Melvyn Bragg
speaker
958 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 17 Sep
Melvyn Bragg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Angie Hobbs, there's a challenge laid down at the beginning of the book by Thrasymachus.
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He lays this challenge down to Socrates.
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What is it?
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So this is the first of ten books and it kicks off the whole argument which goes into psychology and politics and art and the discussion of the soul and so on.
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Where is he speaking from?
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You've talked to him as a wandering teacher.
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Does he have a philosophy contrary to that of Socrates?
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or doesn't he?
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I mean, you're the expert.
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for the rest of the book, really.
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He does.
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Emma McCabe, where does Plato's focus lie in this work, in the individual or on the state?
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How does he move between the two?
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means.
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He has to prove that.
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show.
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Sorry.
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It's up to you.
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But he does take great pains to enlarge it to the state.
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The individual is represented by the state.
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