David Kolb

Month: April 2021

Revising a Video

The video which I posted a while back discussing Parkinson’s disease and Stoicism and me ran about an hour and 1/2. I thought it might be better to replace it with a series of shorter videos made by cutting up the original. But this proved a daunting task so I settled for adding to the …

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Image of ancient philosopher Plato

Bending Plato

This week I’ve been thinking about a talk I’ll be giving in July on Plato and democracy. Why does Plato think that democracy tends towards tyranny? Should we be afraid he might be right? In previous talks on this topic I told Plato’s story how a democracy can change into a tyranny, with disturbing parallels …

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Video Released

I have released a video of a talk about philosophy, PD, stoicism and me. The talk was given at OLLI UO in February.