Plato, every mention
9 scenes · ← back to Plato
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Aristotle Koskinas 7Nir Eyal 3Jonathan Haidt 3Scott Page 2Nancy Sherman 2Jim Collins 1Alexander Shelley 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Plato comes up
#127 Best of 2021: Conversations of the Year
#126 Nancy Sherman: Soldiers and Stoics
- ▶ 31:52 Nancy Sherman Aristotle or Plato, his predecessors, also called goods.
- ▶ 38:02 Nancy Sherman Think of Plato's Republic, think of Aristotle's idea that we're social animals, and we have all these roles or persona that we wear, and many of those roles do involve status, and many of those roles that involve status involve power.
#104 Nir Eyal: Mastering Indistraction
#67 Jim Collins: Keeping the Flywheel in Motion
- ▶ 44:10 Jim Collins Play-Doh on the way down to Santa Fe.
#61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad
- ▶ 43:10 Jonathan Haidt And I, and I was referring back to the, the story of the Ring of Gyges from Plato's Republic, in which, um, Plato asks, if a man had the mythical Ring of Gyges, in which if you turn the stone, the, you know, the gem inwards on your hand,… 3 times in the scene
#55 Scott Page: Becoming a Model Thinker
- ▶ 37:41 Scott Page So I think the simple models we teach people, because we thought, like Plato, it was Plato's famous quote about carving nature at its joints, right? 2 times in the scene
Aristotle Koskinas on Greek History
- ▶ 36:28 Aristotle Koskinas Uh, with Socrates, in Athens, who was active during the second half of the fifth century BC, uh, this, uh, Socrates, or at least the Socrates we know through the, the writings of Plato, because Socrates never wrote anything. 7 times in the scene
#9 Maestro Alexander Shelley: The Architecture of Music
- ▶ 30:55 Alexander Shelley This ideal or idealized world, the world of, of ideas where we have, you know, forms like Plato thought of them, um, that we can never, as soon as we interact with it, it ceases to be because it's now the phenomenal world.