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  • I wish he finished his book about atlantis.

  • thanks a lot for the upload!

  • thanks this helps me greatly on my school report on Plato

  • @zupergozer Dont overlook the negative aspects of Plato. His influence was huge but not all of it good. The Republic is a blueprint for totalitarianism - read Karl Popper (the Open Society and its Enemies). The Republic was a dystopia not a utipia. Plato was indifferent to science to the point of hostility. Unlike Aristotle, Plato believed that there was no value in studying nature.

  • @mikelheron20 thanks for sharing that friend

  • @zupergozer Youre welcome. Good luck with your report.

  • Life must be lived as play

  • did Plato have children or ever got married?

  • Plato is a nickname?! daaangg..

  • @PlatonicSociety Plato belived in 4 leves of existence, where the highest form was the world of idea's, seaconf the level of math and numbers, third the real world we live in, and forth the level of art,(wich he despised) I dont know about god, but he wrote aboute a creature he called The Demiurge, wich came to mean something like "creator" (The Demiurg is belived to be an evil demond of some kind..?)

  • The greatest most contradictory philosopher ever; shrouded with hypocrisy.

  • I watching this in R.E its is so fucking shit .....

  • One of the greatest men that ever lived.

  • he likes turdle's!

  • Is this the dude from Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure?

  • @moontooth no, thats socrates in the movie, the teacher OF plato

  • @jeffborr77 yeah I really wished they emphasised the major impact of Socrates and how his death inspired plato.... but whateva

  • @MochizMuM Whoa' you are more right about that than you might imagine. Supposedly Socrates never wrote anything down, do you think that a move about their relationship would be extremely pertinent within how religious faith and worship and the arguments over god are so redundant when philosophers have exemplified so much going all the way back to Hesoid and Homer 800bc. Have you ever read Meno written by Plato. or his epistle seven? It all has everything to do with Intrinsic Anthropology'

  • @DrFruedienslip I think i've read a little of the Meno but that was a while back.... for a lack of anything to say ..I will check it all out lol....

  • thank you!

  • Quick Tip: Reverse Alphabetical order - Socrates taught Plato who taught Aristotle. Not much to do with the video but this helps me remember.

  • Plato is my inspiration.

    I am really happy that I get in touch with his work after all these years..

  • cameron youd likes plato

  • Thumbs up if Skrillex sent you here! ;)

  • No, Socrates is the Father of Western Philosophy.

    

  • @Ph83niX I would think that too because Plato's writings are dialogues involving socrates. Hence socrates being the source of platonic idealism. Was Plato just the mediator?

  • @07Aristotle Exactly. Plato, as said in the video, was Socrates' student/follower. Most of his ideas were originally Socrates' ideas. In fact, all of the sayings etc of Socrates can be found in Plato's books. Of course Plato added some ideas of his as well.

  • @Marinemauro Socrates believed that written words could not reply to someone's questions. So,Plato actually wrote down everything his teacher taught him. But he took a step further by both adding new ideas and using litterature in his scripts. :)

  • @Ph83niX Why? Because he taught Plato? Doesn't really make him so

  • Aristotle is way more realistic than plato

  • @americanliberal09 Aristotle was more of a naturalist than Plato.

  • @07Aristotle hmm i know but plato ideas in politic is more of utopia

  • @americanliberal09 Aristotle attended Plato's school (the academy) and was one of the brightest students. I think he later founded his own school as well.

  • @Marinemauro yeap i know that for sure, plato is o'k but his republic is little off for me

  • @Marinemauro yes he did :)

  • @americanliberal09 To an extent. Aristotle's beliefs about spontaneous generation and many apparently true things were very false, but they appeared more realistic on the surface. Plato is a very deep, profound thinker, far more so than empiricists like Sagan have the courage to realize.

  • @Nonamearisto good point right their but his political views throw me off a little bit in his rrepublic

  • Whats wrong with black horses?

  • plato never said anything that I didnt think first.

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  • Plato is the Father of Philosophy

  • @armen07aa doubt it

  • @armen07 There is no father of philosophy' it has been transcended back before homer' there is no philosophy' what does the word represent' it implies ones manner of living

  • @armen07aa no

  • @Jimlead ..no, a metaphor is using one thing in order to demonstrate another (to use Frost' s definition), it's not emblishment, it's simply rephrasing. Well, perhaps in that aspect you're right, but it was an obscene metaphor which just seems obscure and rather pointless.

  • @Jimlead *metaphor

    and that's an incredibly obscure and difficult to assertain metaphor, the stars definately can move you. how's that taken as me taken things for granted...?

  • @Jimlead i believe strongly in positive reinforcement, but you sit infront of me and move a house along a bit with just your will, then move on to stars.

    you can't fuck with physics.

  • @Jimlead move stars?! i was with you for a bit, but you try fucking with physics.

    have a go.

  • I hope you goes have more footage at the encyclopedia channel.

  • the art of retoric...the gorgious..is the argument...

  • the art of the good....

  • Platon

  • Plato was the 1st to design a utopia?!?

  • @Copper4head nah, he came up with a kind of framework..thomas more coined the term in his book Utopia

  • very helpful for my project

  • Plato (he was called Platon) was in love with Dion as a young man. They were lovers and very happy together. - Socrates was not a man who existed in real life. -Philosophy was part of every day life at the time. - Platon enjoyed teaching his students who were of different ages but similar ability and very keen to learn. The school were Platon was teaching was a building on a hill and the teaching took place outside under olive trees. People were happy and free and had time to discuss philosopy.

  • 17 people who disliked this are clearly delusional

  • fuck! this is my homework by I understand fuckin nothing of this crap!!

  • @splatt000 so, you think this video was hard to understand? .......

  • Plato hasn't seen jb

  • i just started The Republic, and it seems to be a good read.

  • @urbandenizen

    Even i thought so when I started to read it. The conversation with Thrasymachus is brilliant, but then Socrates just keeps talking without anyone saying anything but asserting what Socrates says, but never objecting it. Also, what I don't like about his ideal State is the censorship and totalitarianism, his abolition of our idea of what we call family and property and class stratification. But the allegory of cave is the only thing that stands true today.

  • This guy never existed. All of the greek philosophers of the bc era are nothing more that european creations. Europe didnt even have an alphabet until after alexanders arrival in egypt. 317 AD not b.c. ( Another lie told ). So is there was no form of writing how could you document the names of these b.c. philosophers and their writings. The simple answer is LIE. Its a lie. Dont be blind people do the research.

  • @spyro519 So that is all lies but you are telling the truth? I was not alive at those times so I cannot say what is true or not, but this is the field of philosophy some would make the argument that you do not exist and others may believe them does that make them right? Do you truly exist my friend? If your answer is yes then how could I then "Know" for sure? I believe most of the history i have learned is true on a grand sense but in the minor details who can say for sure.

  • @spyro519 Also you claim europe had no alphabet and therfore no written language before 317 AD. From what I have heard architecture requires writing when dealing with exact mesurements. From what I believe Rome,Greece, north africa, much of western europe, egypt, the levant and china along with others had sophisticated architecture before 317 AD. If we are so blind my friend then enlighten us. How cruel of you to claim our beliefs as lies and then give us no direction to find the truth.

  • @XXGDUBSXX I havent been on in a while but let me first first correct myself before I get to you. I was reading my notes wrong it actually was BC. Im not here to challenge what you believe, Im only giving facts out. Alot of the world is caught up in western philisophy AKA History AKA His Story. There is even an article on theonion.com in which some european scholars admit that there werent any real records of the ancient western world so they created some. Pictures, documents etc

  • @spyro519 the onion? isnt that a parody news station?

  • @XXGDUBSXX I dont know what it is. I know what these guys are saying. Ask them if they are a parody. These are the scholars that help start this information.

  • @spyro519 It's a comedy network there information isnt .legitimate.

  • @spyro519 Have any evidence of this?

  • @spyro519 your a malaka ther was an alphabet in greece ( Hellas) long befor Alexander the great he just spread it round the word have you herd of linear b its from aproximatly 4500 years old look it up and you tell people to ejecate them selves i think yoy should take your own advise moron

  • @ptcashdirect Alexander was a glorified barbarian. They reason why gets so much praised from western scholars is because it was his mission that eventually led to europeans coming across sacred knowledge of africa, civilization, and the domination of the world today through many facets. The greeks were given an alphabet based on the phonetic one the egyptians used that was incorporated into the language they spoke. Meaning that they applied the egyptian phonetic to their language. Research lol

  • @spyro519 the Greeks go their language from the Phonecians you moron

  • @spyro519 wait..you're claiming that the *roman* alphabet that we use today wasn't created by the romans, it was created by A the Great? why would this be a lie?! also, the majority of greek history was oral, which is why we've lost so much of their work.

    The romans created the alphabet and were from italy, in europe, where did you get this bullshit from?!

  • @spyro519 also, theonion is a satirical news network that you took to be real..that's hilarious.

    and seriously, don't trust wikipida. the lives' of these philosophers is well documented.

  • who has dr fjed lol

  • Awesome video! Thank you for sharing! I am going to favorite this video so others can view your video on our channel.

  • pineappels are like food, you can eat it

  • I'm currenyly in philosophy class.. I decided to search this randomly because I was bored.. But this is actually quite interesting, thanks : )

  • i like turtlez

  • @tonydanger89 Brilliant,Plato reincarnated.Could it be?

  • Plato sounds a lot like an INTP.

  • Seinfeld's ancestor!

  • Plato: the spiritual antecedent of all future tyrants

    Plato's philosophy: the metaphysical adumbration for future tyrannies

    Plato's Republic: the schematic for future despotic states

    Plato was an elitist, a statist, a collectivist, a chauvinist, a hedonist, an imperialist. The prototype of human misery incarnate.

  • @Hapafull What a crock! Keep drinking that Leo Strauss cool-aid. I took as my senior seminar in philosophy Plato's 'Republic.' Wonderful book!

    Down with all your prior statements! Allow me to quote G.K Chesterton, whom one could denote as a Platonist..."I may, it is true, twist orthodoxy so as to partly justify a tyrant. But I can easily make up a German philosophy to justify him entirely." A hedonist? Have you ever read Republic? Gorgias?

  • A man's moral pontifications are often in contradiction with his actual conduct and lifestyle. Plato was a member of the privileged citizenry of the polis, the ultra-elite minority (aristocracy), who scorned trade and labor as ignoble, all the while living off of the product of slaves and commercial taxes. One of the reasons for supporting this hierarchical system was because it afforded him the leisure time to pursue his interests. He lived a life of self-gratification and pleasure (hedonist).

  • @Hapafull So are you claiming that tyrannies, despots, and imperialist did not exist until after platos work was written? I could also blame the crime of murder on the gun but the sword and stone have taken many lives before that. But even that would only be similiar if plato indeed does inspire men to evil which i believe he does not.

  • Nowhere did I say that he inspires men to commit evil acts. I said he was the spiritual antecedent, which metaphorically means that he shares with despots a similar set of premises that tries to justify Statism. To give one example; the idea that a "society" is something real and tangible. "Society" is not a concrete object. One doesn’t go to a party and see the group of people there as a single physical form, they simply see individual people mingling.

    cont.

  • @Hapafull Your interpretation of the way Plato lived made me believe that you believed he was living an unjust life, a hyprocrite that criticises a system that benefits himself( feel free correct me if that is not what you meant). Yes i see that men are shown by plato to be servents of the society and i also agree that the idea of society is a concept and not a thing to be served but i believe if he talks of these men serving the state he means it in the way of he serve's his fellow men in th-

  • cont.

    Keeping this in mind, we can now view society as an abstract concept, an aggregate notion of human interaction, and when this is the accepted view the individual is recognized as the fundamental unit.

    This definition may seem obvious, but you’d be surprised how often biases and prejudices can lead people to defy it; and what follows is the establishment of society as the fundamental unit. The individual is no longer viewed as the unit, but rather its servile agent.

  • cont.

    Which begs the question: how can someone be a servant to something that is immaterial and has no will? The State will decide the will, and with 'wise men' (philosopher-kings) to decide what is good for the ignorant lower classes. What is ‘good’ for society will become the ethical standard, which at this point in development "society" is simply a surrogate for "State".

    It's ideas like these that I view as Statist and elitist to the core.

  • cont.

    Also, keep in mind that I'm not some Aristotle proponent who wants to bash Plato. Aristotle was far from an individual rights activist, and supported the aristocracy as a member.

    Also, I respect Plato and Aristotle immensely. Their contributions to philosophy and science are invaluable. It's just a shame that they lived in a matrix of oligarchies and despots. Living in a bubble tends to skew logical consistency and they often followed bias and prejudice in matters of politics.

  • @Hapafull -e sense of what is written in the "Republic" as man must eat so there must be people that hunt or gather food, man gets sick so there must be doctors, and men have souls so there must be a scholars devoted to such matters. Can any man do these things? For the most part yes bet when a man has a specific task he becomes better and more sophistocated with it making him a better doctor etc. Also our biology as apes demands us to look for leadership and guidance and this is where we need-

  • @Hapafull men (or women) to lead us through travel, famine, war, times of wealth and golden ages but then you have generally two kinds of men that lead, Men who want to lead( for fame, power,women and wealth) and men who believe they must for fear (not in a terms of cowardice but in a context of they believe he is an unjust man) of having someon worse than them lead and of the latter it would be preferable to have a man with an open mind a man of reoson and of wisdom who would make the best -

  • @Hapafull leaders, platos idea of a philospher king where the wise rule, and this I believe is where the concept of o f him inspiring tyranny comes from but the philosopher king serves justly and Socrates said justice is the interest of the weak( again by weak i mean the common man,worker,soldier etc. not physically weak) So it would be the leaders duty to serve his people but tyrannies only serve themselves and aristocracies there immediate friends and relatives so when you say he influences -

  • -these despots i disagree as i would compare it to medieval times when royalty told there followers they followed the word of christ and god when in many occasion they commited adultery ,murder, were greedy , unmerciful to the poor and to there enemies in war, so would it be fair to say that because they claimed to follow these rules of god, they did?, or if they didnt and men knew of there foul deeds that they would place blame on the bible because the king had claim to be inspired by it?

  • @Hapafull You write "Living in a bubble tends to skew logical consistency and they often followed bias and prejudice in matters of politics."

    Watch out for the bubble you are in, as well.

  • @ChevyChevelleSS

    Hey good job putting up an argument... oh wait.

  • @Hapafull Haha good one...oh wait. Just what I like to do, argue over the internet. You have good points of course, but when I read Plato's work, I don't think you are correct. The Justice in 'Republic' for the common man who cannot get squelched under the tyrant, the 'Form of the Good' in which the philosopher-king knows Good. Excellent stuff. You have to remember that Plato lived under The Thirty Tyrants and his writing reflects this. He opposed tyranny. The tyrannical man--and tyranny as a

  • @ChevyChevelleSS political structure--is the worst (just below democracy). If he so vehemently opposed tyranny it seems odd to accuse him so blatantly of being THE precursor to it. But of course, I'm open to correction--Plato is one of my favorite philosophers for other reasons. I'll never forget my professor (a Plato and Rousseau scholar) defending Plato in class nonstop!

  • thanks for the upload

  • thanks!~

  • Wonder if they no what color his underpants were.

  • Plato more like pluto - load a crap.

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  • Plato's theory of forms is the precursor to existentialism, if you ask me.

  • I wonder. Are females just funny shaped males or are they fundamentally different creatures?

  • females hate males because in the womb both sexes have the same starter kit until when it falls away from the females due to weakness which is the reason behind "penis envy" among females. The great genius Plato had knowledge of this ages before modern medical science confirmed it. Plato theorized that there was nothing mysterious about females since they all fall into the category of "castrated males".

  • @MuchAdmiredEditor

    To Plato, the females of a kind are just physically weaker versions of males... he compares the women of his time as being the society's left hand; very able to function, but is unfortunatly left untrained.

    He had been a very rare important man to consider the words of a woman 2,5k years before our society recognized it.

