Plato's Philebus -- Brief Introduction

[@orsolyakunkli7876]

Such a great explanation, thank you so much Sir!

[@rktsnail]

Excellent video

[@platosworld]

Thanks!

[@AbhaPol]

This video explanation of the dialogue proves very helpful. Looking forward to more of your videos. Thankyou!

[@platosworld]

My "pleasure"!

[@sadmankabir]

I must say you make it sound so much more understandable. I wish to be as good as as you. Thanks.

[@platosworld]

I'm sure I've missed a great deal about the dialogue, but I hope that the intro helps you find your way

[@helge136]

I found these videos helpful when studying Plato. Thanks for the uploads!

[@SevenFootPelican]

Me too

[@book-dy4bc]

Thank you for the helpful intro

[@platosworld]

My pleasure (so to speak), and you're welcome.

[@pennyroyal7383]

Excellent, thank you

[@platosworld]

You're welcome

[@colinnicholson1546]

Does not the dialogue within the dialogue consist of wisdom and mind judging which pleasures are to be admitted into the mixed life, and not the pleasures judging among themselves?

[@platosworld]

Sorry to take so long to reply ... Yes, you're right--thank you for the correction. The dialogue-within-the-dialogue falls into two parts: the dialogue with the pleasures (63b-c), in which they affirm including in the mixture of the best life all pleasures, and the dialogue with the arts or sciences or wisdom or mind or memory or right opinion (Socrates lays it on thick here!) (63c-64a), in which Mind admits only the true and necessary or pure pleasures and excludes the violent pleasures. This passage underscores Protarchus' attachment to Mind over pleasure--a certain type of beautiful mind--which ends up being codified in the ranking of the elements of the best life in the conclusion.

[@agorawindowcleaningllc451]

Thanks so much for the precise and succinct summary. I know there have been many philosophers throughout history that have made an impact on metaphysics and epistemology so who would you say has had the most influence? I’ve read Some of Aristotle, Thomas aquinas, Nietzsche and a few others, but i am staring to see a lot of their ideas are mere comments, refutations, or elucidating what Plato has said.

[@platosworld]

I think you've hit the nail on the head. As Alfred North Whitehead quipped, all of Western philosophy is but footnotes to Plato. That said, it can be useful to start with what is first for us: the crisis of the West, which is expressed most beautifully and powerfully by Nietzsche.

[@agorawindowcleaningllc451]

@@platosworld thank you for taking the time to respond. And keep the videos coming!

[@platosworld]

@@agorawindowcleaningllc451 You're welcome. More on their way.

[@jyotikongrailatpam6528]

Really helpful ..Sir could you please make a video on Plato 's concept of communism of property and wives

[@jyotikongrailatpam6528]

@@platosworld thank you 🤗

[@donutthrow9946]

WHY IS IT THE PHILEBUS? 'THE LORD JIM'? 'THE HUCKLEBERRY FIN'?

[@platosworld]

It's actually THA PHILEBUS