Plato and Socrates: just the basics

As a first lecture in an introductory course in philosophy, Dr. Johnson discusses Plato and Socrates, some of the ideas and some of the challenges in thinking about them for the first time.
Dr. Johnson teaches at Georgia Tech. He is the author of Paradox at Play: Metaphor in Meister Eckhart's Sermons by Catholic University of America Press. It includes many sermons never before translated into English.
Meister Eckhart, Paradox at Play
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[@rossanderson5447]

enjoyed , thanks for taking the time to post this. I can concur that "I know nothing", and like the Tao, to say anything of these things is ultimately not going to produce a truth at all, but like you say, can help make us "better" people in a sort of transformational sense.

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You’re quite welcome - I’m glad you enjoyed it!

[@bartoszmachula8927]

so far loving this playlist, are you into Nietzsche? when you brought up Socrates being ugly it reminded me of Nietzsches critics on socrates and plato, do you think you;ll ever do a video on Nietzsche or any other 18/19th century philosophers? Keep up the great work!

[@goodtothinkwith]

Thanks, glad you’re enjoying it! Yes, I’ve always enjoyed Nietzsche. I’ve done a couple of pieces on Kierkegaard and I discuss others… not as much from the 18th century, perhaps? I hadn’t thought about that. I need to do one on Schelling…

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Should we teach by being “philosophical midwives”? Would that only work for certain subjects?