Plato: Biography of a Great Thinker
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- The Greek philosopher Plato was a student of Socrates, and teacher of Aristotle. He wrote on a wide variety of topics including Politics, Aesthetics, Cosmology, and Epistemology. To this day, we refer to “Platonic Love” and “Platonic Ideals.” Plato’s search for knowledge and truth formed the basis of much of Western Philosophy.
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my congratulations, you've done a great job summarizing the Life of Plato in just 7 minutes
great video
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lovely ,coherent, expressive, summarised presentation!
I appreciate your clear and succinct tutorial on Plato - this introduction serves as an incentive for me to further explore classical philosophy. Thanks very much.
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wow! this was very helpful to understand the life of Plato. Thank you so much for this video .It is indeed very informative an helpful
Thanks so much for this excellent summation; and the presenter is wonderful.
Well done for summing this up in seven minutes. It was very intriguing and it really did help me on my study for Plato it was a great video and I would just like to say a very big thank you
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Good, succinct bio, along with background of his most famous works. True importance & relevance to centuries hence, including our own 21st, not revealed but that would take many additional, in-depth discussions of each. Of course, Plato's founding of the Academy was a milestone in western civilization, giving birth to what generally became the universities we know so well today, though much de-valued and politically-biased.This is a nice, broad overview of the philosopher's life, which is what I was searching for, prior to tackling his actual works. I wanted to understand the man's place in his historical context, influences, what made him "tick", etc. Instructor clear & straightforward, easy to comprehend, without hyper-paced or gimmicky video-effects, so prevalent & tiresome in the vast majority of modern presentations. Thanks!
Been looking for three great little introduction type clips for a course I am teaching, these are great!!!
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this is very informative and clear, love it! if only more people would know the work of these great thinkers...
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*Show some Platonic Love for this Great Thinker*!
The Greek philosopher *Plato was a student of Socrates, and teacher of Aristotle*. He wrote on a wide variety of topics including Politics, Aesthetics, Cosmology, and Epistemology. To this day, we refer to *Platonic Love* and *Platonic Ideals*. Plato’s search for knowledge and truth formed the basis of much of Western Philosophy.
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my congratulations, you've done a great job summarizing the Life of Plato in just 7 minutes
great video
And let's not sell your namesake short either.
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This is a good introduction to Plato. Keep up the good work.
The theory of forms is definitely at the heart of playdough-nism.
Any kid at pre-school can tell you that. They carry this knowledge forward with them from earlier lives - which is an indication that this philosopher believed in re-incarnation, a process by which various bits of personally-collected, or personally-marked, sticks and sand and stuff remain contained within the dough even through many iterations of re-moulding, in which basically, the original dough has already mostly dehydrated and gotten dry and small and hard, but then as it is left lying around in some warm dark place, starts to ferment, and spores grow in it, and it turns into a large-again, new heap of pliable mould.
However, the 'forms' themselves, are usually in a different place, where the teacher has stacked them up in some dedicated drawer or something. And cleaned them, prior to putting them away. Those are the 'forms.' Which are different to all the mould. The fact is, both the mould and the forms are both likely made from petrochemical by-products, but according to Playdough (Registered Trademark), the mould is more of a pliable type of plastic stuff, whereas the forms are like ABS thermoplastic and are very rigid and never change. Indeed, whoever the German designer was who thought of the actual shapes themselves, has those drawings somewhere else altogether, prolly on the outside of the Chinese factory in which the manufactured forms are made.
Note: even though Playdough the inventor himself is very ancient, you can still get all the manuals, cheaply from a publishing house called 'Penguin Classics.' And from other places too. Some people are considered collectors of Playdough, and they have things like 'the Jowett Translation' in original hardback or even First Edition. But mostly, in the recent past history of say, three hundred years, such people were called Syndics, and went around with long faces because the English stole all their manuals and took them to these caves where ignorant savages lived, called 'Oxford' and 'Cambridge.' And those ignorant savages can still be found in those caves till this day.
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Hi Socratica ! I saw your videos on aristotle, socrates and others. They are great and fun watching them. At that time, when rome and greek were developing philosophy, India was developing in astronomy (calculating lunar and solar eclipse) and charak (he did first dissection). I would love if you can cast some light on these great people as well.
Thank you for these wonderful suggestions!
It was Sushruta who performed the first dissection
Thank you for making this informative video. With gratitude.
