Classical Greek Philosophy: Socrates and Plato 

When Plato was asked by an interviewer how it felt to be the smartest Greek philosopher in the world he replied " I don't know you'll have to ask Socrates"

The greatest chain of teacher-pupil relationships in history. Socrates instructed Plato who instructed Aristotle who instructed Alexander the Great who instructed the world

Fan of Socrates: I LOVE YOU! Socrates: What is love? Fan: Very wise words! Socrates: What is wise?

Big fan of you diving into these philosophical videos. It's so good to ensure we all have at least a basic understanding of such important historical figures and their philosophies.

For those of you interested in philosophy, primary sources are very important in the learning process. The humanities are different from the stem fields, in that you don't need to read the Principia, to understand newtonian physics deeply; for the humanities, primary sources are a part of the process, the more you read them the better off you are. In this case, for example, there is a lot of detail omitted, and the socratic method is much richer than depicted here, if you read the dialogues, and while there may be some weird twists of logic now and then, on the whole, it is a wonderful and a beautiful artwork of reason, most of the problems in philosophy are contained in the platonic dialogues, and a lot of the solutions given are valid and cogent; of course, some more or less depending on your paradigm. The general method Socrates takes is a dialogical one, where the person who's in gestation will seek the truth, and try to give birth or light to it. While socrates is the midwife of this truth and will try to seek it out, avoiding all possible bouts of falsehood. In these sinotic and diaretic procedures, from the many to the one, and from the one to the many, you gain a more keen and lucid view of reality, key distinctions and many insights that come together into a more unified organic view of life. Very inspiring ethically, metaphisically and epistemologicaly. It is said that all of philosophy can summed up as footnotes to Plato, and that all began on account of Socrates.

Your approach to explaining complex concepts is brilliant. It makes everything so clear!

Wow, what an amazing video on Classical Greek Philosophy! Socrates and Plato have always been such fascinating figures to me. Their ideas and teachings continue to inspire and shape our understanding of the world today. Thank you for sharing this insightful and engaging video. I can't wait to delve deeper into their philosophies!

These guys were geniuses it’s crazy ahead of their time!

Love this series!

They say philosophy has to be more felt than be comprehended. And this made easy with your new series which are seeding basic understanding thoroughly. Excellent presentation and keep it coming Dave 👍:)

I hope Stoicism is getting a video

Nicely done!

Fun fact: Plato is the nickname given to Aristocles because of his physical broadness. That's right. The poor dude has us calling him thicc until the end of time.

amazing ! thanks, love this topic

This was brilliant thanks

I know you had nothing to do with this but I literally just did an exam on the two yesterday. Comunque adoro il tuo lavoro!

Great stuff! Would you be open to discussing radicalisation? Specifically what causes it, what radicalised people think and how to escape radicalising mindsets?

What you just said about Socrates' ethical theory was actually developed by Zoroaster, and likely influenced Socrates.

Can you please talk about the patristics and scholastism next video please? Im going to need that for my philosophy class

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Beautiful and very informative video. In your video two Philospher i.e Socrates and Plato statues in Acadmey entrance area but whereas is Aristotle statue located? Please let me know cuz we are going next month to Athens. Thanks & Regards

There once was a wise man named Dave Whose love for chemistry was all the rave He taught his students to seek the truth And to question everything they knew since youth With Socrates' spirit, he challenged the fake And Plato's wisdom, he sought to make He debunked the lies, he tore them down With knowledge as his sword and truth as his crown He blended the qualities of these great men Until he matched them, time and time again For like Socrates, he asked the hard questions And like Plato, he searched for true perceptions So let us raise a glass to Professor Dave Whose passion for knowledge will never fade For he is a true philosopher at heart And his teachings will always be a work of art.

I waited for a long time for this video.. idk out of nowhere I'm suddenly intrested in Greek philosophy

Professor Dave love your content and Tutorials I like to one thing what is your personal view on Buddhists believes and theories ?

I wonder if Socrates was an enlightened figure. I can't help but find parallels between him and the practices of Zen Buddhist masters.

It's not so much that Plato wrote the first written philosophy, it's that it was only shortly before his time that writing began to be used to record abstract ideas. We also have the first works of history from this period. Even then, works like plays, poems, and possibly dialogues like Plato's would have been primarily oral compositions, either recorded after the fact or written so as to be read out loud to others.

Aristotle defines Eudaemonia as the end of all things, living and non living, then he moves on to mention that the good is most likely a divine monotheistic being, characterized as the sun in Plato’s allegory of the cave. I’d like to know what you think of this Dave.

Good video, but the thing you forgot to mention about Plato was how he was the inventor of the plate.

It is amazing

Socrates did reductio ad absurdum, not appeal to extremes.

