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Hello everyone, it's me, Stephen West.
This is Philosophize This, and I gotta tell you, this episode was really close to being a two-part episode,
because when you're dealing with philosophers that are as influential as Plato was and have a body of work as extensive as Plato's is,
it starts to become very difficult to make one single 45-minute conglomeration of all of it.
On that same note, a guy named Alfred North Whitehead famously said that all of Western philosophy,
subsequently after Plato, consists of a set of footnotes to Plato and his work.
Footnotes, that's it.
By the end of this episode, you're gonna understand why he said that,
and hopefully you'll understand why it was almost a two-parter.
Plato wrote 27 treatises, practically 27 full-length books,
and the reason I decided to keep it down to one part is