The Ancients: Plato

A lecture delivered by Wesley Cecil PhD. at Peninsula College exploring the work and influence of Plato.

[@abetterhandle]

Really appreciate you putting these online for free! Recently found this chanel a month ago and became an instant subscriber!

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Just a guy with a KZbin chanel yeah man Wes Cecil makes good shit!

[@cheri238]

Professor Wes Cecil, I absolutely without hesitation enjoy your Lectures on philosophy. I read voraciously since a small child. Happily the stars lead me here . Why would not anyone not love philosophy? Wow! It simmers with light over and over again. Eternally grateful I am to you. Thank you, sir with all of my heart ❤️ 💙 💜 💖

[@kylefcb1]

Finished the apology yesterday. Perfect timing. Thanks Wes!

[@TAXXPAYERMONEY]

You're amazing at your job Wes, I've really been enjoying these.

[@garretttedeman]

Great talk & summarization of a whole variety of concepts. Thanks so much for sharing!

[@aidan738]

After years of studying Plato I have scarcely found such excellent explanations as this one. Thank you.

[@matthafer2415]

Such refreshingly plain language. Detailed and descriptive without being unnecessarily technical or complicated such a great channel

[@OMiskell]

Thank you for recording and sharing your knowledge.

[@gracefitzgerald2227]

I love this, thank you so much for putting it up. I even listen to the seminars you make that I have no concept about. However I alaways feel slightly smarted for it.

[@rosesandsongs21]

Captivating, thank you.

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_The beauty of schools_ We moved often when I was a kid... I never thought architectural beauty was deeply important, but, I just realized that the school in which I performed best and was most studious was in fact the most beautiful school I went to. There was a nice huge meaningful mosaic on one of the outside walls : art! My school after that one was in the basement of an old church with dull cardboard walls and water on the floors at times. My grades went down the drain there.

[@Jotun184]

Love this. Clear and concise explanation of the core of what he was about (so I can pretend to be more well read than I am hehe)

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[@spacey_jones]

Really happy to have found your channel. Thank you 🙏

[@sc4v3ng3r]

I remember listening a podcast in wich Wes said he gave up coffee as an experiment, wich turned out to be one of the most positive thing he did. Sounds like he had a relapse since then.

[@JojenReed]

Legal addictions are the hardest kind

[@alexandercle]

Thank you, my most noble friend, great job. altc

[@JimmyPlato1]

I love this lecture of the greatest Philosopher of all-time: PLATO

[@TTmysTT]

When a interviewer asked plato "how does it feel like being the greatest Philosopher of our time" he said "I dont know you should probably ask socrates"

[@JimmyPlato1]

@@TTmysTT Very interesting.... Socrates was indeed Plato's master, and he taught Plato how to be relentlessly inquisitive about open minded questioning on how to come to conceptions that represent authentic truths within Truth Itself.

[@TTmysTT]

I'm really new to philosophy in general but seems to me that Plato really idolized Socrates@@JimmyPlato1.(also didn't expect you to reply you left this comment 5 years ago )

[@tracyburck7780]

Interesting overview. Thank U

[@alan2here]

The platonic sphere is real, a specific physical sphere is arbitrary. Absolutely :)

[@VVeltanschauung187]

It was excusable to be a nominalist (the believer of psychological archetypes existing in our brain, and not outside of ourselves) centuries ago maybe, but not now. Now, it is a sign of mathematical illiteracy. The developments in complex analysis and fractal geometry leaves no doubt that Plato was right

[@bob1881]

14:30 Beauty For ancient Greeks Beauty also means true, just, or noble. Also healthy and inspiring. 16:00 Including beauty in your life should inspire you to be a better human being. Ugliness damages us at the most fundamental level. 16:15 You need inspiration, divine inspiration, as it turns out, from beautiful objects to raise you above your Baseness. 17:05 if you have something that is so beautiful and so inspirational, imagine how great you would be.

[@LoudPaintings]

Please do one on Chuang Tzu

[@michaelwu7678]

Hey Wes don’t you mean “Ancients”?

[@gg3675]

Hey Wes, if you read these you'll be very interested to know that further arguments for equality between men and women came soon after Plato! Zeno (the Stoic) wrote his own Republic in response to Plato whom he overwhelmingly disagreed with, but they agreed on this issue. Apparently he even argued that gendered clothing should be abandoned. Unfortunately the content of this work is now fragmentary, but because of the later popularity of Stoicism we're lucky enough to know something about it.