Oh, boy! I'm a BIG hole fan! Years ago, I saw a bit in the paper - apparently there were four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire. But I'll wager those were just a few of the holes -just the holes that turned out for the concert, or something. I've forgotten now. Anyway, I suspect there are many, many morel) holes than those. My car has holes. My mechanic adds fluids through those. My garden has holes. Moles made those holes. Or perhaps those who made the holes are voles. My shoes have holes. My head has holes. Collecting holes was one of my goals. I put my first hole in a bowl. But then, there was a hole in the bowl!Out the hole in the bowl my first hole had rolled! At the time, though, when I looked in the bowl, I thought my hole had been stolen. When I started school, I'd gathered hundreds of holes, & I'd learned a whole lot about holes, and I knew a way how to stow me a hole and a way how to stop it from rollin', or being stolen. Hold open one hole & stow all the holes in the hole that you're holdin'! Though my knowledge has not reached perfection, I affirm that this method really does work for even a whole hole collection!

4:50 Caption for the School of Athens: Plato: “Pull my finger”

Clipart-socrates' demented smile is somehow extremely funny to me.

Love you dave wish you were my teacher

Great video, missed a few points like socrates demon

Would it be fair to say that an "appeal to extremes" is akin to a "false dichotomy?" Interestingly, the word "dichotomy" comes from the Greek word, "dikhotomia," which means "to cut in two, apart."

Bertrand Russell does a great series on the history of western philosophy

Hey Dave I have a question that doesn't have to do with the video because the thought has been bothering me: Do lie detectors really work? I've heard people say they don't pick up on emotions but what else in the brain could they be picking up on and how would anyone know the difference between someone who's lying and someone who's stressed out cuz they're accused of something awful?

What does Socrates mean by(I know that I don't know)...?

@Professor Dave,, I think there is much less probability ot you reading this,, but a video explaining "why light speed is constant" And "what is actually time" And "what was before big bang" .... These types of explain from you is really wanted by me coz your explanation is the best.... And i am not still able to find satisfactory basic answers to this questions.. Most of the answers given are based on the theory itself.. Like why 1+2=3? Because 3-2=1 which is not a basic answer I guess.... Looking forward

I am here, Socrates, the Greek. I knew that you thought of me and I was attracted by your thought. If such spirit is in rapport with you or has a similar soul quality; the soul condition is the great medium of attraction. I have been with you before, and there is a rapport growing out of your soul qualities. I am now a believer in the Christian doctrine of the soul’s immortality, and in the teachings of Jesus as to the way to obtain the Divine Love of the Father, as you are, and, hence, our qualities of soul are similar. I am now a follower of the Master and believe in his Divine mission on earth, although he had not come to earth when I lived. After I became a spirit I realized my belief in the continuity of life after death, and lived in the spirit world a great many years after Jesus came before I learned and believed his larger truth of immortality. Of course, when I taught I had only a hope which was almost a certainty that I should continue to live through all eternity, but I had no other foundation for that belief than the deductions from my reasoning powers and the observations of the workings of nature. I had heard of the visitations of the spirits of the departed, but had never had any personal experiences in that direction, but I readily believed it to be true. My conviction of the truth of a future continuance was so strong that it amounted to a certainty, and hence when I died, I comforted Plato and my other friends and disciples, by telling them that they must not say that Socrates will die but rather that his body will die; his soul will live forever in fields Elysian. They believed me, and Plato afterwards enlarged on my belief. And Socrates did not die, but as soon as his breath left the body, which was not very painful even though the fatal hemlock did its work sure and quickly, he went into the spirit world a living entity, full of the happiness that the realizations of his beliefs gave him. My entrance into the spirit world was not a dark one, but full of light and happiness, for I was met by some of my disciples who had passed over before me and who had progressed very much in the intellectual development. I then thought that my place of reception was the heaven of good spirits, for there were good spirits to meet me and carry me to my home. I was then possessed of what I thought that I was in the home of the blessed; and I continued… Received 7/8/1915, new-birth.net

Watched all of it 8:55

Knowledge gained through dialogues then

Hey Dave I have recently looked at a lot of Graham Hancocks research and "documentaries" I feel that they are interesting and a bit more though out than flat earth however still very speculative and not really evidence based. Would you ever make a video about this?. He is known for his theory that 12,000 tyears ago an advanced civilisation was wiped out by a comet or meteor and are now only visible tghrough ancient megalithic sites, he also thinks the sphinx are 12,000 years old or something ike that - Thanks Max

As you talked about Socrates, I couldn't help noting numerous parallels between his story and another one that was written more than 400 years later. It's quite a coincidence...or maybe no coincidence at all...that the New Testament tells the story of an enlightened teacher who attracted a posse of disciples, sought to share his teachings with children, challenged the authority of those in power, and was eventually put on trial and executed as a heretic. Side Note: yesterday during a conversation I had with a friend who recently escaped an oppressive, authoritarian religion, I compared her journey to Plato's _Allegory of the Cave._ Upon finally seeing see the truth...and lies...she can't ever go back to believing what she did before.

"Just asking questions! Do your own research....as long as it agrees with my answers!!" Ancient Greek Philosophy

Honestly so hyped to go chill with the AI reincarnation of these bad boys in virtual reality in 20 years or so

Plato transformed his wise mentor's words "I know nothing" into the way of life we live today. Plato's philosophy is "YOU know nothing." They are polar opposite to one another.

