These are all important, in their own way, call it a treasure hunt and collect them all…

“Know thyself.” – The Oracle

“Know thine enemy and know thyself; in a hundred battles, you will not be defeated.” – Sun Tzu

“You don’t know me. You don’t know me at all.” – Lisa Loeb, ‘You Don’t Know Me’

“Just one word. Are you listening? Plastics.” – The Graduate

“And Alexander wept, seeing as he had no more worlds to conquer.” – Someone Guessing

“I didn’t know I had permission to murder and to maim.’ – Leonard Cohen

“But that's not important right now.” – Leslie Nielsen

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When the facts change, I change my mind – what do you do, sir?” – John Maynard Keynes

“Now we’re talking price.” – Winston Churchill

“Think for yourself, schmuck.” – Hagbard Celine, Illuminatus!

“Have you forgotten doublethink?” – George Orwell, 1984

“You are trying to solve the wrong problem using the wrong methods based on a wrong model of the [...]

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Outline:

(05:19) Editors Note

(07:28) A Difference Of Opinion

(10:28) An Overview

(10:45) You Dont Know Me

(11:51) Untimely Questions

(15:41) The Unexamined Life is Worth Living

(20:59) The Quest For The Unexamined Life

(26:19) Not Everyone Wants To or Should Philosophize All Day

(28:49) The Seinfeld Fallacy

(30:44) Socrates was the Lying GOAT of Hypocritical False Humility

(36:30) Hearing Voices

(39:25) Simpsons Ancient Greeks Did It

(42:56) The Proposed Fourth Option: Socratic Inquiry

(47:59) No Really The Position is Nothing Else Matters

(51:52) The War on Wavering and Nebulosity

(59:09) Living Your Best Life

(01:03:17) Introducing the Socratic Method (the real one)

(01:04:44) Prove Me Wrong, Kids

(01:06:35) Socrates Asserts Wrong Conclusions That Are Wrong

(01:11:02) You Can Question Your Beliefs

(01:19:39) True Opinions Do Not Only Do Good

(01:22:29) Meno Plays the Fool

(01:25:48) The Central Magicians Trick

(01:26:57) The Gaslighting of Alcibiades

(01:40:06) The Measure of a Fight

(01:49:27) The Good Fight

(01:54:42) The Curious Case of Euthyphro

(01:59:29) You Should Be Sad About That

(02:05:11) People Respond To Incentives

(02:12:30) Self Versus Other

(02:13:49) Socrates Declares Humans Have Unified Minds Free Of Various Biases

(02:22:27) Revenge

(02:39:11) Legal Systems Very Different From Our Own

(02:44:53) Socrates Claims The Just And The Advantageous Are Identical

(02:56:40) First Up: Utilitarianism

(02:59:28) The Main Rival: Deontology (Kantianism? Stoicism?)

(03:05:28) A Trolly Problem

(03:07:13) The Third and Correct Option: Virtue Ethics

(03:15:14) You Are Not Omniscient

(03:21:42) The Hardest Thing In This World Is To Live In It

(03:27:59) They Call It Utopia For A Reason

(03:29:19) The End... Of Book One

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