The Philosophy Of Plato

is there anyone in the field of philosophy who has a healthy brain?

What a memorable person in the philosophy scene.

Plato was write about education being necessary.
The U.S education system is a failure and look at how divided our democratic Republic is.
If only we could actually fix our broken systems.

We hear Plato because he was a "Satanist" who TOLD YOU he was a liar and a destroyer~!
Only a dipshit who would say BCE would also like Plato~!

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I never really got an education , but i find this so intresting, is there any kind soul here willing to link me more of these eye opening videos?

Listening to how a republic gets corrupted, it seems obvious what has happened to America and the western world. All the wealth has been funneled to a few and we are left uneducated and subject to intense censorship and propaganda.

Girl Im crying I've already written 3 paragraphs and I'm only 4 minutes in but thanks for the vid, listening to someone teach the topic helps me understand it more rather than just reading it. :)

Greek philosophy, Roman law/order, and Catholic Theology.

Play-Doh

Read the War of the Ancients by Aldinon Exilus. It's an ode to Plato.

Evil. Sending 10 year old children in the hands of Stranger Men God knows what they did to those poor boys. Instead of household Father Mother being United under God. It’s Sodomized by some Freemason in that time practiced their philosophy. They Trick causing pain and chaos. Plato knew what Demonic energy did and if he could Inflict so much pain to Society the energy through him feeding those demonic making and nourishing more. Downright was a Mirror Image of Todays Alastir Crowley and Anton LeVay.
Jesus is truth and real and living Past Present Future

You misspoke. It's not B.C.E. it's B.C.

MARX GOT MOST OF HIS BASIC CONCEPTS FROM PLATO HIS CLASSLESS SOCIETY IS PLATO'S GYPSIFIED IDEAL STATE

T. MOORE FELL IN SAME FANTASY TRAP
ONCE IN REALM OF FANTASY ANYTHING GOES.....!!! HE WAS CREATING MONOTHEISM WITH POPE HIMSELF AND HIS LIKES HE WOULD DECIDE WHAT IS GOOD OR BAD RIGHT OR WRONG THE INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN THE IDEAL AND ORDINARY PEOPLE EVEN IF HE AND SOCRATES WOULD BE THE IDEAL KINGS HOW COULD HE BE SURE THAT OTHERS WOULD ALSO BE SO???

Can a perfectly just society ever exist, or are injustice and inequality inevitable parts of human nature?

" Plato is simply a record-keeper — he has not a single idea of his own! He is a devoted lover of Socrates, and whatever Socrates says, he goes on recording it, writing it. Socrates has not written anything — just as no great master has ever written anything. And Plato is certainly a great writer; perhaps Socrates may not have been able to write so beautifully. Plato has made Socrates’ teachings as beautiful as possible, but he himself is no one. Now the same work can be done by a tape recorder. And Aristotle is merely an intellectual, with no understanding of being, or even a desire to search for it. These people are taught in the universities. I was constantly in a fight with my professors. When they started teaching Plato, I said, “This is absolute nonsense, because Plato has nothing to say of his own. It is better to teach about Socrates. Plato can be referred to — he has compiled it all. But Socrates’ name has become almost a fiction, and Plato has become the reality”


Plato’s allegory is of slaves who, working in a cave, see only their shadows on the walls and believe that what is happening on the walls is the only reality. They don’t know of any other reality except those shadows… they don’t even know that those shadows are their own. They know nothing about the outside world, outside their cave; it doesn’t exist for them. This is one of the most beautiful allegories — of tremendous importance. It is our allegory. Translated into our life, it means we are living in a certain cave and we are seeing shadows on a certain screen and we know nothing else about the screen. We know nothing about there being a world beyond the screen; we know nothing about these shadows on the screen, even that they are our own. Looked at rightly, it is the allegory of our mind.

What do you know of the world? Just a small skull is your cave; and just the screen of your mind… and the things which you call thoughts, emotions, sentiments, feelings, are all shadows — they don’t have any substance in them. And you get angry, you get depressed, you are in anguish — because you have learned to be identified with those shadows. You are projecting them; they are your own shadows. It is your own anger that is projected on the screen of the mind. And then it becomes a vicious circle: that anger makes you more angry, more anger projects more anger, and so on and so forth. And

we go on living our whole life without ever thinking that there is a world of reality beyond the mind, on the outside, and there is also a world of reality beyond all these sentiments, feelings, emotions — beyond your ego. That is your awareness.

The whole art of meditation is to bring you out of the cave so that you can become aware that you are not those shadows but that you are a watcher. And the moment you become a watcher, a miracle happens: those shadows start disappearing. They feed on your identity; if you feel identified with them, then they are there. The more you identify with them, the more nourished they are.

When you are just a watcher — just seeing, not judging, not condemning — slowly, slowly those shadows disappear, because now they don’t have any food. And then there is such a tremendous clarity, perceptivity, that you can see the world beyond — the world of sunrise and the world of clouds and the world of the stars; that is your outside. And you can become aware of your inside, which is far more mysterious.

The outside world is so beautiful, but the inside world is a thousand fold more beautiful.

Once you are somehow capable of getting out of the cave you become part of a universal consciousness.

