Book Review: Open Socrates (Part 1)
Don't Worry About the Vase Podcast
The Inexhaustible Socratic Appetite
Zvi criticizes Socrates' refusal to 'end' inquiries and the social cost when interlocutors must leave for practical matters.
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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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