Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2024-11-14
Chris Williamson & Donald Robertson: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #864
The True Story Of History’s Greatest Philosopher - Donald Robertson - #864
Donald Robertson is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, an author and an expert on ancient philosophy. If you were to divide philosophy into two eras, it would be pre-Socratic and post-Socratic.
Donald Robertson recommended Plato's Apology and Socrates in Love by Armand D'Angour, and discussed On Clemency by Roger L'Estrange and others and On Anger by Aubrey Stewart and others. Chris Williamson discussed Organon and Stone's Rules by Roger Stone and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Plato's Apology
Recommended“and you know I seldom recommend books to people funnily enough unless I know them very well but my one exception to that is that I think everybody should read Plato's apology because I think it's a Masterpiece and it only takes a couple of hours to read as an a say”
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Organon
Discussed“what was the organon organon that's one of parle's books isn't it yes yeah remember”
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Stone's Rules
Discussed“robertson is one of these people that have published books on rules for it's called Stone's rules like his book and some of them are the opposite of what Socrates would say”
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On Clemency
Discussed“we have a couple of examples of those like we have on clemency for example which is this letter to nero that probably made public that kind of puts nero in something of a pedestal also tries to improve his character and teach him more clemency or mercy”
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Socrates in Love
Recommended“there's a really cool book that came out recently by Armand dangu a classicist um who wrote a book called Socrates and love that I really like that's kind of speculative biography of Socrates and he claims that soes was probably not as ugly as he's made out to be”
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On Anger
Discussed“senica has an entire book called on anger you know and it's we can easily compare all of that ancient philosophical literature to what some of the psychological research says today”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged How to Think Like Socrates
“and your book is called how to think like Socrates how to think like Socrates which is how to think for yourself nice and nice and circular there I love it”
“I think I put four times as much work into this book as I put into the proceeding like how to think like a Roman Emperor is it”