Plato's Cave
A philosophy podcast hosted by the lowly grad student, Jordan Myers
Displaying all 4 Episode of Plato's Cave with the tag “society”.
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Ep. 63 - Moral Obligations and Social Commands (Celebrating Susan Wolf)
August 3rd, 2023 | 1 hr 30 mins
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In this episode, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss Wolf's essay "Moral Obligations and Social Commands," which asks where the true authority of moral enforcement originates from.
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Ep. 45 - "What is the Point of Equality?" by Elizabeth Anderson (PPE series prt2)
August 4th, 2022 | 2 hrs 42 mins
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In part 2 of the Political Philosophy Reading Group series, Adam, Giffin, and I discuss the paper "What is the Point of Equality?" by Elizabeth Anderson, which investigated the role of luck in creating egalitarian outcomes. Anderson focuses on a capabilities approach to political equality which differs from some common intuitions held by luck egalitarians.
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Ep. 7 - Public Historian Justin Clark
April 24th, 2020 | 1 hr 25 mins
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In this episode, I speak with Public Historian Just Clark about the current social and economic situation surrounding COVID and about the underlying philosophy and logic of different political ideologies in general.
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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.