# 47 - Alex Priou: From Plato to Palantir - Philosophy's Place in Technological Society

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Podcast: [Hacking State](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hacking-state-6414128)
Published: 2025-03-13T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://hackingstate.podbean.com/e/alex-priou/
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Duration seconds: 4148

## Resource

Alex Priou is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Interim Dean of the Center for Intellectual Foundations at University of Austin, as well as co-host of The New Thinkery podcast. We discuss the place of the Great Books in education, a justification of political philosophy in terms of the good life, his review of Palantir's Alex Karp's and Nicholas Zamiska's book, “The Technological Republic,” the challenges posed by life mediated through technology, the interplay between great thinkers, and his upcoming book on Plato’s Republic and Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, exploring how times of decadence create a desire for revolutionary politics and drawing parallels to the pitfalls of today. Alex Priou Personal site: https://alexpriou.com/ UATX profile: https://www.uaustin.org/people/alex-priou On X: https://x.com/alexpriou If you enjoyed this interview, please leave a review on Spotify/iTunes. Support Hacking State: https://hackingstate.substack.com/subscribe Listen on: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexmurshak Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hacking-state/id1689677076 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XB9XYULrAY4dp0qIJVvCg RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/hackingstate/feed.xml

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