Episode 03 - The Examined Life
Jeff and Darron take a look at the ancient wisdom of Socrates as conveyed by Plato in “The Apology.” They discuss how they came to Socrates through the discovery of, and subsequent engagement with a “Great Books” curriculum, as well as about the value of living an examined life and the true wisdom of knowing what you don’t know. They conclude with a discussion of what these ideas mean in the context of today’s cultural moment, as well as how the ideas inform their thinking about the Beautiful Illusions concept.
Notes:
2:04 - The Art of Manliness Podcast episode #430 “Why You Need to Join the Great Conversation About the Great Books”
5:52 - The Art of Manliness Podcast episode #587 “How to Get More Pleasure and Fulfillment From Your Reading”
7:18 - Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais
8:23 - Maybe it was The book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Chritchley?
11:23 - The Pre-Socratic Philosophers
19:21 - “I know that I know nothing”
26:23 - List of British Invasion artists
26:28 - The 1988 New York Yankees
28:15 - The Sophists
30:10 - Dr. Anthony Fauci - “We don’t know everything about this virus”
30:38 - What is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker
33:28 - Bayesian inference, frequently referenced by Sean Carroll
36:25 - Protein Synthesis
47:21 - “Of 2 Minds: How Fast and Slow Thinking Shape Perception and Choice” from Scientifc American, excerpted from Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman