Miles Burnyeat on Plato: Section 3

[DobroHounddog]

Nonsense...SOcrates doesn't say practice being dead....but practice dying.....note how this completely undermines Burnyeats reading of the theory of the forms, metempsychosis, etc.

[fourplusseven]

@DobroHounddog Hmm, well in the "Phaedo" he does say that philosophers' aim is "to live as nearly as they can in a state of death". I think the good professor knows his shiznit, and has a valid take -- although not the only possible one of course.

What interests me is how this develops into Platonism, Plotinus and Proclus etc., who obviously would not have agreed with Burnyeat!. Maybe there's a vid on that somewhere in this great channel.

[redetrigan]

There's something funny and delightful about the way Burnyeat says "they're so alive."

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[singedgreen]

haha i see what you mean , i think its because its the first time he shows any emotion and theres scorn in his voice as though he's talking about the most obvious of things!

[RightCitizen]

Finally got clear the theory of forms... No one explains it correctly.

[getsemanimarquez]

i know what you mean, textbooks over explains it and it looses its meaning. Burnyeat did a great job, straight to the point.