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The lecture places Plato within a golden age of Greek philosophy where multiple thinkers across different poleis proposed theories and interacted with one another.
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The lecture places Plato within a golden age of Greek philosophy where multiple thinkers across different poleis proposed theories and interacted with one another.
Jiang emphasizes uncertainty about Plato's exact sources because many Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek, and other philosophical materials are lost.
"Any more questions? Ask a question, okay? Okay. That's a good question, okay? What are the influences of Plato, okay? So you can make..."
"...larger intellectual landscape. And a lot of these places had richer intellectual histories than Athens, okay? Egypt, definitely. Mesopotamia, okay? So does that answer..."
"But we don't know who these people were. Because remember, citizenship, it's not really just about changing the past. It's also about eliminating most..."
"...you think about it it is a radical revolution in human intellectual history okay do"
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central turn: Socrates attacks democracy by exposing the weakness of language and reason, then Plato rescues Socrates by turning the cave into a martyr story, a Christian universe,...
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