Classical Greek Philosophy: Socrates and Plato

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

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.

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"

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!

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

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

Love this series!

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!

amazing ! thanks, love this topic

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.

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.

This was brilliant thanks

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

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

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.