Utopia, Boredom, and Meaning

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* 00:00:00 - Introduction

* 00:04:36 - Editor’s Note

* 00:06:48 - A Difference Of Opinion

* 00:09:39 - An Overview

* 00:09:58 - You Don’t Know Me

* 00:11:01 - Untimely Questions

* 00:15:04 - The Unexamined Life is Worth Living

* 00:20:19 - The Quest For The Unexamined Life

* 00:25:26 - Not Everyone Wants To or Should Philosophize All Day

* 00:28:01 - The Seinfeld Fallacy

* 00:29:59 - Socrates was the Lying GOAT of Hypocritical False Humility

* 00:36:03 - Hearing Voices

* 00:39:00 - Simpsons Ancient Greeks Did It

* 00:42:22 - The Proposed Fourth Option: Socratic Inquiry

* 00:47:37 - No Really The Position is Nothing Else Matters

* 00:51:46 - The War on Wavering and Nebulosity

* 00:59:14 - Living Your Best Life

* 01:03:21 - Introducing the Socratic Method (the real one)

* 01:04:46 - Prove Me Wrong, Kids

* 01:06:30 - Socrates Asserts Wrong Conclusions That Are Wrong

* 01:11:10 - You Can Question Your Beliefs

* 01:20:37 - True Opinions Do Not Only Do Good

* 01:23:42 - Meno Plays the Fool

* 01:27:08 - The Central Magician’s Trick

* 01:28:13 - The Gaslighting of Alcibiades

* 01:41:42 - The Measure of a Fight

* 01:50:50 - The Good Fight

* 01:56:25 - The Curious Case of Euthyphro

* 02:00:45 - You Should Be Sad About That

* 02:06:10 - People Respond To Incentives

* 02:13:38 - Self Versus Other

* 02:15:05 - Socrates Declares Humans Have Unified Minds Free Of Various Biases

* 02:24:05 - Revenge

* 02:40:41 - Legal Systems Very Different From Our Own

* 02:45:49 - Socrates Claims The Just And The Advantageous Are Identical

* 02:56:52 - First Up: Utilitarianism

* 02:59:54 - The Main Rival: Deontology (Kantianism? Stoicism?)

* 03:05:51 - A Trolly Problem

* 03:07:37 - The Third and Correct Option: Virtue Ethics

* 03:16:07 - You Are Not Omniscient

* 03:22:57 - The Hardest Thing In This World Is To Live In It

* 03:29:27 - They Call It Utopia For A Reason

* 03:30:50 - The End… Of Book One

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