Plato's Republic: Book VI

This video lecture is on Book 6 of Plato's Republic

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nice outfit ... the philosopher, the eternal return, and that which is behind the things, and the samsara ... and in this way it's hard for the philosopher to engage in politics, in power, and also for others to listen to the philosopher, as she/he speaks of the unseen

i'm starting to believe more there is no ego, there is no person, no subject, just a collection of dynamic desires and impressions, and that free will is quite limited - we are who we are in ourselves and via our environ.

people could do whatever they want, only for the problem that they can destroy not others (always been the problem) but now also the planet (the new problem). as the will needs opposition, in destroying the world humans may destroy themselves, in that in the void without the world and without the thou, there is no reality for a human - then truly only dust, only the evacuated rational thing, a physical thing and not more.

yes, society sublimates the base desire, and education raises the good, yet the dynamic whole must always realize in some space - the balancings. man must overcome his materialism to survive, and know that what she is is not material, but the life force, the spiritual - that is what distinguishes the human, that it is soil that has moved beyond soil. without climbing the hierarchy, we revert to dust.