Plato
202and Aristotle Makes Three
12 Aug 2024
4:49¶ 15
“As a teenager, Aristotle enrolled in Plato’s school and spent a good deal of time arguing with his teacher, and went on to found…”
5:21¶ 16
“Somebody someplace said that all of the history of philosophy is a footnote to Plato. That may be an exaggeration. More probably to the…”
7:32¶ 21
“Yes, because we are dealing with the Greek worldview in general, and these are variations on it, not radical departures from it. We’re still…”
201Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Ethics according to Plato
5 Aug 2024
0:21¶ 2
“We are going to attempt to cover all the rest of Plato that we have not already – no, that’s not what we’re doing.…”
7:12¶ 24
“The allegory of the cave leads directly to what most people think about Plato, although he didn’t spend all that much time talking about…”
10:25¶ 31
“When Christians approach this it’s easy to say, “So what he’s thinking about basically is we would say ideas in the mind of God.”…”
200Building a City State out of Plato
29 Jul 2024
43:53¶ 152
“Let’s see what we can chock up to Plato. I made a list here. In the name of social harmony he called for conspiracy…”
44:16¶ 153
“This is wisdom? This is the just and the beautiful? Christians need to stop listening to this garbage. Christians honestly need to read Plato.”
6:17¶ 25
“But since this is a roleplay as you say, it’s a thought experiment and Socrates even says at one point, “We know this can…”
197Rational and Religious
1 Jul 2024
33:42¶ 102
“I actually had a pastor ask me whether or not all the criticism of Plato was perhaps overdone, because maybe he was getting too…”
33:00¶ 100
“A great many Christians, beginning with the church fathers, look back to some of these people and said, “Ah! God reveals himself in many…”
33:36¶ 101
“Do you know who Plato really was, and have you actually read what he wrote?” We’re back to that again.”
3Chaos, Order, and Origins
19 Jan 2020
6:48¶ 15
“There’s only so many possibilities, and we can trace this kind of thinking back to Plato, who looks for the ideals and archetypes that…”
7:31¶ 17
“Yeah. There’s this little god-like Felix character who can go around and try to force the universe, the chaos – and we keep saying…”