Footnotes: Spinoza to Hume
August 30, 2022
In this video, Dr. Bill Roach transitions the conversation on the footnotes on Plato to discuss Aristotle, who was the greatest footnote on Plato. In addition, he discusses how other philosophies such as Hedonism, Skepticism, and Stoicism were footnotes that departed from Plato.
In this video, Dr. Bill Roach offers a basic breakdown of Plato’s theory of Forms and the key concepts of Plato’s Republic. The point of this overview was to help people understand how the various philosophies (or footnotes) add to, depart from, deny, etc. key tenets of Plato’s philosophy.