Aristotle/Plato
example · philosophical/Platonic ·
retold in 3 talks
A violent parody of Aristotle's 'friend of Plato but greater friend of truth,' illustrating the brutal reality of political betrayal and the truth of capitalism's indestructibility.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“I am your friend, bang-bang-bang, you are there”1:25:49 Slavoj Žižek Masterclass: Jacques Lacan: A Lateral Introduction. Part 8pub. 2018-11-29 · 2:11:18
“For him it's clear, who were these others? Egyptians, no? Plato all the time refers to Egypt as the true locus of wisdom.”
“plato idealist but then he introduced chora which is some kind of a half-spiritualized matter”11:32 Why there's no such thing as knowledge | Slavoj Žižek and Hilary Lawsonpub. 2026-06-20 · 21:45
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Jakob Ammann1Colonel Francis Younghusband1Roger Ebert1Danny Burns1Lynn1Augustus1François Ewald1Anarchy (Personified)1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
1:25:49 Slavoj Žižek Masterclass: Jacques Lacan: A Lateral Introduction. Part 8pub. 2018-11-29 · 2:11:18
A violent parody of Aristotle's 'friend of Plato but greater friend of truth,' illustrating the brutal reality of political betrayal and the truth of capitalism's indestructibility., illustrating indestructibility of capitalism
Plato refers to Egypt as the true locus of wisdom, the founding gesture of Western Eurocentrism's decentrement, continuous from Plato to contemporary airport bestsellers about pyramid mysteries., illustrating Eurocentrism as decentrement,colonialism
11:32 Why there's no such thing as knowledge | Slavoj Žižek and Hilary Lawsonpub. 2026-06-20 · 21:45
Plato the idealist nonetheless introduces chora, a half-spiritualized matter, showing that even the most closed idealist system carries an idea of what exceeds its closure., illustrating closure,chora