Episode 1: “The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living” (2022 Re-Edit) (opens in new tab)

Discussing Plato's "Apology." This reading is all about how Socrates is on trial for acting like an ass and proceeds to act like an ass and so is convicted. In this our inaugural 2009 discussion (freshly remixed in 2022), Mark, Seth, and Wes talk about how philosophers are arrogant bastards who neglect their children, how people of all political stripes don't usually examine their fundamental beliefs (but probably should), why it might be better to know you know nothing than to only think tha...