Readings in Platonism

Oct 09 2024 68 ep. 67 mins 2
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**This is not a podcast** This is simply a repository for audio recordings that I do not have space for on my phone. The recordings consist of my own my readings of secondary literature on the Platonic tradition in antiquity and in modern Plato studies. The recordings are rough, unedited and not of professional quality. **They exist solely for my own educational benefit** (and perhaps for that of others who may stumble upon them). All credit is owed to the authors of the various works being read.

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[P&N] Ch.7: Aristotle the Platonist

Oct 09 2024 81 mins  
Chapter 7 considers the contributions of Aristotle to the completion of the Platonic project. Though Aristotle certainly dissented from many of Plato's claims, the focus of this chapter is on the principles the two share in common, as well as Aristotle's arguments for these principles and some of the illuminating things he had to say about the application of these principles. Arist

[P&N] Ch. 6: The Centrality of the Idea of the Good in the Platonic System (pt.2)

Oct 08 2024 93 mins  
Chapter 6 investigates the centrality of the Idea of the Good for Plato's ethics. Just as the Idea of the Good is largely ignored in the bulk of Anglo-American scholarship on Plato's metaphysics, so too it is given little attention in scholarship on Plato's ethics. In this chapter, Gerson demonstrates that any account of Platonic ethics will be deficient if the superordinate Idea o

[P&N] Ch.5: The Centrality of the Idea of the Good in the Platonic System (pt.1)

Aug 24 2023 120 mins  
@00:21 - The Idea of the Good, Unhypothetical First Principle of All......................................... @19:07 - First Principles in Parmenides........................ @43:28 - First Principles in Sophist............................@1:22:02 - First Principles in Philebus........................ @1:34:10 - First Principles in Timaeus........................ @1:44:53 - Aristotl

[P&N] Ch.4: Plato on Being and Knowing

Aug 04 2022 137 mins  
@00:18 - Forms as Explanatory Entities @40:45 - Eternity and Time @1:11:49 - Nominalism and its Connection to Relativism @1:39:07 - The Nature and Possibility of Knowledge @2:07:15 - Some Exigencies of Knowledge and Belief

[P&N] Ch.3: Plato's Critique of Naturalism

Aug 04 2022 98 mins  
Lloyd P. Gerson's 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦. Chapter 3: Plato's Critique of Naturalism @00:16 - Some Hermeneutical Assumptions @12:48 - The Turn from Naturalism to Metaphysics @24:10 - Socrates's "Autobiog

[P&N] Ch.2: Platonism vs. Naturalism

Aug 04 2022 64 mins  
Chapter 2 of Lloyd Gerson's 'Platonism and Naturalism: The Possibility of Philosophy' lays out the contours of the opposition between Platonism and Naturalism. Gerson once again spells out his understanding of Platonism in terms of the five "antis" (positions rejected by all Platonists) he first introduced in his book 'Aristotle and Other Platonists'. Accordingly, it is the rejecti

[P&N] Platonism and Naturalism: Ch.1: Introduction

Aug 04 2022 39 mins  
Introductory chapter to Lloyd Gerson's 2020 book, Platonism and Naturalism: The Possibility of Philosophy. Gerson begins by considering the claim made by (anti-Platonist) philosopher Richard Rorty that, Platonism and philosophy are more or less identical. in unpacking this shocking claim, Gerson discusses what is at stake in it: namely, the question of whether there is a distinctiv

Proclus: The One, the Henads and the Principles

Dec 26 2021 74 mins  
Gerd Van Reil's essay

iamblicus and henands again by John Dillon

Dec 23 2021 20 mins  
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iamblichus' exegesis of Parmenides' Hypotheses

Dec 23 2021 69 mins  
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