Plato

[@BloodyBastian]

I've been loving your lectures, and they have helped me a lot to have a better understanding of philosophy. They are very accesible, even if english is not my native language. Thank you.

[@cygnus8459]

Thank you for excellent presentation. Clearly a huge amount of work went into this. Much much appreciated!!

[@pony25fly]

will done Dr. Brown. thank you for your wisdom.

[@ssr846]

many thanks. i like the explanation a lot. car parking example really made it interesting. and the plato gets better and better explained. thanks.

[@emt9103]

Remarkably clear lecture about Plato and his philosophy!

[@croatian754278]

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!! Now I'm in Tokyo Japan at my last year of Masters degree, taken a course in Western philosophy. It's all in Japanese of course. Although I can speak Japanese the prof. speaks so fast I understand very little...the exams are approching, so this is life saving material for me! Can't wait to see the other lectures because I truly enjoyed it, really awesome and well explained material!!!

[@geeharris5150]

Bull shit at its finest......men vain attempts to play Yah....you don't need that degree bro...

[@TarekFahmy]

Amazing series....

[@FireTex1]

Very good....enjoyed this lecture very much and I now have a bit better conception of what Plato was trying to teach. Thank You

[@susanmcdonald6879]

thanks for spreading the good news, helping me to understanding Plato better & making me laugh too :)

[@petaandrews6424]

Thank you for sharing your lectures online. Nice to learn comprehensively without having to leave the house. This is just the beginning of my educational endeavours.

[@ludwingalbert4871]

The great and powerful lecturer, we meet at last , thank you for this amzing lectures

[@manikandanav65]

Thanks Mr.Brown! Thats Fantastic!

[@elhamrose]

Thank you so much Dr Richard for your fine lecture and amazing education and knowledge you have. Thank you always

[@TarekFahmy]

great effort,,,,thanks a lot..

[@niceatheist666]

Very good. Thank you for posting these lectures.

[@alwaysincentivestrumpethic6689]

Great work as always

[@dr.lambda9163]

Nice explanation of the Allegory of Caves. I often heard about it but your explanation made me understand it. The Divided Line explanation was really interesting too.

[@YommiOfficial]

I'm just starting to get into philosophy just for personal learning and I was following fine until the pictorial representation of the divided line which threw me off a bit. When you said he was set free and saw the clay star which he then perceived (one step above imagining the shadows were the real objects), meaning "oh that's the real object" and nothing more. The confusion starts when he then climbs to the surface to see the shadow of a tree which you related to reasoning. The only way I see that as reasoning is the fact that at that point he was aware of the distinction between shadows and objects with substance so he was then able to apply a lower Form to shadows. Then once his eyes adjusted he was able to see the actual tree (and stars and rocks and everything else), which is understanding -i think- because he was able to grasp the contrast between multiple different objects and develop higher Forms through experience to relate them (like beauty), then I understand The Good, no question there. I probably have this all twisted but I already ordered Allan Bloom's translation of The Republic so I'm sure to grasp it during that read. Could anyone let me know how horribly/well I understood it?

[@ottegin]

Thanks for this and other helpful lectures.

[@longcastle4863]

The dog knows that those trees may be places where other dogs have left scents. It's not like the trees are a blank slate to them

[@EJ-bn3tc]

Million times better than my high school teacher!

[@marianomariomagaia8406]

Very very helpful lecture. Thank you for sharing your philosophical knowledge

[@operaguy1]

"The Good." Ungrounded floating abstraction.

[@violet101]

is the form of the Good like self consciousness that encompasses understanding, reason and imagination?

[@artlessons1]

Aristotle introduced Metaphysics as a response to Plato's theory of the forms. Aristotle's metaphysics ( after or from nature or physics) explains how things animate into becoming to be through the stages of cause and effect. Making science out of philosophy. I do enjoy your presentation other than what I feel is using metaphysics as being prior to Aristotle.

[@jacobvandijk6525]

I like the Forms of Scarlett as much as the Forms of Plato ;-)

[@violet101]

i love ur drawings :3

[@NikephorosAer54]

The most tuching that you mention, Dear Teacher Richard, is that the Sun, the Light, represents the G o o d ! A Greek friend, Demetrios Maniates.

[@TheSurvivorjunkie]

2 questions, could it be the case that we know the form of water now because of scientific discovery, namely, that water is composed of 2 hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atoms arranged in a certain way in which no other compound is? And also, when you used male as an example of a form, isn't there a physical aspect to being a male, and not necessarily a non-physical aspect to being a male which defines it? please respond, and thank you.

[@Intjwithocd]

Brilliant

[@cygnus8459]

Just think what this world would be like if all took this to heart. Heaven!

[@OriginalMrsniffles]

what would be an empirical response to Plato's claim of what real knowledge is?

[@isaacmarwell5435]

Bertrand Russell has written on this.

[@isaacmarwell5435]

For me, statistical computing in the brain of received sensory input, classical and operant conditioning, and Chomsky's Universal Grammar cover empirically what Plato calls knowledge.

[@nuqleo]

muy bueno

[@hegelsbagels2006]

Please Help! What would Plato say is a universal, non-physical, and eternal commonality of all trees? Can it be described by language?

