How To Take Control Of Your Life - Plato (Platonic Idealism)
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- čas přidán 11. 06. 2024
- In this video we will be talking about how to take control of your life from the philosophy of Plato. His philosophy is often referenced as Platonic idealism. According to Plato, you need to take control over your life by first conquering yourself.
Another important lesson we can learn from Plato’s philosophy is that first you need to take control over your life by first conquering yourself, your impulses and drives, in order to live a moral and fulfilling life. To better understand the Platonic philosophy on how we can better take control over our lives, here are 5 lessons from the philosophy of Plato:
01. Change your mindset
02. Change your habits
03. Be in control of your emotions and behavior
04. Pursue your deepest passions
05. Be the leader of your life
I hope you enjoyed watching the video and hope these 5 ways to help you take control of your life from the philosophy of Plato will add value to your life.
Plato is one of the most famous philosophers of all time. He represented the philosophy of ancient Greece, belonging to its Classical Period. He was born into an aristocratic and influential family in Athens, where he founded the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the entire Western world. Along with his mentor Socrates, and his student Aristotle, Plato is one of the most influential individuals in the entire history of humankind. It can even be said that he is one of the pillars of Western civilisation. His philosophy is often referenced as Platonic idealism and his biggest contribution is the Theory of Forms or Doctrine of Ideas, which asserts that the physical world is not the real world. Instead, ultimate reality exists beyond our physical world, in the world of ideas. Plato was not only a prominent figure of philosophy, but also of religion and spirituality; so-called Neo-platonism deeply influenced Christian theology. Plato invented the written dialogue and dialectic form of philosophy. Some of his most famous books are The Republic, The Symposium, The Apology of Socrates, Allegory of the Cave and The Dialogues of Plato, in which the main character is Socrates, who influenced Plato’s philosophy to a great extent. His entire work has survived for more than 2,400 years and has remained very popular the entire time. Like his mentor, Plato was a practical philosopher and there are many life lessons to learn from his philosophy.
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Plato says “The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile.”
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I'm pretty sure Plato didn't do it all by himself.
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I lost control over it since I was 20 and I'm 27 now, it's sickening.. I never thought that the trauma and anxiety will keep me from living this long but it really did. Now I'm trying to process things as if I'm sinking deeply into an ocean and I'm trying to get rid of all what's weighing me down in order to reach the surface and breath some fresh air then go live on a land instead of the suffocating ocean.
Figure out what YOUR truth is. Who are you really? Go from there. You matter. You're worthy. DO YOU! Apologize later.
@@barbaracartwright468 thank you ♡ I appreciate your encouragement
Go to a Christian church and learn about Jesus. When you believe inHim, the Holy Spirit will definitely give you strength to overcome your problems.🙏🙏🙏
After a great loss in my life, philosophy saved me from the pain and suffering of this event, and during the healing process showed me how to straighten my life in issues I knew about but also in others I ignored, it got me close to myself, God and the rest of the world. Rasha Aya no matter how you feel inside, or what your past has been, life has given you the elements required to overcome the problems within you, just go straight to the true cause of your sorrows, and put them in the true dimensions they really are, you will find out that you are much stronger than you feel or think. My love and best wishes to you! and remember: Ne te quaesiveris extra!
Felt this. You're not alone & it's never too late :)
"One of the great philosophers of Greece, Plato, was a contemporary of Diogenes. They were continuously in controversy because Diogenes was a mystic and he knew things which Plato could not even dream of, although Plato was a great philosopher. And in the books and the histories of philosophy, you will find Plato, you will not find Diogenes. But the real thing was with Diogenes, not with Plato, who was a great thinker, a giant intellectual. Diogenes was a simple, childlike, innocent man, but he knew something which thousands of Platos together could not know.
One day, when Plato was on a morning walk by the side of the sea, he saw a man. It was early in the morning, a little dark - the sun had not risen yet. He could not figure out who the man was. This man was Diogenes and in a spoon he was bringing… He would go to the ocean, take the water in the spoon - he had made a small hole in the sand - pour the water into the sand, and then go back.
Plato, standing there, saw him doing it. He looked like a madman. For a moment he thought, “I should not interfere.” But such is the mind - it becomes curious: “Maybe he is not mad; perhaps he is doing something meaningful and I am not aware of it. And what is wrong if I ask him?” So he said, “Please forgive me for interrupting. I don’t want to interrupt you - you may be involved in some great work - but what is going on?”
Diogenes said, “I am trying to empty the ocean.”
Plato said, “My God, with this teaspoon?”
