Resiliency Rounds
Resiliency Rounds is your guide to the Good Life. Hosted by Dr. Aneesh Pakala and Dr. Jeremy Hirshberg. Each episode discusses the Good Life as described in the Great Books of the Western and Eastern world. The conversations cover Plato's dialogues, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Stoic Philosophy, Kant's Categorical Imperative, teachings of the Buddha, and The Bhagvad Gita's non-dualistic philosophy. The audience will get a practical guide on using these ancient texts to resolve their problems in the modern world.
Episodes
68 episodes
Episode 56: Nicomachean Ethics Book III-1: Whom to praise; Whom to blame
Episode 57: Nicomachean Ethics Book III-2: Choices we think we make.
Episode 58: Nicomachean Ethics Book III-3: Aristotelian Courage and the Citizen Soldier
Episode 59: Nicomachean Ethics III-4: Temperance, the antidote to Tyranny
Episode 61: Nicomachean Ethics IV-2: Irate, boastful, contentious and shameless socialite
Episode 62: Nicomachean Ethics V-1: Justice, Injustice, Laws, and Fairness.
Episode 63: Nicomachean Ethics V-3: Law and Justice (Will you pass the Bar?)
Episode 64: Nicomachean Ethics V-4: Where can one find Justice?
What Is Justice? Aristotle on the Just Person, Corporation, and State (Nicomachean Ethics, Book V)In this episode of Resiliency Rounds, Aneesh and Jeremy continue Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (Book V) on justice, using a question-drive...
Episode 30: Plato's Republic Book IV-1: The United State of Mind
In this episode, Eddie and Aneesh discuss the role of the Guardians in preventing the corrupting effects of wealth, poverty, and ambition in the Just City.
Episode 31: Plato's Republic Book IV-2: Wisdom, Courage, and Temperance
In this episode Eddie and Aneesh discuss the Virtues of the Just City.
Episode 32: Plato's Republic Book IV-3: Justice and the Soul
In this episode Eddie and Aneesh discuss Justice within the individual Soul.
Episode 33: Plato's Republic Book V-1: Sex and the City
In this episode, Eddie and Aneesh discuss Socratic ideas about men, women, and child-rearing in the Republic.
Episode 34: Plato's Republic Book V-2: War
In this episode, Eddie and Aneesh discuss the Republic's rules of engagement.
Episode 35: Plato's Republic Book V-3: The Philosopher King
In this episode Eddie and Aneesh discuss the concept of the Philosopher King.
Episode 36: Plato's Republic Book VI-1: The Philosophical Soul
In this episode Eddie and Aneesh discuss the philosophical nature and it's mishandling as "useless" by conventional minds.
Episode 37: Plato's Republic Book VI-2: Facing the Beast
In this episode Eddie and Aneesh reflect on the fate of philosophers in conventional society; as well as their potential ascendancy under the right conditions.
Episode 38: Plato's Republic Book VI-3: The Eye, the Sun, and the Good.
In this episode, Eddie and Aneesh explore the analogies of the Sun and the Divided Line.
Episode 39: Plato's Republic Book VII -1: The Cave
In this episode, Eddie and Aneesh explore Plato's cave allegory.
Episode 40: Plato's Republic Book VII - 2: Being and Becoming
In this episode Eddie and Aneesh discuss the intellectual training of the Guardians and how subjects like Mathematics, Astronomy, Harmonics, and Geometry, coupled with Dialectic discussion, train truth-seeking.