[@dr.lambda9163]

I think that animals do abstract. You can, for example, easily teach some kinds of animals to react in a certain way to people of a certain age group or to certain kinds of objects. This would be impossible if animals did not abstract because then they would never apply the learned reaction to new instances that they have never encountered before. But they do because they do recognise similarities. If Plato's realm of abstract objects exist then evidently animals can access it too.

[@sapereaude54]

Great lectures! Perfect way for a philosophobe to get started.

[@gda295]

v good enjoyable lectures. Plato. But how is a colour a form? but if i say idea instead of FORM, then i can u/stand ...or as you said y/self, "resemblance" better / best way to go....[since idea means form in greek].....v. helpful but we are no closer to finding these special forms.

[@chain173]

I saw Ric Flair at a traffic light one time.

[@charlesgodwin2191]

One father + one mother can = many children. One 0 + one 0 still = 0. Abstractions, concepts are idealizations of types and kinds of the perceptable, reduced to it' s most generalized, abstract, geometric idealized representation or principle . Concepts are mental objects, products. The #2 is an idealization of relationship as continuum and twoness as the poles of the continuum. Male and female are the poles of the continuum of humanity. What all things share in common is that they are all that which is. Beauty is a quality of the perception of Wholeness, an interpretation. Thus beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The pipe painting reveals how often we replace concept for actual perception. This keeps us stuck in imagination and memory, future and past, thus missing out on the magic of the present moment, which is a spontaneous emerging and unfolding of life. All relatives are extensions of the One, the Absolute.

[@hyperduality2838]

Commonality = Duality. Absolute is dual to relative, objective is dual to subjective. Thesis is dual to anti-thesis -- the time independent or generalized Hegelian dialectic. Noumenal (rational, analytic) is dual to phenomenal (empirical, synthetic) -- Immanuel Kant. Deduction (a priori, before measurement) is dual to induction (a posteriori, after measurement). Hume's fork:- Absolute truth is dual to relative truth, 'The relation of ideas' is dual to 'the matter of facts'. Hegel's cat:- Alive (thesis, being) is dual to not alive (anti-thesis, non being) -- Schrodinger's cat. Male (thesis) is dual to female (anti-thesis) creates or results in children (synthesis). Synthesis or birth, life, children are by-products of the man, woman duality! Syntropy (commonality) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics. The conservation of duality is the 5th law of thermodynamics, energy is duality, duality is energy. Potential energy is dual to kinetic energy. Energy is dual to mass -- Einstein. Gravitation is equivalent or dual to acceleration -- Einstein's happiest thought. Science wins through consensus. Consensus = mutual agreement or objective democracy (commonality). "Philosophy is dead" -- Stephen Hawkings. Is it? Questions are dual to answers.

[@MrBrennanmoriarty]

I like to Edit this...with potent../..complementary redo. I look for the launch ramp (above) and look down at the slow.mo recon-its-nice

[@jeanbordes8241]

Remarkable but don't be afraid of speaking very slowly when you explain Plato or any other great mind. Friendly yours. J. B.

[@hyperduality2838]

Commonality = Duality or objective democracy! In physics mutual information = common information or syntropy. Syntropy is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics. Thesis is dual to anti-thesis -- the time independent Hegelian dialectic.

[@Lavl-dq2tk]

physical objects change, and therefore you can't "know" anything physical. but immaterial things, such as 2+2=4 can not change, and therefore are facts, because knowledge requires certainty. but plato believes this to be false because santa claus does not exist, although we still know certain characteristics of him, but they aren't real; the forms are the non-physical objects that are precisely why we view for example a tree as a tree and a chair as a chair. they need to have an "essence" that they all have in common that makes us know why they're that object. for example, things that are beautiful must have a characteristic that all beautiful things have in common. so there would need to be a "perfect" beautiful; "the divided line" is a theory that shows that epistemology is how we perceive the world, while metaphysics is the world for how it actually is. in order to view the world how it actually is you need to use logic; in the allegory of the cave, the sun (metaphor of the sun) is a metaphor for reasoning and logic, because you see things for how they really are as you come outside of the cave and the sun shines on these things, rather than inside the cave where you merely saw fake replications of these objects; the line between the cave and the outside world represents the line between epistemology and the metaphysical; it's also a metaphor for education that the people in the cave are rescued because Plato believes the education should be teaching students the right way to think, but not teaching them directly what to think; it's also a metaphor that the person has a hard time escaping the rocky cave; it's also a metaphor that the person that has escaped the cave goes back into the cave to free another slave;

[@mynamesvlad]

I bet you I'd win in chess if we played haha

[@Meankeen]

Would you please NOT be on the screen, as you are with all your other videos? The audio is bad and it is annoying seeing you walking back and forth. Thanks for uploading though!

[@humblejumpify]

Great lesson Brown...I'm glad there are no Jehovah Witnesses to disrupt you.

[@jacobb.2057]

Wym santas not real🫠

[@torosalvajebcn]

Ugly Betty is more beautiful then Scarlett johanson....Scarlett Johanson looks like a cheap 4 letters word, but Betty is witty, funny, and quite hot after a make-up.