199 – Political Theory in Star Trek

Sound, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Mythcreant Podcast, and as you might be able to tell, today we’re talking about Star Trek. But not just any Star Trek: political theory in Star Trek. For that we’ve brought on a special guest, Professor Kathy Ferguson, who just so happens to teach a class on this very subject. We talk about what makes someone a person, how we know what we know, and what being Machiavellian even means. Also, Kathy weighs in on the age-old philosopher debate: was Socrates real?

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Opening and closing theme: The Princess Who Saved Herself by Jonathan Coulton. Used with permission.

Show Notes:

Episodes

–Death Wish 

–The High Ground

–The Measure of a Man

–The 37’s 

–Darmok

–Let This Be Your Last Battlefield

–The Cloud Minders

Philosophers 

–Socrates

–Plato

–Foucault

–Sigmund Freud

–Machiavelli 

–Hannah Arendt

–John Stuart Mill

–Harriet Taylor Mill

–John Locke 

–Karl Marx

–Hanna Pitkin