In the archaic and classical thought-worlds, a good place to go hunting for wisdom was down below, in the underworld. Plato introduces a new kind of otherworld, the world of forms, which is reached by journeying upward. In this episode we discuss a few of Plato’s greatest discussions of this philosophic ascent, contextualising them in … Continue reading Nowhere to Go But Up: Philosophic Ascent in Plato