Ep.29 History of Philosophy: Plato and the Republic Part 3
This week the podcast pulls no punches as it sticks it to Santa, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny as examples of the noble lie. Is Danny objectively beautiful in any absolute sense or is it just that his mum thinks he is and she is contractually obliged to? If Mike stood in an exhibition space with a label stuck to him would he be art? Would the Neo-Platonic Augustine have approved of Tinder as a method by which women might more closely approximate to the ideal image of humanity? This and other slippery philosophical issues will be neatly avoided as Mike and Danny once again lead you down the dark alleys of philosophy and then abandon you to make your own way home.