Plato vs. Aristotle? with Dr. Arthur Herman

Join Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Grossman for the 281st episode of Objectively Speaking, with historian Arthur Herman as they discuss his book "The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization," which answers the question of how the competing visions of Plato and Aristotle shaped the very way we think about politics, art, science, and the modern world. A senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute, Herman is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist historian and biographer, authoring nine books, including the New York Times Best Seller How the Scots Invented the Modern World, Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II, and 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder.

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Plato vs. Aristotle? with Dr. Arthur Herman is an episode from The Atlas Society Presents - The Atlas Society Asks by The Atlas Society.

This episode is 00:59:14 long.

This episode was published on Dec 17, 2025.

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