Philosophy by the Book

What are the greatest pleasures? Is a life of knowledge or a life of pleasure the greatest good? Can a life without pain be also free of pleasure?

What's better, pleasure or knowledge? Or maybe a mix of both? Are things in the world limited, or unlimited? Or maybe a mix of both? And what does this second set of questions have to do with the first.

What exactly does it mean to be a king? And more importantly, what if we can't find a good one? Does it make sense to create laws? And if someone comes along that seems better than the laws, should we follow him?

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How is a king like a weaver? Are comparisons and simplifications even helpful? And what exactly does a king do?

Finally we demonstrate if its possible to lie. Turns out that it is. We give a final definition of a sophist as well.

What exactly is a Sophist? And how do we go about defining anything for that matter?

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Is knowledge Justified True Belief? How can we know that we know what knowledge is?

Plato's Theaetetus part 3, final.

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Is knowledge true judgement? Or is there still a little something missing? Is your soul more of a block of wax or an aviary full of birds?

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This week we begin an examination of epistemology as it found its roots in Plato's Theaetetus. This part one episode focuses on the first definition of knowledge found in the Theaetetus, that knowledge is perception.

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This week we examine problems in the theory of forms in Plato's Parmenides.