[@user-tz8xl2kf6q]

As I understand it, the word logos is, the speech, the talking with logic, with reason... Someone who is talking with logic, with mind, who have a start and an end on his actions and his thoughts. Who have a plan from the start to the end. Someone who knows what he is doing. You can't defined the word logos in English, in one word. I think.

[@ethanjames1316]

This is great! You should do Plotinus!

[@chrisyu7318]

Life is educating your self better person, wiser, Beauty. Wisdom is delightful to do something good

[@benquinney2]

Good conversation

[@loveofinquiry3839]

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[@thehamvskoopa343]

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[@KarlW1979]

I hope Aristotle is coming up soon.

[@nickburgett2355]

Karl Wenn already is

[@KarlW1979]

Looking through his videos and not seeing it. Can you share a link?

[@danielnunez3206]

Whats the word, kayon?

[@navyforeveryoungjean-phili5940]

At around 34:52 he says that plato’s theory about not allowing people freedom until they’re Able to overcome their base passions to some extinct may be accurate, and the audience/ students laugh. I’m so annoyed that they laughed and didn’t understand his point. Smh.

[@Laocoon283]

You misunderstand; they understood the point and then laughed. It's an absurd idea lol.

[@peterdollins3610]

The Paratheon held the treasury for Athens when Athens became an Empire.

[@KeithMakank3]

Did he make that opening emphasis on "breadth" because he supports the false translation of his name?

[@adammorait7429]

does logos really means conversation ? this is what I found on internet A principle originating in classical Greek thought which refers to a universal divine reason, immanent in nature, yet transcending all oppositions and imperfections in the cosmos and humanity. An eternal and unchanging truth present from the time of creation, available to every individual who seeks it

[@Laocoon283]

I was looking for this comment. He literally lied about the meaning of that word lol.

[@a.n.c.australia]

1:40 to 1:45 I did not know that. Implications. And then, Meta-Implications. Run it.

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[@lambd01d]

There are no wrong chords. The ancient Greeks didn't have the benefit of jazz which has loads of complex dissonant chords that somehow work..

[@kevint876]

10:00

[@meyeseyes3578]

But I thought Plato was for me to become an insufferable ass? Your lecture makes me feel as though I already had been and blamed it all on him :( how dare I.

[@cloudage2956]

31:26 Excess of [excessive?] liberty.... what liberty is for...

[@Laocoon283]

Trust me, the last thing anyone wants is pure freedom.

[@benquinney2]

Rule of law

[@jordanlindo9703]

William Tyndale translated the Bible into it's modern English. He was a brilliant linguist and died for his work. Logos means the WORD. It is means GOD."And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." Gen.1:3

[@lisadioguardi5742]

There were lengthy discussions in the fourth century over the translation, mostly because it didn't translate into a single Latin word. There were other Greek words that could also have meant "word", and even today logos can be translated into a lot of English words depending on the context. Especially from ancient languages, the meaning of some words require lengthy descriptions that don't read smoothly because we don't have a real equivalent. The debate existed long before Erasmus, and it was the absence of the trinity in 1 John that was challenged by theologians.

[@jordanlindo9703]

The Alexandrian translation was the foundation of the Vulgate which was corrupted from the beginning. The Textus Receptus was the true text that corresponded with the Tanakh. There is no debate if you believe scripture, which text is correct.

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Thank you!

[@dirkgonthier101]

Jordan Lindo: Yawn...

[@PaulMcMinotaur]

32:36

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[@walterneta3679]

The US is a republic and not a democracy. There is a difference and knowing the difference helps understand how the federal government should function.

[@Laocoon283]

More like an oligarchy these days tbh

[@alan2here]

Soul's don't have sexes, but they roll around with 4 arms and 4 legs and 2 mouths making ungodly levels of noise… Oh wait :)

[@Laocoon283]

You have no idea what your talking about with the word λογος. The word has a lot of different definitions. It can mean word, speech, tale, story, reckoning, account, proportion, reason, rationality etc etc. IT DOES NOT JUST SIMPLY MEAN CONVERSATION. The idea doesn't even make sense cause just who do you think god is having a conversation with? Lol

[@Templarswordxx7]

bias af. bit of a deterrent. otherwise, fairly good.

[@erisdiscord1618]

SJWs need to listen to this.

[@NeonNights80]

Which ones?