide a nice conclusion to the recent focus on Buddhism. We discussed karma, the misleading nature of intentions, Nishitani's theory of affect, emp ...  Show more

Socratic virtue, ignorance and irony in the Platonic dialogues Socrates' claim that no one does wrong willingly 

On the Platonic dialogue written around 380 BCE about an encounter between Socrates and one of the leading Sophists of his day.

What is virtue ("the political art" according to Protagoras), and can it be taught? What are the relations of the various virtues to each othe ...

Ethics against immoralism in a Socratic masterpiece. 

Rhetoric and relativism in Protagoras, Gorgias and other sophists