Plato - Tumblr Posts
Plato makes up Atlantis as an allegory and over 2,000 years later people are still looking for it. You might as well be looking for Narnia.
Socrates in Plato's Apology be like: I'm a bad bitch you can't kill me 😤😤
I took a break from doing philosophy homework to look at parkour civ stuff and it felt like I was still doing philosophy homework.
Plato you would have loved Parkour Civilization trust me
(He probably wouldn’t he’d probably be the nerd that wrote all the books instead of actually making jumps like a real champion)
edit: I gave it more thought and remembered plato thought books were dumb and that the only real way to learn was through oral education idk hed probably be some random ass parkour noob then
Sicché se s'inventasse il modo che uno stato, un campo militare fossero tutti fatti d'innamorati con i rispettivi belli, non è pensabile un più alto modello di governo, cioè di gente che rinuncia a ogni impudicizia, duella in ambizioni oneste e scesa in capo aperto, spalla a spalla, pochi quanto volete, avrebbero la forza di battere - e lo dico forte - tutto il mondo.
Platone - Simposio
I adore how Plato tells everything about Socrates in one sentence in Symposium:
He said that he met Socrates fresh from the bath and sandalled; and as the sight of the sandals was unusual, he asked him whither he was going that he had been converted into such a beau.
The wisest man in Athens usually walked around barefoot and unbathed, and he didn’t give a damn about it.
And Socrates was so charismatic that handsome young noble men in Athens were falling in love with him.
I LEARNED RECENTLY THAT PLATO WON THE GOLD MEDAL IN THE OLYMPICS FOR WRESTLING THREE TIMES. THIS PUTS A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THINGS. I ALWAYS IMAGINED PLATO TO BE FRAIL AND MISSHAPEN BUT HE MUST HAVE BEEN FRICKEN RIPPED. I WONDER IF ARISTOTLE EVER FELT ANXIETY ABOUT GETTING PHYSICALLY (I.E. NOT JUST METAPHYSICALLY) DISMANTLED BY PLATO. PLATO WAS PROBABLY PISSED OFF BY AT LEAST A HANDFUL OF QUESTIONS ARISTOTLE ASKED HIM. ARISTOTLE WAS A LITERAL GENIUS TOO. IMAGINE PLATO LECTURING AND WRITING ON A BLACKBOARD AND ARISTOTLE THROWING A COMMENT OUT THERE ABOUT SOME COMPLEX MISSTEP IN PLATO’S LOGIC AND PLATO’S CHALK JUST SNAPS AND ARISTOTLE’S TESTICLES SUCK WAY BACK UP TO WHERE THEY DROPPED FROM, THEN PLATO IN A BLUR APPEARS BESIDE ARISTOTLE SITTING AT HIS DESK AND HE PICKS HIM UP AND SUPLEXES HIS MACEDONIAN ASS.
so, yeah, Plato was definitely an asexual. Stop calling the man naïve for thinking love doesn’t require sex.
In other news, I will be commenting for the rest of the lecture.
Woof, if you’re going to roast the man like that, you’d think Plato would get more time in the discussion. Nope, now we talking solely about Notre Dame de Paris. And yet, nothing about the massive reconstruction efforts, the conservation of the original techniques, the training of the craftsmen going into this.
But finally a good description of how the new arch style differed from the ones before. And why flying buttresses were important.
so, yeah, Plato was definitely an asexual. Stop calling the man naïve for thinking love doesn’t require sex.
In other news, I will be commenting for the rest of the lecture.
I love Diogenes. Not for anything he stood for, but because he lived and breathed exclusively to clown on Plato every single day and I think that is really beautiful.
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
Plato
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
-plato
"Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be,
But go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea."
-Translation of Plato by Michael R. Burch
Soulmates
Humans were originally created with four arms, four legs, and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate beings, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves - Plato's 'The Symposium'
I like to think of this when I’m lonely
Thinking about the evolving tree of religion-philosophy-sciences is wild, like, check it.
So it starts with African religions, then ancient egypt and the beginning of politics, then India and their religions and politics, then China, and Greece, and Rome, and all their philosophers and schools of thought, and then all the lines of thought evolve into countless more lines of thought molded by the events that happen around them, until the modern day!
It's easier to give examples when doing it backwards:
Marxism<-Hegelianism<-Kantianism<-Cartesianism<-Christian Philosophy<-Christian Theology<-Platonism<-Pre-Socratic Philosophy<-Greek Mythology<-Egyptian Mythology<-African Mythology
So to study Marxism properly, you have to have studied all of those before it! GREAT :3
plato would be so disappointed in our nation...
...there's a severe lack of philosophers running for office...
My first pages are up on the site!
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ESCAPE FROM PLATO’S CAVE
