I'm coming from a premodern-Sufi background of Ibn Arabi where I was tracing the neo-platonism back to its roots in Plato's doctrine. These lectures are not only a great demonstration of understanding Plato but it's also helping me to decipher Ibn Arabi's Opus - Futuhat. Thank you for these smooth and rich lectures.

My philosophy professors were pretty good, but Dr. Kreeft is a first-rate teacher.

This is the most superb lecture on Plato I have ever heard - clarity, depth and insight coexisting in perfect harmony. It should be listened to by the smart guys at Google and in AI, by all sceptical 'smart-ass' debunkers, by David Hume, by religious fundamentalists and by the equally evangelical, 'We're-all-right-Jack' 'New Atheists', by naturalist philosophers who know it not, and by poets and mystics who at least have some sense of it. Most of all, it needs to be listened to by _me_ before I teach any more on Plato.

Very well said that today there is philosopher that is relevant than Plato himself. Thank you for sharing this lecture.

The difference between us not being mere beast not computing animal is that we can comperhend necessary truth. Wow that's so bellísimo Dr. Kreeft. Oh! If only Man know his dignity!!

Most all lecturers have a sufficient understanding of their subject but very few can "sing", as it were. Peter Kreeft is a troubadour.

These lectures were originally entitled "The Platonic Tradition: Understanding Plato's Impact through the Ages" Adjust your expectations accordingly. Only the first lecture is about Plato. Subsequent lectures are about other thinkers' reflections on Platonism.

Brilliant. Thank you.

At 31:20, Dr. Kreeft explains how we can know the Forms; namely, that they are "impressed" upon us from outside. In other words, they are revealed. Plato's light outside the cave, the meteor coming down from outer space, and the angel coming down the ladder from heaven are God's revelation to Mankind out of love. Orthodox Christians call this God's Uncreated Light, or His energies. True enlightenment is the participation in these energies, beginning with a repentant heart. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; both now, and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

Thank you ObjectiveBob , so so much! Waiting for the other lectures in this series.

GREAT LECTURE ...

Dont fret on the Forms.......its all about SELF , know thySELF

Thank you much for uploading this wonderful lecture!

Really appreciate this video.

Aren't we discovering the Absolute one platonic idea at the time until all the colors retransform back into white light? Is this the purpose of time?

Thank you.

Thank you for being you

Thank you so much for these extremely interesting lectures. Will you upload lectures 5&6? Thank you again

For me the example of a horse having to live in the real world as it is aside from Man's creations. