Challenging Time

The book Applied Philosophy for Health Professions Education by Megan Brown, Mario Veen and Gabrielle Finn considers the practical application of philosophical concepts to teaching, learning, and research, covers philosophical concepts such as Stoicism and Practical Wisdom, and includes practice points for educators within each chapter of the book. *To skip to a specific presentation, scroll down to the end for all the times* In this episode (and if you're a regular listener of this podcast you may skip to another episode unless you are interested in this topic) some of the authors present their chapter. We invite you to our book launch conference on September 13th, 7pm-9pm BST. It's free and you can sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdsH_0JJ0tu1Zy8b-DpNdvP9mvVixSFyBVHE21diIXElUalGQ/viewform The book launch will be dedicated to discussion between attending authors and those who sign up. We've had fantastic interest from our contributing authors regarding attending the launch, so it looks set to be a rich and practical discussion regarding how we can "philosophize" health professions education. The book is available here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-1512-3 If you are interested in philosophy and education after listening to this episode, I invite you to listen to Episode 22 of this podcast: World-Centered Education with Gert Biesta https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Ios0v1c7SvA5Q3vLRSfMr?si=lz5FfBltQOS1CBz6muOEUw&utm_source=whatsapp&nd=1 If you have any questions or comments, do not hesitate to contact us on twitter. After all, the only stupid question is the one you did not ask: Megan Brown: https://twitter.com/Megan_EL_Brown Mario Veen: https://twitter.com/MarioVeen Gabrielle finn: https://twitter.com/gabs_finn Timecodes of the presentations in this episode: 2:58 Chapter 2 Philosophy of Education: Towards a Practical Philosophy of Educational Practice Wouter Pols, Joop Berding 9:55 Chapter 3 Subjectification in Health Professions Education: Why We Should Look Beyond the Idea of Professional Identity Formation Simon Verwer, Marije van Braak 17:55 Chapter 4 The Serious Healer: Developing an Ethic of Ambiguity Within Health Professions Education Mario Veen, Megan E. L. Brown 25:02 Chapter 5 Acknowledgement: The Antidote to Skillification (of Empathy) in Health Professions Education Anne de la Croix, Grace Peters, William F. Laughey 30:22 Chapter 9 The Philosophy of Social Justice: Lessons for Achieving Progress in Health Professions Education Through Meaningful Inclusion Angelique N. Dueñas, Marina Politis, Adam Danquah 33:16 Chapter 10 The Future of Healthcare is Feminist: Philosophical Feminism in Health Professions Education Lena Wånggren, Gabrielle Maria Finn 39:19 Chapter 12 “What Does It Mean to Be?”: Ontology and Responsibility in Health Professions Education Tasha R. Wyatt, Rola Ajjawi, Mario Veen 47:24 Chapter 15 Ethics Education in the Health Professions Bryan C. Pilkington 50:12 Chapter 23 Teaching Dignity in the Health Professions Bryan C. Pilkington 53:11 Chapter 16 Climate Change and Health Care Education Cristina Richie 58:41 Chapter 18 Philosophy as Therapy: Rebalancing Technology and Care in Health Professions Education Martina Ann Kelly, Tim Dornan, Tinu Ruparell 1:04:10 Chapter 20 Phronesis in Medical Practice: The Will and the Skill Needed to Do the Right Thing Margaret Plews-Ogan, Kenneth E. Sharpe 1:12:20 Chapter 21 In Pursuit of Time: An Inquiry into Kairos and Reflection in Medical Practice and Health Professions Education Sven Schaepkens, Camillo Coccia 1:18:04 Chapter 22 The Application of Stoicism to Health Professions Education Alexander MacLellan, Megan E. L. Brown, Tim LeBon, Neil Guha 1:25:18 Chapter 24 The Ambiguities of Humility: A Conceptual and Historical Exploration in the Context of Health Professions Education Barret Michalec, Frederic W. Hafferty, Nicole Piemonte, Jon C. Tilburt

We discuss Image-Thinking: Artmaking as Cultural Analysis by Mieke Bal. Mieke (www.miekebal.org) started as a literary scholar. Her commitment is to interdisciplinary approaches to cultural artifacts and their potential effects. She focuses on gender, migratory culture, psychoanalysis, and the critique of capitalism. Mieke published 45 books and curated many exhibitions. She directed films and documentaries, many of which are exhibited as video installations in museums over the world. Her books include a trilogy on political art: Endless Andness, Thinking in Film, and Of What One Cannot Speak. Mieke supervised 81 PhDs. She (co-)made documentaries on migratory culture, and films which she calls ‘theoretical fictions.’ A Long History of Madness argues for a more humane treatment of psychosis, and was exhibited in a site-specific version, Saying It, in the Freud Museum in London. Madame B was combined with paintings by Edvard Munch in the Munch Museum in Oslo. Reasonable Doubt is about the philosopher René Descartes and explores the social aspects of thinking. The installation Don Quixote: tristes figuras is exhibited as a sixteen channel video work. Becoming Vera is a documentary about a girl who is "three years old. Living in three worlds". Her latest film, It’s About Time! Reflections on Urgency was produced in Poland (2020), just before the corona pandemic. It's a short film and you can watch it in full on Mieke's website. She was recently was elected to the one-year chair “L’invention de l’Europe par les langues et les cultures”, founded as one of three “chaires annuelles” by the Collège de France. Image-Thinking proposes a new model of synthesis of creative and intellectual work. It merges theoretical and practical considerations in innovative and empowering ways, while clarifying difficult concepts through accounts of practice including trauma, agency, identity and affect. We also briefly discuss Mieke's influential idea of "travelling concepts", which she introduced in her 2002 book Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide. This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways I hope you enjoy the episode!Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/ I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Jeanne Proust has studied Humanities, Philosophy and Visual Arts in Bordeaux, Berlin, and Paris. She has been teaching Philosophy for the last 12 years in the US. Her PhD dissertation (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) focused on the pathologies of the willpower, both in philosophical and psychological perspectives, but her interests are wide: among many fields, she does research in Ethics, Philosophy of Technologies, Bioethics, Feminist theory, and Aesthetics. While teaching at different universities in New York, Jeanne is advocating for a widening of philosophical education beyond the Academia frontiers by participating in different events open to the general public. She taught at Rikers Island as a volunteer, and regularly gives public talks in philosophy, leading her to recently produce her own podcast, "Can You Phil It?”. She also collaborates with artists on her photography, drawing and painting works. She is currently working on articles at the crossroads of philosophy and psychology, and starting a new book project about contrasting feminist views on female sexual desire. https://jeanneproust.github.io/index.html https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanne-proust-74162b40/ https://www.instagram.com/can_you_phil_it_/?hl=fr Jeanne recently published an essay about FOMO in Nouma Magazine: https://www.noemamag.com/a-remedy-for-fomo/ Sources that came up in our conversation: Philosophical podcasts: LSD (French): https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/lsd-la-serie-documentaire Philosophize This: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ BBC's In Our Time: Philosophy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01f0vzr/episodes/downloads Rani Lill Anjum's Introduction to Philosophy syllabus in podcast episodes: https://ranilillanjum.com/introduction-to-philosophy-syllabus-in-podcast-episodes/ Smellosophy: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674983694 Invisible Demons documentary: https://mk2films.com/en/film/invisible-demons/ Virginie Despendes, "King Kong Theory" https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/king-kong-theory Henri Bergson, The Creative Mind: (translation of La Penseé et le Mouvement): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208057.The_Creative_Mind This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways I hope you enjoy the episode!Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/ I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Ian Partman (he/they) is a 19-year old student, writer, activist, and artist based in New York City. He is the founder of Ignite Collective, a national organization of young activists who work to resist police violence through mutual aid and direct action. He currently works at the Brennan Center for Justice in the Office of the President. Their academic research explores how histories of exclusion within everyday institutions shape contemporary forms of racial violence, especially within spaces of higher education. Ian is also working on a forthcoming monograph that explores Black childhood in the age of #BlackLivesMatter. You can find him, and more of his work, at ianpartman.com. This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways. I hope you enjoy the episode!Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/ I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Leave me a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/LifeFromPlatosCave Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

The returning soul in Plato's allegory of the Cave is not heard by the prisoners, who are too occupied with the shadows on the wall. In the most literal sense, Plato was probably speaking about how the people do not appreciate the philosophy of, for instance, his teacher Socrates, at the time when this philosopher is most needed. This is an independent educational podcast and I appreciate any support you can give me me on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave) or in other ways. Which philosophers are not heard enough in our time? Today, we discuss the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. Stiegler is known most for his magnus opus Technics and Time, but many of his works have not yet been translated into English, and the ones that have are not read enough. Daniel Ross, our guide through Stiegler's philosophy, is trying to change that. Daniel Ross obtained his doctorate from Monash University in 2002. He is the author of Violent Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Towards a Metacosmics (Open Humanities Press, 2021 -free to download). He is also the co-director with David Barison of the feature documentary The Ister (rent or buy on Vimeo), which premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2004, and which won awards in Montreal and Marseille. Through that film, he met the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, and has subsequently published eleven volumes of translation of Stiegler’s work, most recently The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism (Polity Press, 2019) and Nanjing Lectures 2016–2019 (Open Humanities Press, 2020 - free to download), along with the collective volume by Stiegler and the Internation Collective entitled Bifurcate: ‘There Is No Alternative’ (Open Humanities Press, 2022 - free to download). What's YOUR interpretation of Plato's allegory? I would love to hear! Leave me a voicemail. It's really easy. You click the record button, speak, and hit send. I might play your message in a future episode and respond. I hope you enjoy the episode!Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/ I'd love to hear your questions or comments:Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Imagine you descended from the surface into Plato's Cave and told them "you're in Plato's Cave!" And they responded "No, YOU'RE in Plato's Cave!" In this episode, we will speak about how to deal with science denial. To learn about science communication in general, we focus on one particular extreme case of science denial, which is the idea that we live on a Flat Earth. Our guide is the creator of the youtube channel I Can Science That, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_FH_YLAQjG4ZiKisRSK5iA I Can Science That engages in conversations with Flat Earthers and other types of science denial. Unlike other channels, he focuses on having discussions in which both parties listen to each other and try to understand each others' viewpoint, rather than debates in which each party tries to win. Sources The Flat Earthers are a peculiar group. For an introduction, check out the 2008 Netflix documentary "Behind The Curve". We also discuss the book and documentary Merchants of Doubt by Oreskes and Conway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ii9zGFDtc Some youtube links: Vsauce on "Is Earth Actually Flat?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNqNnUJVcVs Richard Feynman's talk on "Why?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA And Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjTTS-KMupo I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/ Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Welcome (or welcome Back) to Life From Plato's Cave. This is a course in interdisciplinary philosophy in which we look at life - the part of life that interests you - from a new perspective in every episode. In each of the other episodes, I will interview a guest about their intepretation of Plato's Allegory of the Cave: philosophers, artists, literary scholars, phycisists, actors, psychologists, geologists and many more. In this first part of this episode, I'm speaking about how you could work with this podcast. I give a summary of Plato's allegory at the end. In the next part, I will give an overview of the eleven episodes so far and speak about what's coming in 2022. One of those things is that I opened a Patreon account! Support Life From Plato's Cave at https://patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

"It's almost as if Plato saw Media Studies coming and invented this allegory for us to sort of set the stage from the beginning of western modernity. It's kind of uncanny how appropriate it remains. It's like it becomes more and more relevant as time passes." Today I speak with Dominic Pettman about social media, distraction and libido. About Dominic Pettman: Dominic is University Professor of Media and New Humanities at The New School in New York, where he teaches courses on posthumanism, animal studies, critical theories of technology, environmental humanities, attention ecologies, popular media forms, and philosophies of desire. He is the author of numerous books, including a loose trilogy exploring the relationship between Eros and ecology - Sonic Intimacy, Creaturely Love, and Peak Libido. In this episode, we focus primarily on the last part of this trilogy and Infinite Distraction: Paying Attention to Social Media. Dominic himself is also on social media: https://twitter.com/DominicPettman What's YOUR interpretation of Plato's allegory? I would love to hear! Leave me a voicemail. It's really easy. You click the record button, speak, and hit send. I might play your message in a future episode and respond. Support me through patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/ I'd love to hear your questions or comments: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