  • @MuchAdmiredEditor ..sadly..your knowledge is somewhat skewed..all life begins as female..in males the ovaries drop down to form testicles

  • @MATTDUNCAN1 Sorry, but your knowledge, or ,perhaps better termed, assumption, is somewhat skewed and, at best, over-simplistic. All life begins the same, neither male or female. The ovaries and the testes are a development of the gonads. The gonads are formed from the gonadal ridge which, at first appearance, is the same in both sexes.

  • @SalutationToTheDawn ;;please refer to medical references on pre natal sex development..my assumption is based on these..so there is no need for your apology

  • @MuchAdmiredEditor Penis envy. So stupid. I can honestly say I have never once envied the penis nor desired to carry such a load around either.

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  • Atlantis is discussed in the Timaeus not the Crito dialogue.

  • "The philosophy of Plato changed the old picture of the world. His idea's about the beginnings of the world and bout immortality of the soul became A MODEL for the Christian religion" ???

    If THAT were true, then how come you don't read about him in the NT? Jesus never mentioned him once in the Gospels. In fact, Colossians 2:8 warn's us against such teachings.

  • yea like the christians that made up the book are going to talk about anyone but christ you fucken tardass.

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  • In fact, Colossians 2:8 warn's us against such teachings.

    Well, if I see that God shall be love and that love is good, therefore, shouldn't he be good?

    But the good is also good-willed? Then, if he wants the best, he also wants the best persons possible and if there is any chance we can act right, he would prefer it to us acting wrong...

    I do not see how in not using your head to judge what is right and what is wrong will ever make you better - it makes you a sheep and the Church needs sheep

  • That may be a nobel endeavor to believe that, BUT is that TRUE?

    Jesus said : "I AM the way, THE TRUTH, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."... He also said : "If ye continue in MY WORD, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall KNOW the TRUTH .."

    So, BY ALL MEANS, trust in your fellow man to use their head to "judge what is right and what is wrong" ... But what happens if (or when) that judgement contradicts Scripture, and/or disagrees with what Christ says in His WORD?

  • Didn't you heard that men wrote that book?

    It is that Church has elected the "suitable" parts and avoided the other ones. Trust free lines in the book of the corrupted minds about what a great men said three hundred years before they piled up these lines and decided what was right and what was false.

    If God is love and that he is good, how could you ever love or be good if not for him to be with you? If he doesn't acknowledge your effort as a testimony of your will, don't worry, he is not God.

  • "Your effort/will??" You're right, I don't worship that 'god', THAT is unscriptural. Even the Lords Prayer teaches that it is NOT 'OUR will' BUT "HIS WILL" be done in earth" (Matt.6:10) So,if you want to falsely believe that God did not protect/preserve his Pure Word (Ps 12:6-7) and believe it's not The Word of God but the words of corrupt men (1Thess 2:13) You are certainly free to believe that.. But you are wasting your time if you expect me to buy into that philosophical fruit.->(Gen 3:1-6)

  • If you have to remember one thing out of the whole Bible and christianism, it shall be that welcom are those who wish to be.

    That you pray or not; that you lie here or make a false step or pronounce the wrong wrong during a ceremony; that you try to be great or avoid sacrificing yourself; can all this make you able to lie at his face?

    And of all the thing he could have picked, didn't Jesus prefered this one:

    "Love you each other as I have loved you."

  • Certainly, you can behave like you are a wise man when you are actually an ignorant and preach this book as if you were suddenly blessed by such wisdom, when you rather do not know anything.

    It is that I do not see anyway why you would rather do what is worst over what is better; even if you consider it futile now, anyhow, aren't you expected to be as good of a man you can be?

    And, sir, it is greatly diminishing to call my words "beliefs".

  • And remember how Jesus answered to those speaking of the Sabbath; he told them that this day was made for men and not men for this day.

    The same way, I will answer you that your church has been made for men and not the other way around.

    What I so hardly fight is the arrogance and self-blindness and behaviour such as yours - it is not about the answer, but rather about you in front of your answer: you risk to hurt yourself and corrupt others by keepign your eyes closed.

