Professor Wes Cecil, I absolutely without hesitation enjoy your Lectures on philosophy. I read voraciously since a small child. Happily the stars lead me here . Why would not anyone not love philosophy? Wow! It simmers with light over and over again. Eternally grateful I am to you. Thank you, sir with all of my heart ❤️ 💙 💜 💖
When a interviewer asked plato "how does it feel like being the greatest Philosopher of our time" he said "I dont know you should probably ask socrates"
@@TTmysTT Very interesting.... Socrates was indeed Plato's master, and he taught Plato how to be relentlessly inquisitive about open minded questioning on how to come to conceptions that represent authentic truths within Truth Itself.
I'm really new to philosophy in general but seems to me that Plato really idolized Socrates@@JimmyPlato1.(also didn't expect you to reply you left this comment 5 years ago )
Fantastic channel, you are a great teacher! I always found it difficult to stay interested in philosophy lectures long enough to learn something but listening to you is easy and effortless. You transmit your honest joy and enthusiasm of each subject to the audience. Thank You! 🙏❤ Greetings from Finland!😊
I remember listening a podcast in wich Wes said he gave up coffee as an experiment, wich turned out to be one of the most positive thing he did. Sounds like he had a relapse since then.
It was excusable to be a nominalist (the believer of psychological archetypes existing in our brain, and not outside of ourselves) centuries ago maybe, but not now. Now, it is a sign of mathematical illiteracy. The developments in complex analysis and fractal geometry leaves no doubt that Plato was right
You have no idea what your talking about with the word λογος. The word has a lot of different definitions. It can mean word, speech, tale, story, reckoning, account, proportion, reason, rationality etc etc. IT DOES NOT JUST SIMPLY MEAN CONVERSATION. The idea doesn't even make sense cause just who do you think god is having a conversation with? Lol
14:30 Beauty For ancient Greeks Beauty also means true, just, or noble. Also healthy and inspiring. 16:00 Including beauty in your life should inspire you to be a better human being. Ugliness damages us at the most fundamental level. 16:15 You need inspiration, divine inspiration, as it turns out, from beautiful objects to raise you above your Baseness. 17:05 if you have something that is so beautiful and so inspirational, imagine how great you would be.
_The beauty of schools_ We moved often when I was a kid... I never thought architectural beauty was deeply important, but, I just realized that the school in which I performed best and was most studious was in fact the most beautiful school I went to. There was a nice huge meaningful mosaic on one of the outside walls : art! My school after that one was in the basement of an old church with dull cardboard walls and water on the floors at times. My grades went down the drain there.
As I understand it, the word logos is, the speech, the talking with logic, with reason... Someone who is talking with logic, with mind, who have a start and an end on his actions and his thoughts. Who have a plan from the start to the end. Someone who knows what he is doing. You can't defined the word logos in English, in one word. I think.
At around 34:52 he says that plato’s theory about not allowing people freedom until they’re Able to overcome their base passions to some extinct may be accurate, and the audience/ students laugh. I’m so annoyed that they laughed and didn’t understand his point. Smh.
Hey Wes, if you read these you'll be very interested to know that further arguments for equality between men and women came soon after Plato! Zeno (the Stoic) wrote his own Republic in response to Plato whom he overwhelmingly disagreed with, but they agreed on this issue. Apparently he even argued that gendered clothing should be abandoned. Unfortunately the content of this work is now fragmentary, but because of the later popularity of Stoicism we're lucky enough to know something about it.
But I thought Plato was for me to become an insufferable ass? Your lecture makes me feel as though I already had been and blamed it all on him :( how dare I.
I love this, thank you so much for putting it up. I even listen to the seminars you make that I have no concept about. However I alaways feel slightly smarted for it.
does logos really means conversation ? this is what I found on internet A principle originating in classical Greek thought which refers to a universal divine reason, immanent in nature, yet transcending all oppositions and imperfections in the cosmos and humanity. An eternal and unchanging truth present from the time of creation, available to every individual who seeks it
The US is a republic and not a democracy. There is a difference and knowing the difference helps understand how the federal government should function.
William Tyndale translated the Bible into it's modern English. He was a brilliant linguist and died for his work. Logos means the WORD. It is means GOD."And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." Gen.1:3
There were lengthy discussions in the fourth century over the translation, mostly because it didn't translate into a single Latin word. There were other Greek words that could also have meant "word", and even today logos can be translated into a lot of English words depending on the context. Especially from ancient languages, the meaning of some words require lengthy descriptions that don't read smoothly because we don't have a real equivalent. The debate existed long before Erasmus, and it was the absence of the trinity in 1 John that was challenged by theologians.
The Alexandrian translation was the foundation of the Vulgate which was corrupted from the beginning. The Textus Receptus was the true text that corresponded with the Tanakh. There is no debate if you believe scripture, which text is correct.
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