@tryharder75
I'm off to Athens for three days tomorrow for the first time. This is my prep! God bless Bryan Magee
@ferriswill4929
This reupload series is wonderful. The perfectionist in me appreciates it!
@ashutosh4978
thankyou so much for everything that this channel provides. I fell in love with Bryan Magee because of this channel. If it wasn't for this channel, I would feel really displaced and alone in studying philosophy.
@lucas-qc2fj
Thank you so much for uploading this in such quality
@ts8538
A wonderful explanation of Plato's method and thought.--This series is really something.
@lifeisflowing.5405
Thank you so much for uploading the high quality videos!❤❤❤
@NoahZeus
36:34 Its interesting that in the famous painting of the Symposium, in which Plato and Aristotle are walking side by side, Plato is actually holding the Timaeus while pointing up to the sky rather than any of his other works.
@Doctor.T.46
I still have The Meno as my favourite. It brings back fond memories.
@albertusmagnus5829
@11:30 - "Injustice harms the doer..." I doubt Vladimir Putin is a reader of Plato or Socrates ... I also doubt we'll ever see philosophy on mainstream TV again but these archives are wonderful - thank you 🙏
@alwaysgreatusa223
Platonism is a philosophical system --- metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political, educational, etc. -- that attempts to work-out (or make explicit) many of the ideas already implicit in the philosophy of Socrates. For example, while Socrates appears to shun metaphysical speculation no less than he does natural philosophy, he speaks about no real harm coming to a good man, and praises a life dedicated to making the care of the soul more important than the acquisition of wealth, status, and power. This leads Plato into formulating a metaphysical theory of the immortal soul as belonging to a higher realm of existence of Pure Forms, while the human body belongs to the lower realm of corporeal and corruptible world of our sense experience. While I'm sure Socrates would be impressed by Platonism, and proud of his student, Plato, for his rationality and creativeness in formulating his philosophical system, I am also sure Socrates would have found the holes in it. Socrates' own message is much more skeptical with regard to system-building, and while he is not as skeptical as the sophists, one of his central messages is that human wisdom is worth little or nothing. This doesn't mean we should give-up, as he also says that the unexamined is not worth living. What we need Socrates seems to suggest is patient, rational, and continuous examination of those fundamental concepts by which we live -- justice, virtue, piety, courage, friendship, love, wisdom, etc. The end-point here is not necessarily any definite answers, much less a system like Platonism. Indeed, there is no endpoint, for what matters is the practice of philosophizing itself rather than arriving at final answers to our questions. It is the practice of philosophy that is important to Socrates, for he seems to believe that this practice builds virtue within a person's soul by making that person more rational, more reflective, more patient, more humble, less gullible, less dogmatic, less overbearing, and less arrogant in the forming of beliefs and the expressing of opinions. Moreover, the practice of philosophy makes men virtuous by redirecting their attention away from the worldly pursuits of wealth, prestige, and power towards focusing upon those eternal ideas and ideals that Socrates believes make for a good person and a good life. It is the life-focus that is important, more so than any final answers. This is in essence the ideal of philosophy itself. (see Rousseau and Nietzsche for rebuttal)
@Christianity_and_Perennialism
Imagine this on television now. People would think they were speaking a foreign language.
@TheBigFella
A great discussion.
@JohnathandosSantos
There is indeed good stuff on the Internet!!!
@jacobrosenberg3539
I love when Bryan or one of his interlocutors says "yes, yes" or "hm" lmao
@jamesrcowan
Nice upload. Wicked!
@tryharder75
Magee deserves a postumous knighthood
@sigvardbjorkman
very nice listen, I learned some things
@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602
It is not possible to talk about Socrates without considering his conduct in the face of a condemnation that even by the standards of the time could be called unjust. Instead of rebelling or fleeing, Socrates voluntarily submitted himself to the death penalty. But this submission was paradoxically not a demonstration of weakness but of strength. Socrates renounced neither life (which would eventually end anyway) nor Justice (which when practiced by human beings can always become a simulacrum) but embraced the consequences of his own conduct, because more than anyone he himself was capable of admit that it stung the people with whom he spoke. Plato somehow got two deep stings. One from Socrates himself, because Plato was an arrogant young aristocrat and he was humiliated by Socrates a few times. The other sting Plato took from the city of Athens when Socrates was condemned. This seems to have deeply marked Plato, forcing him both to reflect on politics and public life and to immortalize the teachings of the master whose life was so tragically cut short on the basis of ridiculous accusations.
@tombouie
Thks & ??please tell me how do you avoid cheap/scam YouTube ads??
@Philosophy_Overdose