And then the sun was rising and Diogenes started laughing and said, “Plato, what else are you doing?” Then Plato recognized Diogenes. He used to live naked, but that day he was covered with a cloth, just to hide himself, so Plato would not know him at first. Otherwise he might not have interrupted.
Plato was simply stunned, he could not answer. Diogenes said, “That’s what you are trying to do. Your mind is nothing but a teaspoon and with it you are trying to exhaust the oceanic existence. What I am doing is just to remind you… I know it is not possible. You should also remember that what you are doing is impossible.”
Kind of what I needed to hear, ty. It's still worth it to try, even if it's impossible. Some interesting things can be revealed.
Ancient wisdom is the best guide. Gratitude. I seriously follow your channel and make notes. You are providing an invaluable service.
Achieve your goals:
1. Change your mindsets, find the truth; reasoning using your mind. Look inside yourself, what is right and wrong;
2. Change your habits. We achieve excellence by acting rightly; practice, practice, practice ;
3. Be in control of your emotions and behaviour. Act only knowing the consequence, in accord with reason;
4. Pursue your deepest constructive and noble passions, not sensual or worldly passions;
5. Be the leader of your life. Take control of your minds thoughts.
Thanks man my mind is a big picture thinker...
And it gets bogged down when too much details are mentioned.
Sure the details are helpful but a short overview at the end gives me a perfect to-do list
Stay away from people with low self-esteem. They are negative to the point of being evil.
I love this video. I’ve been writing music as my release and I’m thankful for my friends who’ve helped me get my thoughts out to the world. After July 19th, 2023 I’ll be playing music 100% of the time.
Thats an incredibly specific timeline. Hope it works out for you!!
3more months 🎉
Highly praised for his intelligency
I'm glad that my mindset is something that is wrong, and there is hope to fix it, Now I know that reality around me I can't force to change it, by How I react properly. Thank you Plato🥰
I love the ancients thoughts and their sharing of such. To me, spirituality is knowledge of everything and our place in it, and it is also self help psychology……all in one.
@@oldstyle-Danish-exmil.officer not to put anything into a box or label but that is also classical stoicism.
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This video tutorial was very helpful.
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Same here
Beautiful Plato.
Excellent, thank you.
Great and useful video! Thanks!
❤ change your mindset and you can elevate your life 🙏🏾 4 the best of real life 💯 👌🏾 ✨ 🙌
Very nice. Thank you
thank you!
Certainly, there is no replacement for a well-disciplined life according to Plato's philosophy, but we need to remember, too, that we live in a world of blood sucking vampires who are always trying to control us and others. My point is that sometimes we need more than self-discipline. Sometimes we need to be liberated from oppressive situations. Such a philosophy as Plato's should also help us to recognize those things (people, drugs, etc.) which are holding us back.
I often question what are these blood suckers you speak of. Do they actually exist? Or is it what we see alone that makes them real?
Like, say the government, because most beleive they are infact blood suckers. Is this the only reason they are? Its my beleif thats the case. And we possibly could be the blood sucker we are blaming
@@quintonsuyker6526 The blood suckers I speak of are those who very naturally fit into or make use of our present economic system. That is, one can take advantage of another as long as such a deal is within the limits of the law. I have found in my life that many people care about being fair in their dealings with others, and I have found that there are many others who will take advantage of others for economic gain no matter how cruel and unfair the deal. Just because one can take advantage of another does not mean that one should.
Disciplined thought and action, in the Platonic sense, is certainly desired, but my point is that it is not the whole story. An extreme example would be a well disciplined philosopher living in Ukraine. No matter how well disciplined such a one is, if his house and business are bombed out of existence, all that he had worked for is lost because of some others thirst for power completely out of his hands. Less extreme, the same is true for factory workers fighting for better conditions-many times we are at the hands of blood sucking vampires. The old saying is still true. It’s not what you know; It’s who you know. It’s not how well disciplined you are; it’s who you’re related to. I’ve seen old men who have worked hard and lived disciplined lives, still die in poverty.
To the *incredible person* seeing this, I wish you all the best in life❤ don't over blame yourself, accept things and go forward. Don't let others define what “success” is for you. Get up, learn the skills needed and get after it, all the keys to a happy life is in your hands. Keep pushing.
really enjoyable and clear, thanks :)
Nice work.
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I wrote a book called irrefutable inspiration by Wesley A. Greene It was my journey to self awareness through miraculous events bordering on miracles to Basic every day things that most of us take for granted and don’t even see and the power is small and seemingly uneventful things brought me to happiness and control of my life
I liked it very much
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We interpret the world around us according to our own vision. This is why you have to change your mentality first if you want to make an impactful change.