  • I do not see how it is illogical to have faith in God's existance, nor how it is bad to read what Jesus had to say.

    It becomes illogical when you wave it as a proof of truth and pretend to wisdom while you are neither wise, nor knowledgeable in anyway.

    I am not any wiser than you, yet, I have the humility to admit the limit of my answers. I hope you at least understand how harmful such a behaviour is when you follow the wrong path and blindly follow it without thinking.

  • Follow the 'WRONG path'? The Bible teaches us to follow the narrow path->

    (Matthew 7:13-15)

    So, basically to are asking me to compromise my Scriptural convictions and fall into lock step and agree with what ever corrupt, nonsensical, evil ideology YOU may believe in .. Sorry, cant do that -> (Acts 5:29)

    And by the way ... as far as I know, this still is a free country.

  • Evil ideology? This is not an ideology, nor a belief either...

    This is public idea of philosophy? Philosophy means " the love of wisdom"; it is not an ideology, nor a way to think, nor a way to behave, nor a way to be; to be a philosophe means that you are thinking, period.

    What is a non sense is surely not to admit humbly my ignore whereas you seem so convince to be wise. Will you dare to clai mto be wise and not make trial of it? Or will you answer my questions if so I bring them to you?

  • Perhaps is it a free country, but you are surely corrupting minds if you claim to know what you don't and happen to teach what ought rather to be left untaught.

    So, may you suppose that Jesus spoke of truth and only of truth and that all this book as been writen carefully, only presenting truly and rightly the words and meaning of this man who spoke in knwoledge of such wisdom that he claims to have possessed. Is that what you assume, am I right?

  • "Means that you are thinking, period?"

    You can't be JUST "THINKING" while your thoughts are being electronically printed over this public forum and your hostile words are personally directed at God, His Word ... and myself.

    .

  • They are neither hostile, nor do are they directed at Gods. They are not directed at you in any mean manner, I'd rather be mean to leave you in your arrogance and ignorance.

    Anyhow, we are prone to err - you just as me. And this include each line, each thought, each link... But how to correct an error if we act blindly, if we do not reconsider our positions.

    You may think of me as an atheist or a scientist or that I follow an ideology, just as you - but I am not any of it.

  • That is of course, unless you are not a "real" person....Which is a distinct possibility. Have you ever heard of the term "bot?" I'm sure you have... and I'm sure technology by now is so advanced that there programs are designed so convincingly as to fool even the average person into believing that are talking to a human when all along they are really NOT! --> The ultimate deception.

  • I am not a trial put on your faith, I am not against anything except one: the lack of humility.

    Philosophy is not an ideology, it is not a way of thinking, it is not a perspective, it is not a view point like any other: this is the opposite of all this.

    It is the love of wisdom, it is searching the knowledge. You have to reconsider each thing and put them to trial in discussion - you do not advocate your case, but defend truth.

    This is not ideologic, it is simply being an humble man.

  • "You may think of me as an atheist or a scientist or that I follow an ideology, just as you - but I am not any of it. "

    I know, that's because what are is a deceived/deceiver ... and as long as a child of God's heart is right towards God none of what you have to say really shouldn't matter.

    "This is not ideologic, it is simply being an humble man"

    Only the Word of God truly defines "humility"--> Luke 18:13 (and any other word or concept for that matter) and not your "philosophy."

  • @GueorguiJoukov

    You can't be talking to a machine, unless you don't are one !

  • And I guess that he is to be take nas right on each word and is never mistaken for neither him, nor his Father, nor those who wrote, nor those who translated have made mistake?

    Then, if I state anything like:

    "Love your neighbors as I have loved you."

    It shall be our duty and it is the right path?

    And, I may also understand that it aims for the best or should I rather think of it as if God was wicked wished us the worst? It must aim for the best!

  • And it is impossible in any way that it is wrong?

    Nay it can't.

    So, when he says that we ought not to retaliate, this is also true? And in any cricumstance? it must.

    And, when he says the Sabbath is made for and not the inverse, it is also true?

    And I can say the same of every line that they are true and right?

