[0:00:26 - 0:00:39] I think a lot of people have heard of Plato's
Republic or the cave analogy or the myth of Earth, but they don't really have a ton of context as to who Plato was, why he did what he did.
[0:02:39 - 0:02:56] And so I want to start kind of at a super baseline level because I think a lot of people, you know, have heard of Plato's
Republic or the cave analogy or you know, the myth of Earth, but they don't really have a ton of context as to who Plato was, why he did what he did.
[0:02:56 - 0:03:04] So why don't we just start it kind of ground zero, who is Plato and why did he write the
Republic? Sure.
[0:03:36 - 0:03:42] And it's pretty clear that Socrates does not always speak for Plato, which I think is important even in the
Republic.
[0:04:32 - 0:04:44] So I think I think an important thing to note about the
Republic is, you know, the setting of it is in kind of a small,
[0:07:13 - 0:07:23] But I think it's interesting that Plato's
Republic, the actual question they initiate the dialogue is the question of death. Okay.
[0:07:46 - 0:07:56] Or with two stories about death. So for my money, if you ask me what's the
Republic about it's really about death. Okay. And in the human condition in facing death. All right.
[0:10:27 - 0:10:37] But no, you'd have to have a good city first to have those to produce those philosophers in the first place. So there's this really difficult circular problem of founding in the
Republic.
[0:18:03 - 0:18:18] Yeah. So at a certain point in the
Republic, play a little has stocker, teasing the fellows arrive this conclusion that the guardians will have to be told in some translations, good lies about the afterlife.
[0:27:01 - 0:27:07] Yes. So I think it's important to note in the
Republic. Okay. And this could be, we could get
[0:58:04 - 0:58:10] because he would look at something like that dialectical process in the
Republic whereby one
[1:31:28 - 1:31:34] Plato's
Republic, which he talked about. That is such a fascinating myth. Also kind of I think
[1:31:44 - 1:31:52] Republic, Err was a virtuous person. He dies in battle for the city. It does all the great good
[1:39:43 - 1:39:49] at a certain point in the
republic I forget whether it's Glaucommer Adam Antis you know it says
[1:40:41 - 1:40:46] republic right the the the we'll be talking about earlier the problem the founding like we're not
[1:40:53 - 1:40:57] is sort of a sequel to the
republic right it's like the day after the party and Socrates says
[1:44:09 - 1:44:15] in the
republic and Aristotle's Nuclemi kinetics those are the protocols right right yeah it's so
[1:55:19 - 1:55:24] and they think I read the
republic as this is a manual for political skepticism