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Socrates is my favorite philosopher no doubt 😉👌💯

The Immortal Words of Socrates: I drank what? :)

The work of Platon is called STATE [ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΑ] not Republic

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Homaging Majestic Zeus

can't believe socrates ripped off Operation Ivy

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Can You talk over each other in class

science lead to physics and that to Philosophy

If officers were commissioned by the president and recommended by congress and enlisted like us are slaves?

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Fusion bridge from ancient Greco Roman philosophy became modern Christian religion.

WOW! ...I instantly understood! .. This is literally a version of The Bible ...SAME CONCEPT &SAME CHARACTERS ... FASCINATING !!!

If there's one major thing that I agree on with both these (& other) philosophers, it's that *Ethics* (including *Philosophy, Logic & Reasoning, Epistomology, Axiology, Politics/Government, Law/Prosocial Behaviors, etc.)* should be a foundational course of study for _EVERYONE._ I'd absolutely want to see *Ethics* being taught alongside other core units like *Science, Mathematics* & *English* (or language & communication in general), from *Primary School* through to *High School (years 1-12),* with more narrowly defined aspects for University students (⊚). Note that there's a great deal of overlap with these (& other) subjects, too: ~ *Logic & Mathematics,* ~ *Natural Philosophy & Science,* ~ *Rhetoric & Language,* ~ *Aesthetics & Art.* So by educating in one unit we may assist in the integration of knowledge towards mastery of another. This isn't even particularly revolutionary, with similar *Ethical* teachings commonplace in many other cultures worldwide. (including many of the *European* countries which consistently score in the top ten best public educational systems.) ~ ~ ~ From my perspective, our current society has been far too influenced (even corrupted) by the endlessly malleable pseudo-ethics of religions - especially *Christianity* (with Prosperity Gospel completely inverting the core "Christian" values of Humility, Charity & Altruism!) - leading to profoundly unethical behavior vitually being an essential trait for modern leadership. Politicians, CEOs, Lobbyists (etc.) are consistantly responsible for deeply repugnant & immoral behaviour - ranging from blatant deceit, to placing "profit" far above human lives - often without social pushback, let alone consequences! [ nb: There have been psychological evaluations performed on business entities (given all the privileges of legal "personhood" / none of the responsibilities) like corporations - which go to demonstrate how twisted the enterprise has become. "Sociopathic" & "Psychopathic" behaviors are rewarded, while "Empathetic" & "Altruistic" behaviors are openly denigrated - the very opposite of what we should expect in a rational society... ] ⊚ - Which we already do at the University level: *Scientific Ethics ~ Biologist,* *Legal Ethics ~ Lawyer,* *Business Ethics ~ Business person,* *Medical Ethics ~ Doctor/Nurse/Therapist*

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Egyptians were the teachers of the Greeks.

So he is jesus then?

Unfortunately, Plato saw no redeeming value in the arts.

Aristotle in my mind was the one out of all three that was the most scientific minded will call it. Play-Doh is most influential as the quote says from some famous guy all of Western philosophy has been footnotes to Plato and Socrates was of course the original guru of wisdom and the Socratic method which we just take for granted nowadays but was quite revolutionary back then when people would just make claims without being challenged dialectly

You think you have grasped the essence of Socrates and plato and then you go to Parmenides and you realise you don't understand shit...

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This makes me angry. How did Socrates get to be famous because his friend said he was cool. That’s the only reason I’m sorry, but I don’t think we should talk about him anymore that’s not fair.

Diogenes did it better.

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mid-WIFF-er-ree SOF-ists

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There's also No Written text of Jesus Christ himself ..every record comes from the work of others ... I don't know my destination I do know I'm on the right path.

For someone who claims to know a lot you seem to be very ignorant when you say BCE and CE. It’s actually BC and AD. Kinda sad you don’t know that

Man, I am really disappointed. Nothing about Socrates main idea of “Know Thyself.” Nothing about the State” . Clearly you dont know your subject you talking about. Please read the “State” at least, man.

Compare Deuteronomy and Jesus with the chaots like Socrates and Plato (I know, that I know nothing" Plato expelled from Athens, the first known misleading communist.) Those chaots did not bring anything positive, bringing nothing good untill our days....

Pseudoscience b.s.

Wish you were more honest about transgender people and the changes hormone replacement therapy does. Anti trans humor is also abusive and I will never stop standing up to it as well!

Philosophy, it is the only immaterial principle greeks gave to the west. Maybe mathematics, but the Egyptians and Persians had already established the numerical paradigms. Greeks derived most of their ideas from the levant. And then greeks like to shame Italians for copying them, there is nothing to copy from Greece, Italy is its own paragon. Not much can be done with philosophy, unless one prefers to sit in a room of Greeks. Or over-entitled anglo-saxons that were privileged on birth to attend private or grammar school. Romans: Give to Caesar what is owed to Caesar. Rome is the foundation of the West!

Your approach to explaining complex concepts is brilliant. It makes everything so clear!