Greg and Mike discuss the utopian ideas of Plato’s Republic, challenging the commonly held notion that he was speaking primarily about morality and instead reading him as a social theorist. Then, building off the centrality of education in Plato’s utopia, they start to imagine what education in a fairer society than our own might look like.
Tag: environmental crisis
Greg and Big Mike jump right in: the crises we face; the immense scale of the change necessary to avoid a bleak, bleak future; the history of the systems, among them capitalism and socialism, that have brought us to this point.