"Plato" is a plate/saucer in Filipino...its quite ironic,actually,that such serves knowledge to those who are hungry for such.
The facial expressions are priceless and the quality is undilluted
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Thanks so much for all the info this will help me so much on the project about Plato!
Awesome job!
thankyou. very informative and beautifully explained.
Is there a written script for your audio? I loved it
Wonderful video. It taught me much about Plato!!!👏👏👍😉✔✔
I'm reading The Complete Plato: who is my best friend, of course Socrates too, for Aristotle is part of our family..
wow, that's perfect, thank you
Love your video
I like how you present this
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In Plato's view, reality is unavailable to those who completely rely on their senses.
Thanks very much for breakfasting my brain in the morning. sitting in central library of Mehran UET, Jamshoro, Pakistan.
This presenter has excellent vocal control. Great job.
Thank you so much
Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, where all great philosophers.
Jeff James, Do you mean "were"? If so, why in Heaven's name, write "where"? Is it really so difficult to spell correctly??
Amazing Job
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I love this!
Nice Work!
I wonder how different the world would be now if the Greeks and Romans never went into war...
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Thanks for this information
If we can get a handle on time travel, I suggest sending a Periodic Table back in time where Plato can find it.
Amazing content
Socrates student was Plato, Plato's student was Aristotle, Aristotle's student was Alexander the Great.
And Alexander's bastard child is me.
Well presented. Excellent !
what is the name of that pretty lady giving these mini-lectures? she is great. i would have loved to have her be my teacher during my student days. in any case, i hope that she goes on to give lectures on many other philosophers, not only the Big Three (Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle) which she has already done, but also on some of the others, such as Baruch Spinoza, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, and Bertrand Russell. she might also consider giving such talks on some of Shakespeare's most important plays, such as the Big Seven (Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacBeth, and Anthony and Cleopatra)
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Thanks!
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Think "outside" or/and "inside" the "system"?
great video!
Hi dear,
Dear philosophical sister thank you for all the vital information but dear you missed many things such as plato was his nickname and Aristocles was his actual name.
The name of his parents, and you only mentioned Aristotle but what about xenocrates, eudoxus, heraclidus.
Thank you sister. 😊
Brilliant presentation. thank you for this :) I may also have a tiny crush on the host. ;)
I like these, these are full of facts!
Wow
Interesting
thank you for this video because its help me on my report
sorry for bad english 😅
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You are right to apologise? Have you no-one around to help you to write correctly?
very nice
Very good
Loved this thank you gorgeous woman. 🤗❤
I think I'm in love
Nice
Crazy how language has been manipulated to use BCE in just 9 years...
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Nthing understand
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Could do me a Platonic solid?
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*Progress... *Progress...
*[Insert religion] caused a 200 year setback.
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*[Insert religion] caused a 200 year setback.
UndeadUprisingChannel A lot of early muslim and christian scholars copied classical texts over and over again . Many of these ancient teachings wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the work of religious people.
Please cover India philosophy
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I want to know how they all ended up in that cave blind folded and forced to look 👀 at shadows all day..? I don’t understand what that had to do with the real world 🌎 today??? Is it implying some type of shadow government perhaps 🤔
WILHELM SCREAM LETS GOOOO
Plagiarism everywhere,but all speak of the after life.
The hierarchy is good., Thales/____/Plato/Socrates ., the same doubt why miss pythagoras., because in both age and nationality he is same as others and older than plato and socrates., even they both get ideas from pythagoras ., so just why ??????????
You claim to give a biography and yet you didn’t mention he was sold into slavery?
All these "great thinkers" gained their knowledge from outside sources and taught nothing new. Look deeper
I wonder if Plato's idea of concepts representing observerved pseudoreality is based in that this is what a baby learn first of all.
Can someone clear up something for... early Christianity started before the death of christ... or after... according to her...84bc
👇I'm watching this for a college class
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*Platonic Love*
*Read more*
Politics the worts thing that ever happened to human society
Worts and all. I ugri: terrybill.
Plato is corrupt.
Way to intelligent for this 50 woman. Learning all I can to start my nursing career here. What the heck was the Peloponnesian war? Just ask Google. What a time to be alive😁❤️🫶🏻📚🎶
Wonderful video. It taught me much about Plato!!!👏👏👍😉✔✔