I've been listening to all "expert" instructors on youtube from Yale to whatever yet this instructor takes the effort to make Platonism comprehensive in terms of the STUDENT and speaks to the student-not at them. Thanks for the effort. I am so happy i finally get it.
_the only one who has the capacity to teach one platonism is one who is a platonist. there is more than meets the eye. that's the whole point_ _for one, platonism is about asking questions and awakening a desire in the one so hearing (if you understand) to resolve the matter_ _plato would recoil in sheer terror at seeing with his eyes how far his teachings have fallen, at the totally corrupt state of "universities at present" -- the modern sophists who borrow his good name at interest. stranger, give it back_
That was absolutely fascinating, ive just started trying to get into philosophy at 30 and nothing ive seen or read so far was as clear as this, its made perfect sense, id love to see more, thanks very much
@@matthewbullock8736 I know, I wish he would create more content, and I wish we could help. I do know one person who helps youtubers grow and he does it for free if your content is good. Maybe I can try.
Just wanna say thank you Mr. Brooks for making these complex ideas available, and in a plain-spoken way, to those of us who might not ever see the inside of a college classroom. This is important stuff. You are doing good things for the progress of humanity.
Thank you for sharing. I threw away the first 27 years of my life. I remember the day I finally broke... it was a private moment. But I’m here now and trying to learn. If you and others like you didn’t share this knowledge and let me benefit from a man who has his house in order... I just don’t want to know where I’d be.
31 seconds were meant for thinking about the title and for questioning as to why the hell the intro is taking so long Philosophy is confusing like that lol.
This is the best lecture on Plato I have heard by far. Plato was my favorite Greek philosopher and one of all time favourites. But over the years I heard some shoddy commemtary on him, and I started liking Aristotle more. This lecture overturns that.
This is an incredibly interesting lecture that is very well carried out, engaging and educative. Dr Brooks has a great rhetoric which keeps you glued to the screen and makes you itch for more knowledge. Hope to see more of this!
I absolutely LOVE and appreciate these lectures. Its so enriching in the best way and made me realize I’ve been a platonic thinker my whole life. Thank you 🙏🏻🤍
Fantastic lecture. I am fascinated by this. It seems similar to knowing Natural Law. The founders were very educated and practiced the 7 liberal arts and sciences.
Hey George, I'm starting your videos today and I've gotta say I'm really enjoying it so far. Thanks for uploading these! Side note I believe this is what the internet's best self is. Sharing pure knowledge with no ulterior motive, just to inform the masses.
When i was a kid i hated school, teaching .... anything related to it realy. Now at the age of 32 I am appriciating it. Thank you whoever you are. You are an amazing teacher, transferring this amazing knowledge to poeple like me. Thank you Thank you and thank YOU
You my friend are the professor I wish I'd have had in college. Thank you for your service to the education of mankind, including but not limited to myself, for I learned a lot in this past hour or so.
What a great professor you are !! You're truly the kind of professor that just makes me love philosophy, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us ! :)
Thank you so much for making clear connections with the Constitution and Christianity. I had heard of these connections, but your lecture made the connection real.
This is really a great lecture.. Many thanks to you Mr Brooks , you’re truly a wonderfully insightful professor.. As a Muslin who knows the basics about his religion’s entireties I can assure you that all those questions raised by PLATO are answered in the QURAN and in prophet teachings especially the super form (GOOD) which is basically GOD or ALLAH.. They’re in fact answered- to a degree- in the the BIBLE and TORAH as well.. All in all PLATO’s philosophy is a guiding enlightenment in life.. God bless
This lecture reignited my passion for philosophy 3 years ago and in the rare occasion I have meaningful dialogue with someone and share this passion, I use lessons from this lecture to introduce said person to the wonders of philosophy. I use a circle though, we know what a circle is, we can conceptualize a perfect circle but we are not capable of making a perfect circle. I may draw a circle on paper and while its tangible, physical and present, it is only a poor reflection of its ideal form... a non physical idea pulled from the ether., the logos. It was this very lecture, this very idea that shattered my perception of reality and truly changed me, I equate it to something like ego death and I have been devouring philosophical ideas ever since. I liked philosophy growing up and I was having deep philosophical thoughts at an early age but somewhere in my late teens I became a product of my environment, a shadow of my true self with a perpetual mask to conform,blend in and be accepted. Luckily I broke free or at least learned to remove the mask, and this lecture was a honestly a big part of it, maybe even the catalyst so thank you very much, truly. I'll leave you with the next two questions I pondered and still ponder.... is the good a reflection of God's ideals, or does God hold these ideals because they are good(Plato/Socrates). 7.) Is man just a blunder of God, or is God just a blunder of Man.( Nietzsche)
Thank you for your kind words--and I'm pleased that people out in the world are enjoying these little efforts, which I only filmed to provide for my online students--I had no idea they would be watched by people around the world.