  • But, if a man came to me and told me that his Father told him that the sky is green, I would be wuite surprised and would surely need more than claims.

    Like I said, his teachings must intend for the best and they are right and have reasons and caracteristics which makes them right? it must since we agree that what was right also intends for the best.

    You see, that even there, there are reasons behind lines which may make true or not- let's be humble, but respectuous.

  • The point is not to contradict everything and turn them down because they have been writen in a book, but rather to examine them and see if you can get out of it the sense of what is right and what is wrong.

    At your greatest surprise, by feats of logic I have shown many of his words to be right - but it wasn't my intension: my intension is to know and be a good man.

    And yes, even a logical man opposed to the use of bilbical quotess as justifications can happen to have faith in God.

  • lol. Plato mentions Atlantis in the "Timaeus" and the "Critias", NOT the "Crito" (as said at 5:28) ...

  • greece never lost its culture and identity. It was part of the Turkish/ottoman empire for many centuries after Rome, but it was a part of it not fully assimilated.

    There is a lot of mixing of genetics and ethnicity from Roman and Turkish days, but a fair percentage of the people can still be traced back to the classical age Greeks.

  • As with the video on Socrates, the Encyclopedia channel makes numerous errors. It is likely only a later apocyphal story that his name was originaly Aristocles. Certainly that was his grandfathers name, but there are numerous references to Plato as a proper name at that time. Nothing to seriously suggest the tenous idea that it was a nickname due to his wide shoulders.

  • Greetings from another Greek Platon...me:)

  • plato's theory of forms and the efficient cause of aristotle,,, relative?

  • يلعن ام الانجليزيين اللي تحتي مسويين ثقافه هم ووجيهم

  • Put down thy Aristotle and pick up thy Plato.

  • @ludachris475 LOL

  • Whatever you think, with out Plato noone would remember Socrates.

    Saying that, if there was no Socrates there would be no Plato to keep a record of what he did.

    Peace

  • All of you should be veryvery ashamed of yourselves. Open up your head fools !

  • Prognosis: Your organ of self-reflection has suffered a tragic infarct.

  • you know basspliff187 I find it ironic that you're watching a video regarding philosophy- often defined by open mindedness,skepticism and rejecting ignorance, and yet you're making a racist and ignorant statement yourself? Tsk Tsk:O

    oh and by the way, 187 is california code for murder,if your username is a reflection of yourself I guess that means you condone killing huh?

    :O

  • this guy is amazing, no seriously im high

  • what the fuck is this bullshit? i was looking for plato the rapper

  • Plato is a philosopher, he is many times more famous than this rapper you speak of. In fact, this rapper you mention has undoubtedly stolen the philosopher that I aforementioned. Tsk Tsk, I'm also guessing you're black, because you listen to rap and have a username that is suggestive of a profound hate for society. Now you have been burned.

  • im not black, im white, and i barely listen to any rap i mostly listen to metal cuz almost all rap is garbage and my favorite rapper (beast 1333) did a song with plato and i wanted to check out some of his other stuff. and why do you assume im black just because i have a username that expresses hatred for society? thats kind of racist. and btw if you like music you should checl out global resistance by beast 1333, just search it up on youtube

  • your a low life for that comment.. the numerous world hating emo children of this society cling to what type of music? rap?

  • *Basspliff187*

    Hey Spliff burner :)

    To be honest I find it hard to believe that anyone with a knowlege and understanding of Plato would so fastly jump to such conclusions based on what he wrote.

    The fact that the first thought that came into your head was to classify him by colour/race speaks for its self.

    Fair enough he didnt need to leave the comment he did an should have heard of Plato but your comment was by far worse.

    ...And even Socrates couldn't prove other wise :)

    Peace.

  • dude. i was totally kidding. I don't really articulate my speach like that unless im typifying the extremely rediculous. im really just trying to stir up drama, and see where it goes..i'm just bored on youtube so i talk nonsensical garbage. sorry didnt mean to offend..or did i?

    peace out my arian brother

  • Who cares? Write it in your notebook and see how you feel about it in the mourning.

  • You Philistine!

  • ok...