Ion by Plato ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]

News From Nowhere by William Morris audiobook. Genre: scifi In News From Nowhere, William Morris blends dream vision, social criticism, and speculative fiction into a vivid journey through a transformed England. After falling asleep following a heated discussion about politics an ...  Show more

The Revolutions of Civilization by William Matthew Flinders Petrie audiobook. Genre: history In this compact work of historical interpretation, pioneering archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie sets out to explain why great cultures seem to rise, peak, decline, and return ...  Show more

He learned from Socrates, taught Aristotle and is often described as the key figure in the history of philosophy. But what do we actually know about the life of Plato of Athens? And why was his work so pioneering? Plato’s latest biographer, Robin Waterfield, joins Rob Attar to ex ...  Show more

Not only does Plato's Symposium hype up love between men as quite literally godlike, but it also provides us with the absolutely wild idea of Aristophanean soulmates... Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve ...  Show more

In this week's episode, we learn about Plato's "Symposium", which you might think of as philosophy's version of fan fiction. We also learn about Plato's "Theory of Forms" and ask ourselves what makes a tree, well, a tree. This leads to discussion of Plato's famous "Allegory of th ...  Show more

Not only does Plato's Symposium hype up love between men as quite literally godlike, but it also provides us with the absolutely wild idea of Aristophanean soulmates... Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve ...  Show more