S2E19 Modern Crises, Ancient Wisdom: A Conversation with Spencer Klavan
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The Importance of Plato's Tameis in the Curriculum
Tameis is kind of a literary sequel to the republic, you don't even need to talk about to tell you what it is. In Tameis you get this picture which will become very important from medieval cosmology of the world as an organism shaped by one Demir but with scutter subsidiary gods or we might know called them angels who kind of govern the different spheres. This was not just a an article of belief for a lot of early scientists it was a motivating concept for Copernicus, Galileo and so on. And there are people who've written about this all over the book that can't really make sense without God yeah well can you give me a specific example of
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