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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
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| Ep 12: The Islamic Golden Age: Avicenna & Averroes | 12 Jan 2025 | 00:47:49 | |
The Aristotle Preservation Project â While Europe sleeps, Baghdad translates the Greeks. They reconcile the Quran with Aristotelian logic. | |||
| Ep 11: Augustine of Hippo: The Architect of the West | 11 Jan 2025 | 01:01:42 | |
Faith, Time, and Sin â The Fall of Rome (410 AD). Augustine writes City of God to explain why the earthly empire failed and the heavenly one endures. | |||
| Ep 10: Neoplatonism: Plotinus | 10 Jan 2025 | 01:05:18 | |
The One & The Emanations â Late Antiquity (The decline of Rome). Philosophy turns mystical, preparing the ground for Monotheism. | |||
| Ep 9: The Skeptics: Pyrrho & Sextus Empiricus | 09 Jan 2025 | 00:52:49 | |
Suspended Judgment â The clash of dogmatic schools. The Skeptics find peace by admitting they know nothing. | |||
| Ep 8: The Stoics: Zeno, Epictetus, & Marcus Aurelius | 08 Jan 2025 | 00:55:03 | |
Control & Duty â Roman Empire. From a slave (Epictetus) to an Emperor (Marcus), Stoicism becomes the operating system of Rome. | |||
| Ep 7: Epicurus & The Cynics | 07 Jan 2025 | 01:05:53 | |
Pleasure vs. Dogs â Alexander the Great is dead; the world is massive and scary. Epicurus says "hide in the garden"; Diogenes says "bark at the emperor." | |||
| Ep 6: Aristotle II: Virtue Ethics | 06 Jan 2025 | 00:43:23 | |
The Nicomachean Ethics â How to live a good life in a polis. | |||
| Ep 5: Aristotle I: The Toolset | 05 Jan 2025 | 00:40:40 | |
Metaphysics & Logic â The Macedonian Empire rises. Aristotle categorizes the physical world, inventing biology and logic. | |||
| Ep 4: Plato II: The Republic | 04 Jan 2025 | 00:47:29 | |
Politics & The Soul â The failure of Athenian democracy (which killed Socrates). Plato designs a utopia ruled by philosopher-kings. | |||
| Ep 3: Plato I: The Forms | 03 Jan 2025 | 00:40:40 | |
The Theory of Forms & The Cave â Post-Socrates Athens. Plato tries to stabilize a crumbling world by positing a perfect, eternal realm beyond our senses. | |||
| Ep 2: The Sophists & Socrates | 02 Jan 2025 | 00:44:59 | |
The Invention of Ethics â The Golden Age of Athens. Democracy is rising, but so is relativism. The Sophists teach how to win arguments; Socrates asks what is true. | |||
| Ep 1: The Pre-Socratics: Thales to Parmenides | 01 Jan 2025 | 00:52:37 | |
Water, Fire, and Flux â Ancient Greece (Ionia & Italy). A time of fragmented city-states where thinkers began stripping away the gods to find the "Stuff" (Arche) of the universe. | |||
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