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What is this? This is the Christian universe, right? This is God. This is heaven. This is earth, okay? Does it make sense? This is the allegory of the case. And you can see how it does these three things. It redeems the reputation of Socrates. It gives Christians an understanding of Jesus. And it becomes the framework from which Christians will build their understanding of the world. It becomes the basis of the Christian religion, okay? So Plato is the real founder of the Christian religion, not Jesus, okay? And we will go more into this when we discuss Christianity in the future, all right? Any questions? You look confused. Just ask any question. Let's start having a discussion, okay? Because I know this is a lot. Let's try to unpack it, okay? Yep. Oh, great, okay. The Republic, okay. 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Okay, does that make sense? And third of all, was his academy, okay? And the academy in Athens at that time, it's like Harvard, right? Or Oxford today. It's a place where all the elite children went, okay? So his students were the most powerful people in the world, basically. And his most famous student was Aristotle. And as we'll discuss in future classes, Aristotle is the one who basically packaged and promoted Plato. And Plato became a very important individual in the spreading of Greek culture. In fact, he was basically the main hero in this process, okay? So does that make sense? All right. Feel free to argue with me, by the way. I mean, like, if you feel I've said anything controversial or you sort of disagree with, let me know, and I will rebut. 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Ask a question, okay? Okay. That's a good question, okay? What are the influences of Plato, okay? So you can make the argument that Socrates was not that much of an intellectual influence on Plato. And the reason why is, remember, Socrates questioned your wisdom, but he himself did not propose any of his own theories, okay? Right. So what we know is this. First of all, during this time, this was the golden age of Greek philosophy, right? You had lots of philosophers in different polices, different places, proposing all these wonderful theories. So Plato definitely had access to them. Plus they were all friends, okay? And we also know this world of Greek thought was heavily influenced by Egypt, right? Because Egypt was really the epicenter of learning and philosophy at this time. And Egypt was actually very close to Greece. Also Mesopotamia, right? The Persians, okay? 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Any more questions? Okay, so next class, we will do the rise of Macedonia, okay? So remember, these are ideas that are being incubated in Athens and in Greece at this time. But ultimately, these ideas conquer the world, right? Greek theater, Greek philosophy spread all around the world. And the main reason is Macedonia. The main reason are two individuals, Philip II of Macedonia and Alexander the Great, okay? Who together will create the Hellenistic Empire. 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