Always appreciate your content. Thank you.
Great video! I miss me some Plato/Socrates....need to read more again soon!
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It’s a journey, but it’s one worth taking.
Imagine bringing him back for a chat 💬 & a blunt 🔥🔥🔥
This why spirituality works
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The chariot concept is also mentioned in Geeta, by Lord Krishna
I don’t have one, I have many and big problems and I cannot solve none of them. How can I be calm and control the things is hurting me while I cannot change or control ? It’s still hurting me and sucking my energy each second while I’m alive...
You need Jesus’ sacrificing love. His words in the Bible will comfort you and make you strong.
His lectures are structured in this essay like way. If I were to write word for word I would have the best paper (I promise I would never do that) I love this Chanel!!!
They are essays (Video Essays). The imagery just helps u lock in the info easier.
And keeping myself busy
Academia is school as you mentioned in 10:10 - 10:15, and not University as you mentioned in 1:50 - 1:55 , or am i wrong?
Wasn't world's first university nalanda ?
Plato was racist (12:46) and as a black African man I am offended. How do you liken a black horse as ugly and bad😳😡😤👊🏾 That philosophical statement is degrading and unacceptable! Such an illustrative elaboration can't augur well within the racial spaces... I demand an apology from Plato (RIP). I otherwise, agree with most of his philosophical thoughts and concepts. Just had to vent out that piece. One love.✌🏾🙏🏾😅
There is a will to fail, a destructive force inside all of us. Overcoming this is not easy but must nevertheless be attempted. We fail our children by not teaching this at school.
Now I deeply understand why mostly the western world 🌎 is under so severe anxiety.
Pluto's a Planet.
what's up with this colour theory for good and evil?
Talks about Plato, proceeds to Walt Disney !!
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There were many glorious universities destroyed before Plato
Timbuktu was around before....just an fyi
Dont conform and never let anyone tell you what to do with it.
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How to avoid someone who will not take a hint
I don't like how this has been used to justify shame based treatment for drug addiction when we know now that it objectively doesn't work for most people.
Hold on, 15th minute, my boss steals my idea and I react “emotionally” because I’m an alcoholic?
Wtf just happened?
This is all very well in the world of the comfortable but the oppressed and starving can gain little comfort here. Same with the hollow platitudes of Buddhism - if we all practice 'acceptance' no one would invent anything or ever take a medicine. Has the Dalai Lama had his covid shots?
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I challenge that this was the world's 1st university - Historically Timbuktu - Hundreds of thousands of manuscripts were written in Timbuktu. I struggle with your black and white horse idea! The concept is fine however the b/w comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification is outdated in the age of inclusion and diversity.
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The last point is possibly toxic advice depending on the receiver.
How many people have you met who are so damn sure of themselves and their experience, capabilities and wisdom. In their mind they are the best person for the job and a natural born leader, and then when you let them take control they're a bumbling fool who has no idea what they're doing and you realize they're a walking skin suit supported by nothing but their over inflated ego.
Is it that only unintelligent people think more of themselves than is reality?
Plato did not start the first University.
Plato was around approximately 300-400 BC. Out of curiosity, are you thinking it was by someone before or after this period?
@@keno8445 their were university way before Plato time
Lost in translation my Latin fails me Socrates was the man
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If he only knew university would turn to shit he would not have started it.,
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The first library and university was in Africa FACT! Plato learned from Africans as well as Aristotle the early Egyptians were African ALL FACTS!
ok so the first library you speak of was literally in the city if alexandria which was built after alexander the great conquered egypt. it was built by greeks which last i checked were not africans. plato did learn from EGYPTIANS which were in no way a purely black or sub saharan culture.but yeah sure steal and use history thats not yours(jk) but forreal dude next time you try and show how great your culture is and african history and culture is extraordinary for sure you dont have to resort to telling lies to make it look better. i get it dude if i was a black african person it would be dope iof egypt was creted by a purely dark skinned african culture. but its just not even close to being true. african history has been overlooked and understated throughtout history. i feel it has started a trend where you see all these videos claiming dark skinned african created everything first built everything were superior in every way then the white cultures stole it all or some shit its going to fuck peoples heads up. they do exactly what you did in this comment they use half truths as FACTS. sad part is you liked what you heard so much you didnt even check if it was true. in 30 seconds you could have found out everything you just typed was false smh. i really hope you dont come back with some theres a world wide conspiracy where every single historian and academic across the entire length of human history has been keeping africans from their true history. i dont watch youtube history videos from people without expertise like went to school for fucking years. you want to know why? because when i see a video of some white person whos in no way an expert its pretty much sounds like you except instead of african its europeans who built everything. its all weird and racist honestly.
also the university you speak of is not the oldest as there are older ones in india and other hindu and buddhist countries so.
