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Selected References:

• 2:00 - See the Ten Year Reading Plan from The Great Conversation Reading Group
• 3:07 - A Game of Thrones Novel & HBO TV Series 
• 4:34 - Bo Knows Bo, No Direction Home, On The Road
• 5:58 - See “Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound.”
• 7:55 - See The Republic by Plato, Ethics by Aristotle, and Politics by Aristotle
• 8:41 - See System I & System II and Thinking Fast & Slow
• 11:26 - Dunning-Kruger Effect
• 12:23 - BI Episode 05 - “It’s Alive!” 
• 14:02 - See  “Aristotle The Philosopher Who Knew It All”
• 17:33 - See “Philosophers Justifying Slavery” from BBC Ethics Guide
• 20:02 - See The Declaration of Independence - “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…”
• 21:40 - “Don’t criticize what you can’t understand” from the The Times They Are A-Changin’ by Bob Dylan
• 22:05 - See “The Work Required To Have An Opinion” from the Farnam Street Blog
• 22:44 - Yo-Yo Ma's rendition of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, Prélude (YouTube video)
• 25:00 - See Aristotle - Happiness and Political Association
• 25:55 - Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• 27:57 - See Phainomena and the Endoxic Method
• 29:15 - See The History of Political Science
• 32:15 - See Thrasymachus and justice as the “advantage of the stronger”
• 33:21 - BI Episode 03 - “The Examined Life”
• 37:29 - Nature vs Nurture
• 39:17 - BI Episode 4 - “Too Cultured”
• 39:42 - Plato divides his just society into three classes: the producers, the auxiliaries, and the guardians, which he then analogizes to the tripartite soul which comprises the appetite, the spirit, and the reason. For more see Key Terms: Auxiliaries, Guardians, Producers  and Key Terms: Tripartite Soul, Appetite, Spirit, Reason
• 43:49 - See “Freud: Id, Ego, and Superego” at Simply Psychology
• 44:28 - See Jonathan Haidt: The Contributions of a Moral Psychologist and The Happiness Hypothesis

This episode was recorded in January 2020

The “Beautiful Illusions Theme” was performed by Darron Vigliotti (guitar) and Joseph Vigliotti (drums), and was written and recorded by Darron Vigliotti