Jonty Claypole

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11,327 appearances 34 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 4d 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

And everyone says, There's no way we're going to follow this guy. voice-verified

And if he tries to make us leave, we're going to have to kill him because he's so obviously mad. voice-verified

So that's the fate voice-verified

of the true philosopher in society. voice-verified

In the Republic, Plato is also looking at the idea of language and the relationship of words to forms, to ideal truths. voice-verified

And so words likewise are these just shadows, these images we see on the wall. voice-verified

So the reason why the teacher is becoming so drawn to Plato, so drawn to the Republic, so drawn to the allegory of the cave, as it's called, is because he himself. voice-verified

is going blind. voice-verified

And so here's some of the things he says in his his lessons. voice-verified

He says the Republic is actually a dynamic text. voice-verified

It draws the reader in through the energetic progression of its reasoning alone. voice-verified

Now and then in the development of an argument at the narrow and dangerous passages, well, to speak metaphorically, every time he steps to the edge of the cliff, Plato borrows Socrates' voice to ask the reader, Are you following me? voice-verified

I'll skip a bit. voice-verified

He goes on to say, People who, though they believe in beautiful objects, do not believe in beauty itself i.e., that's like the prisoners chained in the cave, who are seeing shadows but don't believe that there's something voice-verified

anything behind them that is making the shadow. voice-verified

Plato deemed such people to be in a state of dreaming and was convinced that one could be persuaded that this was the case through reasoning. voice-verified

In his world everything was upside down like this. voice-verified

That is to say he considered that he himself was awake and not dreaming. voice-verified

He who, rather than trusting in the beautiful objects of reality, trusted only in an absolute beauty that cannot exist in reality. voice-verified

Now, to make sense of that in the context of the book, the reason why the man is so drawn to the Allegory of the Cave and Plato is that because he is going blind, he is very drawn to the idea that the blinder he gets, the more he'll be able to see things as they really are. voice-verified

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