The prisoners in Plato's Cave live in a world of projections. They think they see a cat, but it is actually a shadow of a statue of a cat. Is it the same for us? Do we live in a kind of illusion? And if so, what are ways to see through this illusion and lift the fog at least a little? We explore these questions with neuroscientist, Buddhist and ballet dancer Marieke van Vugt. About Marieke: Marieke is an assistant professor in the cognitive modeling group at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). She obtained her PhD with Michael Kahana in the neuroscience program of the University of Pennsylvania, after having spent one year at Brandeis University. After that I did a postdoc with Jonathan Cohen at Princeton University. The main question that guides her research is: how do we think? In what ways do we mind-wander? What effects does that have on decisions? And how can we make our thinking more adaptive by means of contemplative practices such as mindfulness and meditation. She likes to use mathematical models and techniques to better understand those very complicated data. This model-based neuroscience approach allows us to think about the mechanism by which someone thinks, and make more detailed predictions than verbal models. Resources Marieke's website, twitter and ballet-related pictures on her instagram. Mind and Life Institute: https://www.mindandlife-europe.org Evan Thompson: research on whether meditation makes you a better scientist https://evanthompson.me/ Jostein Gaarder (1991). Sophie's World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%27s_World Tamboukou M. Archival research: unravelling space/time/matter entanglements and fragments. Qualitative Research. 2014;14(5):617-633. doi:10.1177/1468794113490719 Jostein Gaarder, 1991. Sophie's World Film about neurobiologist Francisco Varela: Monte Grande: What is Life? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0466070/ Balerinas by Night :http://ballerinasbynight.blogspot.com/ Navillera (Netflix series, 2021) Marieke van Vugt MK (2014) Ballet as a movement-based contemplative practice? Implications for neuroscientific studies. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 8:513. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00513 Dominic Pettman (2016) Infinite Distraction. Polity Books https://dominicpettman.com/books/infinite-distraction/ Ricard, Matthieu (1999). The Monk and the Philosopher. New York City: Schocken. https://www.amazon.com/Monk-Philosopher-Father-Discuss-Meaning/dp/0805211039 The Brain Facts Book (free download in many languages) https://www.brainfacts.org/the-brain-facts-book Social Psychology experiment on change blindness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBPG_OBgTWg and https://youtu.be/VkrrVozZR2c?t=101 I hope you enjoy the episode! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/ Here's how to contact me if you have any questions or comments: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

When the prisoner in Plato's cave is released and turns around, the light of the fire is painful and terrifying. Running back to their seat, it makes no sense at all and they have no language to even speak about it. When we experience something that does not fit in the framework within which we make sense of our reality, can we even call it "experience"? Ernst van Alphen calls trauma "failed experience". In this episode, we discuss the Holocaust in relation to trauma, experience, memory, archives and affect. We focus particularly on his essay Testimonies and the Limits of Representation, a chapter in his book Caught By History: Holocaust Effects In Contemporary Art, Literature, and Theory (Stanford U.P 1997). Ernst was so kind to make an older version of this chapter (Symptoms of Discursivity) available here. About Ernst van Alphen: Ernst van Alphen is professor of Literary Studies at Universiteit Leiden. His publications include Shame! And Masculinity (ed., Valiz 2020), Failed Images:Photography and Its Counter-Practices (Valiz 2018), Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the Age of New Media (Reaktion Books 2014), Art in Mind: How Contemporary Images Shape Thought (University of Chicago Press 2005), Armando: Shaping Memory (NAi Publishers 2000), Francis Bacon and The Loss of Self (Harvard U.P 1995). Let's support people who experienced trauma. Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/ Here's how to contact me if you have any questions or comments: Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Plato's description of the Cave is kind of like a cinema: an audience watching shadows on a screen, projected by a fire behind them. Have you ever felt like your life is a film? Have you noticed how many films have incorporated a Plato's Cave theme - The Matrix, Inception and The Truman Show, just to name a few? How can we learn from film, especially in this time when we are watching so many series and films? Our guide for this cinematic journey through the Cave is Masha Bronnikova. About Masha Bronnikova (aka Mab'by) Masha initiates and joins inter-disciplinary projects around The Netherlands. She is a poet and performer, she is a cultural producer and a connector. Masha works with platforms such as OT301 Studios, DNK-Amsterdam, Stingerbol and The Bookstore Foundation. Check out Masha's Soundcloud for her poetry, readings, and other sounds: https://soundcloud.com/user-949529117 