Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2022-08-04
Books mentioned on 276. The Best of Conservative Education | Larry P. Arnn
Larry P. Arnn is the twelfth president of Hillsdale College.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Dialogues of Plato
The Dialogues of Plato by Plato is a foundational collection of classical Greek philosophical texts utilizing conversational formats to explore ethics, politics, and metaphysics.
Discussed“uh plato writes a letter he wrote 13 letters but one of them apparently is his the seventh and he says how would you capture the teaching of socrates it's just in these conversations and so he invented the dialogue for that purpose”
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The Ethics of Aristotle
The Ethics of Aristotle is a foundational work of ancient Greek philosophy that investigates the nature of human happiness, virtue, character development, and the pursuit of the golden mean.
Discussed“one can understand aristotle by reading the first lines the first line of the metaphysics is the human being stretches himself out to know”
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Own book Liberty and Learning
“and he said you've written some books and i said i have i've written three he said i've read one of them it's good”