Platonic Irony | The Republic, Part IV
What if everything you thought you knew about Plato's Republic... was wrong?
Quite Useless
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A podcast about art and its role in our lives. Artist and armchair aesthetic philosopher Greg Beam probes various topics in the arts, asking how art both reflects and shapes our perceptions of the world.
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