Carl Sagan - Pythagoras and Plato
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Uploaded by thenoblelie on Jan 23, 2010
From Carl Sagan's COSMOS, Episode 7, "The Backbone of Night."
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why don't we have a philosopher king/president
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If the book convinced you, Faro0485, of that - I guess I should personally apologize to the undergrads that I have taught the Republic to. Do you think the president of the university will give them their tuition back if he reads the chapter on Kabbalah? Or does he have to read the bigger story about the Illuminati also?
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@cirqueducarre Plato hated women. He wanted them to be men. And he wanted to take babies away from parents. Refer to the book Terrorism and the Illuminati: A Three Thousand Year History by David Livingstone, refer to the chapter on Kabbalah
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This video paints an amazingly superficial, and totally distorted picture of Plato.
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@PixelPlox see platos "sophists" that's why.
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Plato and Aristotle were the seminal thinkers of political thought. We would have no democracy if not for them.
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@daveinlv1 There were experiments done by Greeks in Alexandria, many decades after Plato and Aristotle were dead.
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@LASALLIONSTALLION Agreed. Plato was not a scientist, but he didn't hate the physical world in the way Sagan describes it.
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This video lies. Plato opened up a school, the Academy, and taught all who came, so long as they knew mathematics. Plato didn't sequester knowledge away in a cave. Sagan is simply offended at the idea of perfection itself, because he lacks the imagination to see it.
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@daveinlv1 "No experimentation was done till Kepler, 20 centuries later"
This is completely false.
"Aristotle may have done a lot for science but most don't consider him a "father" of science"
Fine. But some do. I mean, his work in biology was so influential it wasn't superseded for two millennia. He basically invented the discipline. This little narrative that Plato stopped people from experimenting until Kepler came along is incredibly stupid and demonstrably false.
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rfengr 1 year ago 16
Why doesn't humanity elect great thinkers like Carl Sagan to the highest positions of authority, instead of corrupt closed minded fools. We're squandering our great potential as a species.
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