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Episode 44: Are We Living in a Cave? (Part 1)

Episode 44: Are We Living in a Cave? (Part 1)

Update: 2025-01-27
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Are ordinary experience and everyday life hopelessly benighted and delusional, a realm of shadows, full of spectacle and drama but signifying nothing? This week Eric and Taylor descend into the most famous four pages in the history of Western philosophy: Plato’s allegory of the cave. Tune in and overcome your fear of truth, wisdom, and the beautiful.

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Episode 44: Are We Living in a Cave? (Part 1)

Episode 44: Are We Living in a Cave? (Part 1)

Eric Kaplan & Taylor Carman