Book · recommended on 2 episodes
Plato's Dialogues
Plato
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Plato
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This book by Plato has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: John Vervaeke, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-04-10 and the most recent from 2023-02-24. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“Plato's Dialogues and Plotinus' Ennead... Those books are sacred to me... I read Plato. It transforms me”— John Vervaeke
The guest here is John Vervaeke: Professor of psychology and cognitive science at the University of Toronto, director of its Consciousness and Wisdom Studies Laboratory, and creator of the YouTube series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis and After Socrates. Cognitive scientist John Vervaeke unpacks four ways of knowing, flow, wisdom, and how an ecology of practices addresses the meaning crisis.
“two of them we've already discussed one is plato's dialogues which i started reading when i was like 13”— guest
The guest here is Tyler Cowen: Economist at George Mason University, co-creator of the Marginal Revolution blog, and author of books including Big Business, The Great Stagnation, and Average Is Over. He hosts the Conversations with Tyler podcast and is known as a polymath with deep interests in art and food. Economist Tyler Cowen riffs with Lex Fridman on growth, weirdos, capitalism, crypto, art, food, and why being strange fuels innovation.
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