Plato on Wisdom: Plato's Euthydemus

Socrates discusses wisdom, concluding that it is a self-replicating craft. @PhiloofAlexandria

[walsobrinho]

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[adhityadarmawan]

I hope you live well with all the wisdom you have, professor ❤

[magouliana]

Hi Professor thank you for an awesome lesson on this subject.
You make it so easy to understand this difficult subject that is missing and needed in our not so modern world.

[imikalfunangongo]

Sinclair Lewis aptly points out that the craft of others is found on "Main Street" and is seen as a 'result' of 3k years of cultural transformation. Recognition of this 'result' is a single reply, by the conditioned mind, to culture. Thus, the proper questions are threefold: First, what does the unconditioed mind see? Second, how does the unconditioned mind engage its will in shaping as innovation a better result? And third, surely, can we agree that the one who crafts virtue as high art using newly invented tools is the same man we call both WISE and embodiment of WISDOM?

[michaelRay-bp]

I think what Socrates/Plato are missing here is love, Godly love. Godly love is the highest good. Wisdom is the craft of attaining to Godly love. Quit simple really. OK, attaining Godly love seems an impossible goal in this life, but using wisdom to work toward that goal is the highest work of this life and will account thereafter.

[michaelRay-bp]

I think what Plato is missing here is love. Real actual love, not Cinderella love, but Godly love. Godly love like wisdom, is always good. The work of wisdom is to attain to Godly love.

[mileskeller]

Kind of sounds like an argument for hedonism

[kallianpublico]

How do you start with what is good and end up with wisdom? Are the good wise? I can imagine Billy Budd striking that vindictive petty officer and killing him. Are the wise good? I can imagine David sending a soldier off to die so he can claim his wife.
What is good is not mediocre, nor vain, nor capitalist happiness. What is good must be good in the field of goodness.
When playing soccer the field is not just the grounds but your teammates, the referees, the fans, the rules and the opponents. Scoring a goal is good. Winning the game is better. What is good in soccer ⚽️? Winning? Scoring a goal? Winning the season? Playing well and avoiding injuries?
What is wise and what is good do not always translate to the same thing. Life is not a soccer field. The field of life includes death and mystery and crime and disease and survival. Is survival wisdom? We die anyway, why not postpone it as long as we can? Is that a good life to live?
Perhaps it is best to ask if there is anyone or any being altogether good. If there is not, if there is no example, then how can wisdom be wise?