Episodes
Interview with Matt Ehret Pt. 2: The Allegory of the Cave
What if the most cited passage in Western philosophy has been deliberately misread — by both its critics and its supposed followers? In Part 2 of his conversation with Matt Ehret, Marshall examines the Allegory of the Cave, t...
Interview with Matt Ehret - Plato vs. Aristotle: The Flame, the Vesse…
Matt Ehret argues that the divide between Plato and Aristotle is not a historical curiosity confined to the ancient world — it is a living fault line that continues to shape how civilizations understand learning, discovery, a...
Aristotle vs. Plato: Two Theories of Progress — and the Institution T…
The Academy was built on a wager: that philosophy could be institutionalized, accumulated, and transmitted across generations. Episode 10 asks whether the bet paid off — and finds the answer in the man Plato trained himself. ...
How Did Plato’s Academy Teach What Could Not Be Taught?
Plato named philosophy. But naming it was only the first move. The harder question was whether an institution could be built to make the progress he was wagering on actually work. Episode 9 examines the Academy — not as an id...
The Word and the Wager: How Plato Named and Claimed Philosophy | Ep.…
About This Episode Where did the word “philosopher” come from — and who got to decide what it meant? In Episode 8, Part 1 of Notions of Progress , we trace the moment Plato took a word that had begun as a mocking label and tr...
Plato vs. the Sophists: Rhetoric, Power, and the Making of Callicles …
About This Episode Can rhetoric make better citizens — or does it simply make better manipulators through the art of persuasion? In Part 2 of the Plato vs. the Sophists arc, Notions of Progress follows Plato’s argument from t...
Plato vs. the Sophists: The Allegory of the Cave As His Answer On Pro…
In this episode of Notions of Progress — the first of a two-part examination of Plato — we ask what happens to the Sophists’ theory of progress once Plato is done with it. The Sophists had argued that human beings advance thr...
The Sophists: Fifth Century Enlightenment? | Ep. 5 Pt.1
About This Episode In this episode of Notions of Progress — the first of a two-part solo series — we ask a deceptively simple question: were the ancient Greek Sophists the original enlightenment-like thinkers of human progres...
Five Faces of Progress: The Road to Anti-Progress |Prof. Tyson Retz P…
About This Episode In this episode of Notions of Progress - Part Two, we continue exploring the fascinating evolution of progress thinking with Professor Tyson Retz, author of "Progress in the Scale of History" (Cambridge Uni...
Five Faces of Progress: A Conceptual Framework for Historical Change …
About This Episode In this episode of Notions of Progress, we explore the fascinating evolution of progress thinking with Professor Tyson Retz, an intellectual historian at the University of Stavanger in Norway and author of ...
The Promethean Question: : Greek Views on Technological Progress | Ep…
In Episode 2 of Notions of Progress, we explore the "Promethean Question" - examining Greek antiquity's perspectives on technological progress from 700-300 BCE. Did the ancient Greeks view technology as a divine gift or a dan...
Show Trailer - The Long Road To Progress | Ep. 1
In "Notions of Progress," host Marshall Madow explores the concept of progress through history, examining technological advancements and philosophical ideas. This trailer delves into themes like AI, transhumanism, and technol...
