Plato's Republic and his critique of Greek education

[@mathewbrown9371]

Hi Dr. Masson, I can’t thank you enough for your incredible channel, a massive wealth of knowledge. To answer your question, at OISE they do not teach you the Republic in the teachers’ education program. No John Dewey either unfortunately. Anyway, I think your lectures are making a difference to a core group who want to learn deeply in these subjects. Best of luck!

[@LitProf]

You’re very welcome. It’s certainly frustrating that the field of education doesn’t even introduce different theoretical approaches to pedagogy in history. How can a humanities discipline not consider what humanity has had to say on such an important subject? If it only listens to what our contemporaries say, how do they avoid chronological snobbery/ recency bias?

[@imcat-holic10]

Hi Dr. Masson, Thank you so much for posting these wonderful teachings for free. It has made my day as it made me both think and laugh.

[@LitProf]

You are very welcome

[@claudette4113]

Thank you Dr Masson. Your work is of immense importance.

[@EmanFouad-i1f]

Thank you so much Dr. Masson for sharing these lectures with us

[@claudette4113]

Your analysis of The Cave is the best I have ever heard and I have heard many. Thank you.

[@PJ-ns6um]

"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth." -Plato

[@ReneePsalm18]

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[@pninnabokov3734]

How disheartening to hear California Universities have eliminated Shake-speare's works from the curriculum. Years ago, trying to obtain a B.A. in English Lit. at a Montreal University it was compulsory to take a course in second-class playwrights such as Aphra Behn and others. Consequently, I wrote to Prof. Harold Bloom bemoaning this fact. Professor Bloom commiserated and invited me to attend his Shake-speare course at Yale. I flew in the following week for his class on Richard III. He graciously signed a copy of his, "Hamlet, Poem Unlimited" which I gave to my favorite Lit. professor and my copy of his, "The Western Canon" and "Shake-speare, the Invention of the Human" and posed for photos with me. Fortunately, although we had a brief, but heated disagreement on something or other we parted as friends. haha GB

[@PJ-ns6um]

"Only though history does a people become completely conscious of itself. Accordingly, history can be thought of as the rational self consciousness of the human race." -schopenhauer

[@PJ-ns6um]

"The philosopher is a friend of the universal. Whereas history teaches us that at each time something different has been, philosophy endeavors to assist us to the insight that at all times exactly the same was, is and will be." --Schopenhauer

[@sanjoopkakat6579]

Hi Dr Masson. Thank you for uploading these wonderful videos. How would the philosopher know that what he understands as justice or truth or beauty is true? Is it that we have to believe in his word? I can understand your argument that there is a superior, universal and unchanging principle of justice or beauty which is inaccessible empirically. But, how to account for the change, that we undergo as human beings if we derive our practice from the superior theory? It was wonderful listening to you.

[@LitProf]

Because of Pythagoras, Plato understood that truth of the intellect could be demonstrated geometrically and also heard musically.

[@sanjoopkakat6579]

@@LitProf Thank you 😊

[@tomasomaonaigh7659]

20 mins in, was not the light in the cave caused by a fire, not the sun? Also, the blank slate idea, are we not born in Gods image, or perhaps, the seeds are planted in us, but given the fall, we need watered by Christ to become Christian? I am most pleased to have come across your good self.

[@LitProf]

Plato (and the Greeks) didn’t think man was born in God’s image. That’s a Christian formulation.

[@pninnabokov3734]

Please accept my apology for any offending remarks. I am guilty of the little known sin of cantankerousness. Thank you. GB

[@PJ-ns6um]

"The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. -Robert Heinlein

[@AleArek]

Such a shame if plato or socrates wouldnt be saved because they were before Christ. Considering they aknowledged existence of ideal God and importance of morality without Holy Spirit just by reasoning. Compared to them I am not worthy yet saved. Who am I to argue its unjust.

[@remij9592]

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[@sandrarr5434]

Hello. Why do we have Literary terms please? Where was it born? Thanks in advance.

[@LitProf]

Established in the Hellenistic period. They are the tools and measures and weights of the field that permit rational discussion.