In this special edition series, I will be joined by multiple thinkers and philosophers to discuss Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy. This ongoing series of conversations will focus on the nature of goodness, truth, justice, freedom, beauty, reason, and love. My first guest in this series is the eminent cognitive scientist and philosopher John Vervaeke, and we examine D.C. Schindler's masterpiece "Plato's Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness and Truth in the Republic."Be sure to check out Swan Private, the trusted Bitcoin financial services provider for high-net-worth individuals and businesses worldwide: https://www.swanprivate.com/breedloveGuestJohn's Twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_johnPlato's Critique of Impure Reason: https://www.amazon.com/Platos-Critique-Impure-Reason-Goodness/dp/0813228247#:~:text=Plato's%20Critique%20of%20Impure%20Reason%20offers%20a%20dramatic%20interpretation%20of,real%20image%22%20of%20the%20good.PODCASTPodcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYITranscript:Outline00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro00:00:08 Swan Private00:01:37 “Value” vs “The Good”: The Goal of All Human Action00:10:00 The Through-Line to Economic, Intellectual, and Moral Value00:16;10 Distinguishing Intrinsic from Instrumental Goodness00:24:20 Aristotelean Subject-Object Metaphysics and the Mediating Third00:28:28 The Academy’s Misapprehension of Platonic Philosophy00:29:54 On the Absolute Goodness of Justice00:34:46 Intrinsic Existence vs Attributed Existence: Gravity vs Money00:40:38 Variants Coalesce to Invariants Within a System: An Analogy to Gravity00:42:11 Freedom: An Instrumental or Intrinsic Good?00:49:56 Love and Reason Live In-between the Arbitrary and the Algorithmic00:54:25 Watch “Hard Money with Natalie Brunell” From Swan Studios00:55:11 Take Control of Your Healthcare with CrowdHealth00:56:20 Direct vs Indirect Observation, Qualitative and Quantitative Tradeoffs01:03:53 “Falling in Love With Being Again”: A Critique of the “Two Worlds” Mythology01:07:57 Replacing “Transcendence Above” with “Transcendence Into”01:14:17 The Good: The Multi-Aspectual Through-Line01:17:12 “The Question that Can Wake John Vervaeke at 3am”01:22:03 Distinguishing Between “Relevance” and “Value”01:27:30 Common Approaches to The Good01:33:58 “Spinoza’s Religion” and Self-Sufficiency as the Emulation of God01:41:41 The Inseparability of Human Reason and Love01:44:44 Bitcoin as Good Money01:55:20 Translucence: How Symbols Simultaneously Reveal and Conceal02:04:46 Goodness as Perfective Unity02:06:48 The Divided Line in the Parable of Plato’s Cave02:14:00 Plato Emphasizes the Continuity of the Divided-Line: Gradations on the Through-Line02:20:14 Where the Icon Darkens: Social Media, Fiat Money, and Other False Realities02:26:23 The Unity of Opposites: The Absolute, Self-Transcending Nature of Love02:29:07 “Love is the Difficult Realization that Something Other than Yourself Is Real”02:35:59 Unbroken Wholeness: Religion as the Real Self-Realization of Reality02:41:30 Dialogical Rationality Supersedes Individual Rationality02:42:40 “What Would Happen If You Touched the Sunset?”SOCIALBreedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShowLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=enAll My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22 WRITTEN WORKMedium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTEBitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedloveDollars via Venmo: https://