Jonty Claypole

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11,327 appearances 34 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 3d ago

Jonty Claypole’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Secret Life of Books · Greek Lessons by Han Kang · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

But what happens over the course of the book is the teacher who's teaching ancient Greek to these students, he sort of becomes more interested in just talking about Plato and talking about Plato's masterpiece, the Republic. voice-verified

All the other students at this point start to disengage and stop turning up because they're like, you know, please, no more Plato, except for the woman. voice-verified

She's she's totally into it. voice-verified

Here's why I think Plato becomes voice-verified

Such a big important presence in this book. voice-verified

And I'll do some of the readings where uh they talk about Plato. voice-verified

But the Republic is thought to be the Greek philosopher Plato's masterpiece to an extent. voice-verified

It was written around the early 4th century BCE. voice-verified

His texts are famously dialogues. voice-verified

They present as transcriptions of dialogues, they're almost like plays. voice-verified

And the key voice-verified

Figure in Plato's books is the figure of Socrates, who was the philosopher who Plato studied under. voice-verified

And Socrates is known for his belief in the kind of limitations of knowledge. voice-verified

Socrates, we're told as a young man, would stop people in the marketplace, you know, saying, Please tell me something. voice-verified

Can anyone tell me anything at all? voice-verified

I know nothing. voice-verified

Socrates always claims that he knows nothing. voice-verified

And that the only way to find things out is through dialogue and talking together. voice-verified

And this becomes known as the Socratic method: that through dialogue we can uncover truths and ideas about the world. voice-verified

And Socrates says, I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a midwife for ideas that I initiate these conversations and ideas come out of them. voice-verified

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