Book Review: Open Socrates (Part 1)

Another record-breaker for length: this one runs to over three and a half hours of audio. If you’ve found these audio versions of Zvi’s posts useful, please consider becoming a paid subscriber, after subscribing to Zvi first, of course. The support really helps.The Don’t Worry About the Vase Podcast is a listener-supported podcast. To receive new posts and support the cost of creation, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:04:36 - Editor’s Note* 00:06:48 - A Difference Of Opinion* 00:09:39 - An Overview* 00:09:58 - You Don’t Know Me* 00:11:01 - Untimely Questions* 00:15:04 - The Unexamined Life is Worth Living* 00:20:19 - The Quest For The Unexamined Life* 00:25:26 - Not Everyone Wants To or Should Philosophize All Day* 00:28:01 - The Seinfeld Fallacy* 00:29:59 - Socrates was the Lying GOAT of Hypocritical False Humility* 00:36:03 - Hearing Voices* 00:39:00 - Simpsons Ancient Greeks Did It* 00:42:22 - The Proposed Fourth Option: Socratic Inquiry* 00:47:37 - No Really The Position is Nothing Else Matters* 00:51:46 - The War on Wavering and Nebulosity* 00:59:14 - Living Your Best Life* 01:03:21 - Introducing the Socratic Method (the real one)* 01:04:46 - Prove Me Wrong, Kids* 01:06:30 - Socrates Asserts Wrong Conclusions That Are Wrong* 01:11:10 - You Can Question Your Beliefs* 01:20:37 - True Opinions Do Not Only Do Good* 01:23:42 - Meno Plays the Fool* 01:27:08 - The Central Magician’s Trick* 01:28:13 - The Gaslighting of Alcibiades* 01:41:42 - The Measure of a Fight* 01:50:50 - The Good Fight* 01:56:25 - The Curious Case of Euthyphro* 02:00:45 - You Should Be Sad About That* 02:06:10 - People Respond To Incentives* 02:13:38 - Self Versus Other* 02:15:05 - Socrates Declares Humans Have Unified Minds Free Of Various Biases* 02:24:05 - Revenge* 02:40:41 - Legal Systems Very Different From Our Own* 02:45:49 - Socrates Claims The Just And The Advantageous Are Identical* 02:56:52 - First Up: Utilitarianism* 02:59:54 - The Main Rival: Deontology (Kantianism? Stoicism?)* 03:05:51 - A Trolly Problem* 03:07:37 - The Third and Correct Option: Virtue Ethics* 03:16:07 - You Are Not Omniscient* 03:22:57 - The Hardest Thing In This World Is To Live In It* 03:29:27 - They Call It Utopia For A Reason* 03:30:50 - The End… Of Book Onehttps://open.substack.com/pub/thezvi/p/book-review-open-socrates-part-1?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to DWAtV Podcast at dwatvpodcast.substack.com/subscribe