Plato's Cave
A philosophy podcast hosted by the lowly grad student, Jordan Myers
Displaying all 5 Episode of Plato's Cave with the tag “stoicism”.
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Ep. 73 - Chris Franklin: Valuing (Angry) Blame
June 14th, 2024 | 1 hr 47 mins
amia, anger, angry, aptness, blame, cave, disappointment, emotion, feeling, forgiveness, franklin, furies, grad school, graduate, grief, group, hate, instrumental, intrinsic, jordan, myers, nussbaum, outrage, payback, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, rage, reading, retribution, revenge, seneca, sher, srinivasan, stoic, stoicism, transition, university of houston, vice, virtue
In the final discussion of the series, we dive into Franklin's work on the value of angry blame: can anger best--really, only--express certain features of am adequate response to wrongdoing?
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Ep. 72 - Amia Srinivasan: The Aptness of Anger
June 7th, 2024 | 1 hr 29 mins
amia, anger, angry, aptness, cave, disappointment, emotion, feeling, forgiveness, furies, grad school, graduate, grief, group, hate, instrumental, intrinsic, jordan, myers, nussbaum, outrage, payback, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, rage, reading, retribution, revenge, seneca, srinivasan, stoic, stoicism, transition, university of houston, vice, virtue
We dive into Srinivasan's amazing (but at the end of the day, I think not fully right) paper, "The Aptness of Anger."
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Ep. 71 - Martha Nussbaum on Anger and Forgiveness (Part 2)
March 14th, 2024 | 1 hr 27 mins
anger, angry, cave, emotion, feeling, forgiveness, furies, grad school, graduate, group, hate, instrumental, intrinsic, jordan, myers, nussbaum, outrage, payback, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, rage, reading, retribution, revenge, seneca, stoic, stoicism, transition, university of houston, vice, virtue
Part two of Martha Nussbaum's book, Anger and Forgiveness.
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Ep. 70 - Martha Nussbaum's Anger and Forgiveness (Part 1)
March 7th, 2024 | 1 hr 48 mins
anger, angry, cave, emotion, feeling, forgiveness, furies, grad school, graduate, group, hate, instrumental, intrinsic, jordan, myers, nussbaum, outrage, payback, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, rage, reading, retribution, revenge, seneca, stoic, stoicism, transition, university of houston, vice, virtue
In the second episode of our series on anger, we dive into the first chapters of Martha Nussbaum's recent book, Anger and Forgiveness. The first two chapters focus on the myth of payback's value.
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Ep. 69 - Anger: Seneca & Stoicism
February 23rd, 2024 | 1 hr 51 mins
anger, angry, cave, emotion, feeling, grad school, graduate, group, hate, jordan, myers, nussbaum, outrage, phd, philosophy, plato, plato's cave, rage, reading, seneca, stoic, stoicism, university of houston
Episode 1 of a new series on the philosophy of emotion--specifically, anger. We discuss some introductory questions and Seneca's 'On Anger.'