Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great?
In this episode, Dr. Hicks reads the Allegory of the Cave in Book 7 of Plato’s Republic, discussing the allegory itself and the metaphysical, epistemological, social, educational and psychological conclusions it draws.
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Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.