Excellent video, thank you for sharing. I recently read Republic and I wanted to learn more about Platonism. This video taught me a lot and inspired me to think. And the bit of patriotism you expressed here is heartening, especially in a time when it's fashionable to dislike America.
I never knew anything about philosophy but have recently discovered it and read Plato's The Republic and found it fascinating. I think some people are just geared to this way of thinking. I would be the one to notice someone was physically attractive and then occasionally think..... How do I know they are attractive? What is it that makes them attractive and someone else not attractive? I thought I was just weird.... until I discovered philosophy. Maybe still weird.... but at least now I know I'm not the only one 😂😂. Awesome video, I will be watching the rest of your series on Plato.
Damn. It's 2022 now, and I fancy myself to have an understanding of this already... I still found this extremely valuable with respect to my own thinking. Thank you Dr. Brooks.
Excellent exposition! I personally don't have the time at the moment to delve into Plato; although, he's been one I've been wanting to study for some time now. In the meantime, these classes will greatly suffice. Thank you very much for your knowledge, time, and effort.
Thank you for making this public. I enjoyed spending my Friday evening listening to your lecture. I found your lecture because I was looking for an audio version of Plato's Cave. I was hoping to grasp a deeper insight into the concept of Christian "repentance" as equal to the concept of the form of "change." Your lecture nailed it! Thank you!!!
I love learning about this. This has me pondering....i would say there is no more "good" than there is "evil". I would say that 'justice' and 'truth' can not be seperate and individual bodies or forms. I am divided on...if Eros and Logos (and my understandings of them) are juxtapositions of each other, than 'beauty' can not be one individual body or form? Or is that exactly what it is. I can't accept that there can be pure 'good' without pure 'evil', but I can accept that everything is closer to or further from 'logos', which is not 'good'.
*Nietzsche called Christianity "Platonism for the masses". Pope Benedict XVI said that Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle prepared the arrival of Christ to our world. Keep in mind that these great Greek philosophers lived around 500 years before Jesus.*
I give the teacher an A. He presents Plato's idea of universal forms in a way that is easily understood. He draws better than most philosophy professors I've seen, too. His horses look like horses.
Christianity is a product of Plato. Someone said that Christianity is Plato for the people, for the crowd.He was taken the ideal and perfect man (God) and was revered. It's that simple. Those who wrote the Bible knew Plato very well.
What's real is what we experienced by our different senses . What we experienced say we taste a hot meal, what we feel during summer, what we feel, during cold weather.
You are a great lecturer. You spin a very engaging and interesting narrative. Love it! After reading the apology and the republic it's nice to hear more context and history.
Soon as he said the white board and the door my brain stuck with patterns. The thought of patters, sticking out or maybe being picked out. Is a subject of its own.
This was awesome.. what a cool teacher and absolutely good lecture. He knows how to break it all down so you can grasp what the philosophers were trying to convey to us. Awesome video 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I suppose Plato may say that there is no absolute standard model of what a chair is but that all the forms of a chair are variations on what a chair is, none more true than another. He said that perfect forms are in heaven and we lose this when we are born but love is the perfect form on Earth as it exists among the perfect forms that are in heaven.
In the last part he says "this is so basic to the whole western approach to reality that all of this made sense along the way". Weirdly enough back in high school here in Germany I had the feeling that among the young people the dominant world view was that of reductive materialism.
I’m here because favorite Entertainer Michael Jackson said study all of greats to be one of the greatest that live. I always been curious about the deeper knowing. I love learning a lot and very grateful for law of attractions.
I wanted to understand platonism and forms. Googled it, found this video. Couldn't take my eyes off of this lecture. It seems Plato's form is like Tao of Laozi. The substance of everything, of the universe.
I took philosophy and let me tell you, my teacher was not good at all, i had to drop the class just because i can teach myself more in a study than he taught me and this video is very well made your and awesome teacher, one problem i had with my teacher is the amount of packets he’d give us just to read he would never lecture use i wanted to learn philosophy by being taught it not by reading
Glad it helped. I just posted these to get them to my online students, but people from around the world have been watching and commenting positively on these videos, especially the Plato lectures. Seems like colleges around the world teach Plato...that's a good thing.
12:00 - What is reality 20:00 - Cave, world of shadows, the Sun 31:00 - Justice, Plato search for justice 35:00 - Dialogues 42:00 - Idealization of politics, american politics, search for the Forms in the constitution 47:00 - Good & Ignorance of the Good
