VIDEO SUMMARY

PLATO'S REPUBLIC
Father of Philosophy/ Facist/ Feminist
  1. Thought Experiment
  2. Limits of Society
  3. The Golden Age
  4. The Peloponnesian War.(Athens v Sparta). A time of turmoil,corruption, brutality and ambition.
  5. Socrates- Gadfly. The Socratic Method
  6. Xenephon Aristophones - The Clouds
  7. The Republic - Dinner Table Talk
  8. The weapon example - "to give what is rightly his".
  9. "Advantage to the unjust" - Sophist
  10. Trial: (a) Not believing in the gods of Athens.(b) Corrupting the youth of Athens.
  11. "The unexamined life is not worth living"
  12. Society is the soul writ large.
  13. Mind -----Body -------Soul.
  14. Rules of the Republic: No parents. Rule of the Intelligent.Equal rights . 15. Gold - Philosophers , Silver - Military , Bronze - Artisans.
  15. The price of justice is limits and restrictions.
  16. Rulers can't own property and there are mating lotteries.
  17. Strong censorship of stories and poems.
  18. Homer and rowdy music are out. Politically correct is in.
  19. Theater is out. Good role models do not make good theater.
  20. Philosophers or Poets? Poets must bow to reason!
  21. Joseph Brodsky - Russian Poet. Soviet -styled republic.
  22. Plato subordinates aesthetics to ethics. Brodsky disagrees.
  23. Reality doesn't change - Plato. Reality is flux - Heraclitus.
  24. Allegory of the Cave. TV as the modern cave.
  25. Karl Popper blames Plato for Fascism not racial nor violent).
  26. Brodsky " corruption is the human norm"
  27. Singapore , a nation in a straight jacket.
  28. I don't want to live in a Huxlian Brave New World.-Mike Savage.
  29. Love of freedom becomes license.
  30. The Noble Lie : The gods have created people for a specific purpose.