Why Read the Classics? Intro to Plato's Gorgias: on Democratic Politics (Georgias 1, ft. cat)

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[mightylotan]

#1 fan checking in :) ty for the video

[YellowCakeRadio]

This reminds me of Pierre Grimes Philosophical Midwifery

[gabrielnemirovsky]

A while back I was a teaching assistant for an ethics 101 course. I expected to be leading seminars on Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Bentham, and Mill. Instead we taught a lot of contemporary philosophers, who ultimately were basically either Platonists, Aristotelians, Kantians, or Benthamites. But it was much more difficult for the students to understand this way, rather than showing them where and how these debates all began in the first place. It also seemed strange that we were bringing up a whole new generation of philosophers, or at least philosophy-inclined people, who are in their twenties and have yet to read a Platonic dialogue.

My own formation involved a lot of the classics. I remember as an undergrad I had to read Plato's Republic several times. It was on the syllabus for ethics, political theory, metaphysics, and a course entirely on Plato. At the time I thought it was a bit ridiculous to be assigned the same text over and over again. Looking back, I am grateful. That text alone has so much to offer and each reading provides something new, despite being so old.

[robertflury]

I appreciate your efforts to promote the Classics

Hard hustle though, the drumbeat against male pale and stale is loud and uncompromising

It appears that cultural revolutions do not have an off switch or even a volume knob

Maybe the best we can hope for is Fire and Glory, something with a Roman flair