Inside, you have the whole eternity; you have been here forever and you will be here forever. Death has never happened and cannot happen. And outside there is a tremendously beautiful existence. And now to call them `outside’ and `inside’ is not right; those are the old words when the skull was dividing them in two. Now it is one. Your consciousness and the beauty of a sunset and the beauty of a starry night, your consciousness and the freshness of a rose — they are no longer separate because the principle of separation is no longer there. It is all one cosmic whole. And I call this experience the only holy experience.

To experience the whole is the only holy experience. It has nothing to do with churches, temples, synagogues; it has something to do with you coming out, slipping out of the clutches of the mind. And it is not difficult, it is just that you have not tried it.


Plato’s allegory rightly depicts the situation which we are in. But Plato never went further than that. Plato himself was never a meditator; the allegory remained a philosophical idea. If he had interpreted this allegory and had given it a turn towards meditation, the whole Western mind would have been different. This allegory would have changed the whole Western mind and the history that followed Plato — because Plato is the founder of the whole Western mind.

Socrates never wrote anything; he was Plato’s master. Whatever we have about Socrates is from Plato’s notes of him talking with others — the famous Socratic dialogues. As a student he was just taking notes on them. Those notes have survived. In those notes is this allegory. It is difficult to know for what purpose Socrates was using the allegory, but it is certain that Plato misused it — he was not a man who was in search of truth, he was a man who wanted to think about truth. But to search for truth is one thing and to think about truth is totally different: thinking keeps you within the cave. It is only non-thinking that can take you out of the cave."

Bce is weird

Wow Plato had it right

Brilliantly explained

I can't help but hearing "playdoh" but he's the man.

Thank you for helping EFFICIENTLY bridge a decades long gap for me in my education! I’ll be looking forward to watching all of your videos ! Could I also suggest Maimonides if he’s not on here yet ?

BCE? 🤦🏼‍♂️

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i suppose an all encompassing education on Plato is not possible within 15 mins

No wonder our public education system doesn’t teach Plato or any relevant knowledge to earning a living, social skills or civil responsibilities.

I read Theatetus while sitting on the walls of the remnants of The Academy during my trip to Athens last year. A truly magical moment

Thank you for the information.

you look at how strong all these people where... nobody like that now... all these pills and injections are clearly not normal.

Plato was gay

I do not want to be a hero or a villain. l am not trying to be a good person or a bad
person. l am exactly the kind of person l need to be in any given situation. lf l'm good
or bad in that situation is not for me to say but for an outside observer. If 100 people
observe me in that situation they will create 100 different ideas about how good or
bad a person l am. None of their observations change the reality of who l am.

Building Utopia.....shows picture of dystopian city.

Was Plato psychic? 🤔Hmmm

There should be a test or screening process for voting for officials. Just like jury selection. How can we just by chance hope our rulers will be best qualified? In the latest trump dibalical , here clearly is a maniac trying to seek revenge , for the actions he is accused of. His deliberate attempt to over throw an election causing death and destruction should not go unpunished, yet blind followers who despise democrats choose to support a felon as their leader? Hatred of another party should not be your reasoning for political leadership. Every voter should not be a blind follower of a particular party.
The issues are what’s important for all peoples, not just for a few, and trust.

Who determines the questions, tests and what the "correct" answers are? There is a built in bias depending on who's utopian plan this is and how-why they created it.
Excellent thought experiment and worth reading-evaluating Plato's Republic.

Plato the father of western philosophy and all of its flaws.

Christ upholds virtue the samw way as Plato, even higher. Mercy and kindness are not a weakness. Thank you for the analysis. What a great system it sounds like

This sounds like the prequel to the hunger games or that movie snow preacher...the back of the train alwase has spair parts...........use your own kids leve mine alone

Whilst Plato among others strove for idealism and made sense out of what was at hand and tried to work out ways that might fit the agenda to make things better for all concerned. Jesus had the upper hand when he released the animals and upturned the money tables as he knew damn well that by destroying the catylist that prevents mankind from becoming a world wide perpetual peaceful race of beings by exercising empathy towards ourselves and all creatures and the planet in general then the monetary system must be eradicated, plain and simple and you can argue about it all day long and try to come up with alternative ways of being by retaining what has through the ages destroyed us by class and monetary segregation but you won't and not even the likes of Plato and his counterparts that hold my respect.

Leaders who come from poverty. Bill Clinton was a Great president

Kindness and charity for the weak is just one of many things that Jesus stood for.

Philosopher's so-called Wisdom can only be applied to the farcical phantasy that exists between their ears. Philosophers are just entertainers; like musicians, actors, athletes, and novelists are entertainers. They produce nothing real. Only childish and irresponsible phantasy. When you become a MAN, put away childish things, like entertainment and phantasia.

We do know where Plato was during his "travelling" years... He was in the custody of Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse. As related in Plutarch's Lives... the life of Dion.

I think Plato gave too much credit and thus power to the State. His ideas are almost legalist in that they propose an all powerful state that should exist by deception, that all must serve. (The Republic).

Aristotle's ideas of "right" government I believe are more applicable to reality and human nature.

Not me watching this an hour before the exam

I am obsessed with the allegory of the cave. It frightened me at first but then i came to see it as something for humanity to look forward to. Breaking through barriers of knowledge and coming to understand ourselves and the world around us on a deeper level.

Plato promotes lack

I wonder, did any Philosophers think that one day in the future ,we would all be holding hands across the world and singing songs of unity? Funny, they never mention anything even close to that!😊

He totally said Play-doh , and right at the beginning too......I listened to it all and it all makes sense now.