Phronesis

Today, we discuss Seth Benardete's essay "Strauss On Plato." We are joined by special guest Dr. Alex Priou, Instructor in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics, and Society at the University of Colorado, Boulder. We encourage you to check out his new podcast, The New Thinkery, online and on Twitter.

Also, make sure to check out "Plato at a Glance" by Priou, available at Athwart.

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In this episode we are joined by Emily Davis, a PhD student in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Emily guides our discussion through Montaigne's essay "Of the Most Excellent Men."

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In this episode we discussed Michel Foucault's "What is Enlightenment?"

We also reference:

William Lombardo, "Baudelaire's Heirs"

Mark Lilla, "Two Roads for the New French Right"

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In this episode we discuss Isaiah Berlin's "The Originality of Machiavelli" from his collection Against the Current and originally publish in the New York Review of Books.

We also mention essays written by Brad on Plato and on Machiavelli.

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In this episode we discuss Walter Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History."

We also reference Nick Whitaker's essays "Accelerate How?"

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In this episode, we discuss Leo Strauss's lecture "Why We Remain Jews," delivered in February 1962. We also reference the essay "Athens and Jerusalem."

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In our very first episode, we discuss Adrian Vermeule's March 31, 2020 essays in the Atlantic, "Beyond Originalism."

Other pieces that are mentioned in this episode include:

William Lombardo, "Beyond Realism"

Adrian Vermeule, "A Series of Unfortunate Events"

James Patterson, "After Republican Virtue"

We also encourage checking out Verumeule's writing at The Josias and American Affairs.

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