Athens Corner
These are previews from my website AthensCorner.com of in-depth discussions on the Western world's greatest books in philosophy and political philosophy. There are also occasional previews for my Fathers & Sons series on the website devoted to guiding and assisting fathers who themselves want to educate their sons in the great books, and so the emphasis is upon examples of excellence of virtue.
Athens Corner
Plato's Cave pt 1 Homer, Plato, and Heidegger
Here is the first in a series of lectures with @alejandrophase2 tracing the imagery of Enlightenment in the Western philosophical tradition. Here I discuss the meaning of the cave of the Cyclops in Homer's Odyssey and Socrates's image of the cave in the Republic. Afterwards, Alejandro provides invaluable insights into the imagery of the Cave in the Republic made by Heidegger