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoundMatterPlatform Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mashabronn22/ To avoid any spoilers, please watch all of these films prior to listening to the episode: Stalker (1979), Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018), Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1895), The Fairy of the Cabbages (1896), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010), Nostalghia (1983), The Sacrifice (1986), Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (2019), The Violent Heart (2020), Waking Life (2001), WandaVision (2021), Star Wars (1977), Frozen (2013), Soul (2020), The Matrix (1999), Blade Runner (1982), Interstellar (2014), I, Robot (2004), Dark City (1998), The Maze Runner (2014), The Hunger Games (2012), Inception (2010), The Truman Show (1998), To All The Boys: Always and Forever (2021), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), The Bone Collector (1999), Escape From New York (1981), Escape from Alcatraz (1979), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), The Irony of Faith (1976), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Independence Day (1996), The Birds (1963), King Kong (2005), The Avengers (2012), and last but not least, Orlando (1992). These are some of the scenes we mention: Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (The Lumière Brothers, 1986): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RYNThid23g Candle Scene from André Tarkovski's Nostalghia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Dp6EdFRHo Holy Moment scene in Waking Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmL9rt3Onj4 Welcome To The Desert of the Real, Zizek: https://anarcosurrealisti.noblogs.org/files/2010/10/Welcome-to-the-desert-of-the-real.pdf Exhibition about Orlando: https://www.plaatsmaken.nl/nl/tentoonstelling/the-weight-of-spring I hope you enjoy our discussion! Mario http://lifefromplatoscave.com/ Here's how to contact me if you have any questions or comments:Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

Ask not what you can do with philosophy, but what philosophy can do with you! In this episode, I discuss life from Plato's Cave from a philosophical perspective with Johannes Niederhauser. We discuss, among other things, Heidegger's Essay Plato's Doctrine of Truth. A superficial reading of Plato's Cave might suggest that there are two worlds, and that the truth is something out there to be found like an island out in the ocean (or like a sun-drenched paradise outside the cave). But is that really the case? Heidegger puts forward a radically different interpretation than the two-world theory of Plato's Cave. Truth is not about whether something is correct, but rather about the degree to which it un-hides or reveals what is hidden. Truth happens because we participate in it, and this is not a one-time event but a path we travel over and over again. Also, we better not rush but take the time at each stage to let it reveal itself to us. What's YOUR interpretation of Plato's allegory? I would love to hear! Leave me a voicemail. It's really easy. You click the record button, speak, and hit send. I might play your message in a future episode and respond. Support me through patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lifefromplatoscave Enjoy! Mario About Johannes Niederhauser Johannes is the founder of the Halkyon Thinkers' Guild (https://www.halkyonguild.org/), created the youtube channel Classical Philosophy (https://www.youtube.com/c/ClassicalPhilosophy). Johannes' book "Heidegger on Death and Being" is available here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-51375-7. Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohannesAchill Insta: https://www.instagram.com/classical.philosophy/ Here are references to some of the sources that came up in our conversation: - Heidegger (1953), The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics (https://stjuphilosophyreadinggroup.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/fundamental-question-of-metaphysics-the.pdf) - Johannes reading Plato's Cave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn0OaSWLYpk - E.M. Foster (1909),The Machine Stops (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops). Johannes reads and discusses it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uioIJK0INc - Heidegger wrote a short essay on Plato's Cave called "Plato's Doctrine of Truth" which is recommended if you have never read anything by him (http://artsingames.free.fr/Heidegger,%20Martin%20-%20Plato's%20Doctrine%20of%20Truth.pdf). The longer version of this is the book The Essence of Truth (https://www.amazon.com/Essence-Truth-Theaetetus-Bloomsbury-Revelations/dp/147252571X) - The other philosophers Johannes mentions are Georg Hegel, Immanuel Kant and Jean Beaudrillard Here's how to contact me if you have any questions or comments: Website: http://www.lifefromplatoscave.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifeplatoscave Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lifefromplatoscave/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifefromplatoscave Illustration © by Julien Penning, Light One Art: https://www.instagram.com/light_one_art/

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