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Released: 2026-03-25
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7 Episodes
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7 Episodes
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Listen on Apple Podcasts
Released: 2026-03-25
© Copyright 2026 All rights reserved.
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Who Owns Meaning in the Digital Age?

Who Owns Meaning in the Digital Age?

Plato’s Cratylus stages the age-old fight over whether names fit things by nature or by agreement—and turns out to read like a manual for online disputes. Hermogenes says meanings are social contracts; Cratylus insists names track reality; Socrates
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Plato’s Cratylus stages the age-old fight over whether names fit things by nature or by agreement—and turns out to read like a manual for online disputes. Hermogenes says meanings are social contracts; Cratylus insists names track reality; Socrates probes both, shows the limits of etymology, and urges us to use words as tools to reach facts.
This episode connects that debate to the digital age—AI, labeling, moderation, and marketing—arguing that winning a definition isn’t the same as understanding the thing named. The takeaway: don’t get stalled in word wars; investigate outcomes, incentives, and lived realities instead.
Episode ID: 1000757309414
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Release Date: 25/03/2026, 16:31:26

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The ancient Philosopher, Plato, was a tool that helped navigate the ancient, and his timeless philosophy will help do that better now! Because he was to know: how could a society get better at producing not military power but eudaimonia? Applied to our age: how could the world get better at generating not compute mastery but delighted industrial revolution? How could digital technologies reliably help us to flourish?
By positioning ourselves at the intersection of the ancient and the digital age, the podcast draw on Plato to address key questions concerning the nature of a flourishing enterprise and community, education and development, healthcare and wellness, love and friendship, reality, and art.
Hence , drawing from Plato Philosophy, this podcast makes clear that issues exacerbate in the digital age with inherently dramatic form, to pour forth profound elucidation about digital innovation and investment, regulation, and policy making of the socio-technical system, and tech subscriptions and user experience.
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