I was more aware of my own mortality when I was a kid. Lately I've found myself wishing for life extension technology. Looking forward to read Plato's Apology.
To what degree did Socrates invite this response from the State? He (we?) positions himself as an almost arms length observer to the events. I don't even mean it in the glib sense (after all, he dies); but what part of Socrates as a new form of Teloological outcome developed towards this end? To what end does he synthesise into the Society as deepest and most fundamental image of the society (oh, you love knowledge do you? Do you love this knowledge?) and inevitable critic? To what degree is Socrates the first Jesus Christ? Where is the seperation of self / telos / society here? Fascinating.
The Sacrifice is a pivot right. Of Jesus and Socrates of the entire civilisation. In history they are moments of pure kernel of Society. But to die in the moment one must somehow apprehend this. An inevitability. A bailout of the society for it's contradictions to witness some pure form of itself very briefly in a mode that cannot be denied. Then what? Then History occurs
It's too bad Euclid got Plato's "forms" and "solids" upside-down like 2300 years ago. It was only two years ago that we proved 1D-4D aren't locally real after all. Euclid's dimensional blunder is what made our physics third-person "view from nowhere" since it starts from 1D. The hazards of misinterpreting Plato, hahaha.
@iankclark Getting the difference between 0D (dimensionless) and non-zero dimensions (dimensional) upside-down is pretty bad. The platonic solids look like a bag of D&D dice....how did Euclid think those were dimensionless (0D)?
@ Beats me. But here we are. Comprehension seems to be cyclical. Imagining reality precedes evidence for it. If imagination is discursive then it takes time to come back around to a higher resolution starting point.
A great to joy to watch this - well done!
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This clip deserves more views.
Amazing! It's been so long since I've read Plato. Plato's Apology has moved to the top of my reading list. Thank you! 🙏🏾
Bravo ! You know Sokrates like students know their Teacher... A Greek friend, Nikephoros.
Socrates was the ultimate philosopher!
I've always thought that the Phaedo was "the book" that everyone should read before dying.
I was more aware of my own mortality when I was a kid. Lately I've found myself wishing for life extension technology. Looking forward to read Plato's Apology.
To what degree did Socrates invite this response from the State? He (we?) positions himself as an almost arms length observer to the events. I don't even mean it in the glib sense (after all, he dies); but what part of Socrates as a new form of Teloological outcome developed towards this end? To what end does he synthesise into the Society as deepest and most fundamental image of the society (oh, you love knowledge do you? Do you love this knowledge?) and inevitable critic? To what degree is Socrates the first Jesus Christ? Where is the seperation of self / telos / society here? Fascinating.
The Sacrifice is a pivot right. Of Jesus and Socrates of the entire civilisation. In history they are moments of pure kernel of Society. But to die in the moment one must somehow apprehend this. An inevitability. A bailout of the society for it's contradictions to witness some pure form of itself very briefly in a mode that cannot be denied. Then what? Then History occurs
A gravity of total recoil on the one side and an explosion on the other
One tends to wonder why Socrates' chose not to commit his ideas to paper..........
"PRACTICE DYING", yea? ...................................................
It's too bad Euclid got Plato's "forms" and "solids" upside-down like 2300 years ago.
It was only two years ago that we proved 1D-4D aren't locally real after all. Euclid's dimensional blunder is what made our physics third-person "view from nowhere" since it starts from 1D.
The hazards of misinterpreting Plato, hahaha.
You can't blame it all on Euclid. If he invented Koolaid, still almost everyone drank it.
@iankclark
Getting the difference between 0D (dimensionless) and non-zero dimensions (dimensional) upside-down is pretty bad.
The platonic solids look like a bag of D&D dice....how did Euclid think those were dimensionless (0D)?
@ Beats me. But here we are. Comprehension seems to be cyclical. Imagining reality precedes evidence for it. If imagination is discursive then it takes time to come back around to a higher resolution starting point.
@@iankclark
I like the way you think.
Too much waffle