PREMIUM-Episode 18: Plato: What Is Knowledge?

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey

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Ep. 402: Plato Talks Homer: Hippias Minor and Ion (Part Two)

Finishing up on Hippias Minor and moving on to the Ion, where Socrates convinces a rhapsode (someone who does public, dramatic readings of Homer and is a Homer scholar) that his talent is a matter of inspiration and not knowledge. So how does this relate to Plato's dismissal of p ... Show more

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PEL Presents NEM#262: Bruce Cockburn Expands Political/Spiritual Folk

Bruce has released 34 solo albums between 1970 and the present. He's a very accomplished finger-picker and often plays entirely solo but has also written rock, jazz, Christian, and 80s syntho songs. We discuss "Louis Collins" from The Blood of Others (2026), "Look How Far" from B ... Show more

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