Plato's Cave

A philosophy podcast hosted by the lowly grad student, Jordan Myers

About the show

I'm Jordan Myers and I'm a PhD student studying philosophy at USC. Plato's Cave is my attempt to exit... well, the cave. It's a philosophy podcast meant to help me guide my ascent to the real world, the truth, the place where life is worth living; and apparently that means giving up a regular job with good pay to pursue the security of the academic job market - the philosophy job market nonetheless! Join me on my journey as I cover philosophical works and speak with the best philosophical minds I can convince to come on the show!

Episodes

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    Ep. 2.2 - (ft.) Pastor Paul Vanderklay

    March 15th, 2020  |  1 hr 23 mins
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    In this episode, I spoke with Paul about many interesting topics: God, my religious experiences, his pastoral work, Jordan Peterson's religiosity, interpreting scripture, and more. This was a really interesting and fun episode, and I hope you think so too!

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    Ep. 2.4 - Aristotle's Virtue Ethics

    March 15th, 2020  |  1 hr 11 mins
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    Part 1 of a 2 part series on Aristotelian virtue ethics.

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    Ep. 2.1 - (ft.) The Dirty History Podcast

    March 14th, 2020  |  2 hrs 8 mins
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    In this episode of Plato's Cave, I invite on Adam from That's BS and two guests from the Dirty History Podcast, Thomas and Woodrow. We talked about WWI and WWII, Imperialism, Rhetoric in history, Random history topics, Moral relativism, and Ethics in history. This was an amazing podcast to record and I hope you like it as well.

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    Ep. 1 - The Allegory of the Cave

    March 2nd, 2020  |  38 mins 29 secs
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    In this episode of Plato's Cave, I unpack The Allegory of the Cave from Plato's Republic and Thus Spoke Zarathustra from Friedrich Nietzsche and use both works to explain what I'm hoping to accomplish with this podcast.