The New Thinkery
Hosted by Greg and Alex and David · The New Thinkery
4.9from 240 ratings
- 264
- Episodes
- 79
- Transcribed
- 240
- Ratings
- 2020
- First episode
- 852
- YouTube views
About The New Thinkery
The New Thinkery is a podcast devoted to political philosophy and its history, along with its many guises in literature, film, and human experience generally. Named after Socrates' infamous "Thinkery" in Aristophanes' Clouds, The New Thinkery strikes a balance between the seriousness of academia and the playfulness of casual conversation among friends.
- Publisher
- The New Thinkery
- Category
- society & culture · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Jul 2020
- Latest episode
- 31 Mar 2026
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79 of 264 episodes have a transcript.
31 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
Panel: David Bolotin's On Plato's Republic: The 1988 Lecture Notes
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25 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT
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Panel: David Bolotin's On Plato's Republic: The 1988 Lecture Notes
Published 31 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Keffel disappears from his definition of justice more concerned with fulfilling the terms of his contract, settling his accounts, as it were. Masakri's counterexample suggests that perhaps he ought not to have entered those contracts in the first place, arming Athens at the height of her madness and aiding thereby in her collapse. As to the question of the order of things, we do well to wonder whether the poets who guide Keflis to this erroneous self-contentment are trustworthy guys elsewhere too. Now let me speak about Glaucon. Balton offers provocative remarks on Glaucon's torture tests, which he interprets thus, and here again I quote, Now you might think that this torture test is an extreme and irrelevant test of whether anyone is really just, or whether justice is really better than injustice. […]
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- 852
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- 4.9 / 5
- 240 ratings
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- Engagement
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