This is the most feared podcast in Texas
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This is the most feared podcast in Texas
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About this listen
If you're tuning in from Texas, keep listening. We're going to talk about what they don't want you to hear.
In this episode of GDP, we're talking about academic censorship, in particular the case of Texas A&M banning Plato's Symposium. We bring in Platonic expert Eli Diamond to tell us exactly what is being banned: an erotic booze fuled drama of debauchery and perverse behaviour that also serves as a foundational text in understanding the nature of love, beauty and desire while providing a foundation of Western philosophy, ethics, and human psychology. So what makes studying this so dangerous? Tune in to find out.
Dr. Eli Diamond teaches at Dalhousie University and King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is considered by many to be the GOAT of classics. His first book, Mortal Imitations of Divine Life: The Nature of the Soul in Aristotle’s De Anima, was published in 2015 by Northwestern University Press in the series “Rereading Ancient Philosophy”. Details about the book can be found here. The focus of his current research is Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy.