Ep. 086 - On Plato’s Republic
Magnus Podcast: Conversations from the Catacombs of Liberal Education
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The Republic: A Dialogue With Socrates
The Republic is this kind of text where sometimes some professors are notorious for assigning it and then getting through like the first four books in entire semester we're not going to do that. So what I really mean by the opening scene is everything before they actually get to the house of Kefelis or the house of Palamrakis it's the first page and a half or so. But the first word in Greek is kata-bane which is the verb I went down or I descended It's the opposite of anabasis which is ascent or ascension kata basis is a descent from somewhere higher to somewhere lower if you read your Homer Odysseus performed his k
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