The Eternal Argument

The Eternal Argument
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From Myth to Machine — The Story of Human Thought. A podcast that tells the story of human thought from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Each episode is a story about people wrestling with the hardest questions: What is real? What is good? What are we?

Episodes

  1. 01/12/2025

    Ep 12: The Islamic Golden Age: Avicenna & Averroes

    The Aristotle Preservation Project — While Europe sleeps, Baghdad translates the Greeks. They reconcile the Quran with Aristotelian logic.

    48 min

  2. 01/11/2025

    Ep 11: Augustine of Hippo: The Architect of the West

    Faith, Time, and Sin — The Fall of Rome (410 AD). Augustine writes City of God to explain why the earthly empire failed and the heavenly one endures.

    1h 2m

  3. 01/10/2025

    Ep 10: Neoplatonism: Plotinus

    The One & The Emanations — Late Antiquity (The decline of Rome). Philosophy turns mystical, preparing the ground for Monotheism.

    1h 5m

  4. 01/09/2025

    Ep 9: The Skeptics: Pyrrho & Sextus Empiricus

    Suspended Judgment — The clash of dogmatic schools. The Skeptics find peace by admitting they know nothing.

    53 min

  5. 01/08/2025

    Ep 8: The Stoics: Zeno, Epictetus, & Marcus Aurelius

    Control & Duty — Roman Empire. From a slave (Epictetus) to an Emperor (Marcus), Stoicism becomes the operating system of Rome.

    55 min

  6. 01/07/2025

    Ep 7: Epicurus & The Cynics

    Pleasure vs. Dogs — Alexander the Great is dead; the world is massive and scary. Epicurus says "hide in the garden"; Diogenes says "bark at the emperor."

    1h 6m

  7. 01/06/2025

    Ep 6: Aristotle II: Virtue Ethics

    The Nicomachean Ethics — How to live a good life in a polis.

    43 min

  8. 01/05/2025

    Ep 5: Aristotle I: The Toolset

    Metaphysics & Logic — The Macedonian Empire rises. Aristotle categorizes the physical world, inventing biology and logic.

    41 min

  9. 01/04/2025

    Ep 4: Plato II: The Republic

    Politics & The Soul — The failure of Athenian democracy (which killed Socrates). Plato designs a utopia ruled by philosopher-kings.

    47 min

  10. 01/03/2025

    Ep 3: Plato I: The Forms

    The Theory of Forms & The Cave — Post-Socrates Athens. Plato tries to stabilize a crumbling world by positing a perfect, eternal realm beyond our senses.

    41 min

  11. 01/02/2025

    Ep 2: The Sophists & Socrates

    The Invention of Ethics — The Golden Age of Athens. Democracy is rising, but so is relativism. The Sophists teach how to win arguments; Socrates asks what is true.

    45 min

  12. 01/01/2025

    Ep 1: The Pre-Socratics: Thales to Parmenides

    Water, Fire, and Flux — Ancient Greece (Ionia & Italy). A time of fragmented city-states where thinkers began stripping away the gods to find the "Stuff" (Arche) of the universe.

    53 min
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From Myth to Machine — The Story of Human Thought. A podcast that tells the story of human thought from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Each episode is a story about people wrestling with the hardest questions: What is real? What is good? What are we?

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