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- Plato the Athenian was the philosopher who founded the Academy and whose brilliant writings are the foundation texts of the entire western philosophical tradition.
A student of Socrates, his dialogues use the Socratic method of question-and-answer to probe some of the most important questions humans have ever asked about our situation. What is true knowledge? How do we distinguish it from falsehood or mere opinion? Is the human soul immortal, and if so, what happens after death? How can we best organise a community and who should govern it? Should the arts be censored in the name of community wellbeing? What is the nature of true goodness, and how can a philosopher pursue the goal of achieving it?
This talk focuses on Plato’s masterpiece, the Republic, but also considers the importance of the dialogues which are set during the very last days of Socrates.
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Some new things to me about the key figure of antiquity. Bravo.
Excellent
Absolutely well done and definitely keep it up!!! 👍👍👍👍👍
I really hope Gresham College is getting a fair share of the advertising revenue CZcams is getting from these lectures, at an average ad every 5 minutes it makes the lectures almost unintelligible.
Plato's "Field Theory", The truth.
The noble lie???
Saying Plato was the first to give an "analytic" solution to "the problem of universals" that "cognitive science" tells us is "hardwired in our brain" is probably one of the dumbest attempts at historical revisionism I've ever heard and the speaker should be ashamed for expounding such a tasteless view.
Much rather have 'BC' and 'AD'.
In a lecture about Plato?
Plato hated democracy, did not defend political equality between citizens and refused the world as it is, imperfect and inevitably subject to petty and ridiculous conflicts. In the Platonic ideal world there was only place for Plato and everyone he transformed into characters in philosophical pantomimes that continue to inspire ideologists of authoritarian regimes and cause more confusion than political solutions. Plato's theory of knowledge is poor, but it remains extremely seductive because he was a skilled writer. In fact, his merit as an artist of words is greater than as a philosopher.
Sounds like Buddhism
People have drawn that parallel since antiquity.
Lots of Greek writing traveled east pretty early and influenced not only the west.
How can someone who has supposedly studied the Classics their whole life mispronounce and butcher virtually every persons' name? (Diotima = di OTI ma?????? vs. DIO-tima). Her utterly predictable Woke-Leftist interjections add nothing either. More fact, less opinions.