What are your sources to such startling statements?
@@johncollins211 well egypts progenitors did come from southern Africa. The Greeks also said their gods take vacation in Ethiopia.
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Eurocentric commentators are not even ashamed of blatant lies Plato was not the first major philosopher.neither was his academy the first university. Yes his philosophy is not only great but was rejected by te West in favor of the third rate philosopher namely Aristotle . The entire Platonic philosophy had been explained hundreds of years earlier in the Indic world the study of the self was avery important theme in Nadia way before Plato. How much f his thought came from India is not that debatable It camE through Pythagoras and Parmenides who reflect Indic Monistic thought through and through. The white man cannot good be credit to the Dark skinned Indians .
3rd rate philosopher Aristotle 😬 His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, meteorology, geology, and government. What have you written extensively about?
@@sof553 third rate wrong about sll his physics biology astronomy his hatred gif zero infinity his hatred of thd resl philosophers like Parmenides snd Plato his support of slavery misogyny are part of his fake epistemology that goes sll the way to Hume Kant Mill and Hegel he has no understanding of inductive logic a field that Indic philosophers excelled in in pramsna shastra
You have been brainwashed into thinking thst Doxa or prejudiced opinion is thd truth I have had long discussion with my brother who holds a Ph D in philosophy from I Diana university in Aristotelian logic even he has had no answers to this the west loves him because without proof he says a thousand things to justify ethnocentrecusm. Why do you think you like him what are his contributions
Sorry Indiana university
Eurocentric commentators are open to all sorts of amendments to history as long as they're backed with evidence. It has long been hypothesized Indian philosophers had an influence on western philosophers. Why this constant spite characterizing Westerners as liars and thieves?
@@arunjetli7909 one of the most influential philosophers of all time. You are saying he hated Plato and Parmenides that’s a bit strong to be fair and if you are making a claim like that please show your evidence. Disagree does not equal hate. For me his most outstanding areas are Logic (basic foundations of all modern computer programming) biological investigations and classification and his texts on politics and metaphysics. I definitely don’t agree with everything he says or wrote nor do I agree totally with any philosopher. If you are studying philosophy and you don’t cover Aristotle you’re are not getting a rounded perspective on philosophical thought.
I think that Plato is quite toxic. His world is a fairy tale disconnected from reality. And good and bad principle only makes people feel worse and hate themselves.
Can you please supply me with referencies to your treatises?
The dialogue here is pretty racist
I hate the analogy of the horses, why does the black horse have to be bad and ugly and the white nice and modest???
I'm not about compliance, sorry but the people in positions of power need to be held accountable for their immoralities and this shows nothing of that. Personally speaking of course.
Thoughts of Plato are absolutely irrelevant in 2022. They didn’t even have proper toilets, nor they knew electricity.
@@quintonsuyker6526 it’s a dumb question. Homo sapiens is an aggressive monkey, with activated promiscuous gen, that helped him to survive. Everything else is fantasies
@@quintonsuyker6526 so how about sex and wine as the real meaning of life?)
The world is changing , but human beings are still the same: self righteousness, greedy, selfish, full of pride and lots of sinful thoughts. In some ways, we try to do good, however, the lust and desire deep inside our hearts fail us. The struggle never ends, we need to find the best way out of all the problems. The way can be found only in the Bible.
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In the year 507 B.C., the Athenian leader Cleisthenes introduced a system of political reforms that he called demokratia, or “rule by the people” (from demos, “the people,” and kratos, or “power”). It was the first known democracy in the world.Aug 19, 2019
The white horse was good and the black horse was bad 👎🏿
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Im nothing. I come to Allah as nothing. Empty, so Allah can teach me. Im nobody but a slave and dependent on Allah. I make mistakes and i love alot. So i already know i don't trust my judgment. I go to Allah and my guardian Angels. Not me! Everyday is a new day new era new life never lived . So im just trying to learn. Im trying to recognize that im not the master, if i knew everything then I wouldn't go through these mistakes and sins and imperfections. So i can learn to accept and recognize myself. And to change that about my mistakes and imperfections and sins.
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