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Blinded by the Light (Plato's Cave Pt. 2) is the 290th episode of the Very Bad Wizards podcast, released on August 06, 2024.
Opening Quote
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Show Notes
edit edit sourceDavid and Tamler continue their discussion of Plato's allegory of the cave. We talk about the connections with mystical traditions including Gnosticism, Sufism, and Buddhist paths to awakening. We also dig deeper into what Socrates calls 'dialectic' – what allows this method to journey towards the first principle (the Form of the Good) and then double back to justify the initial assumptions made at the start? And if only philosophers can embark on this journey, why does everyone think of them as useless and corrupt? Plus we look at some research that attempts to provide empirical support for 'terror management theory' which makes us yearn for the unfalsifiability of Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death.
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- Neoplatonism
- Neoplatonism and Gnosticism
- Plato's Unwritten Doctrines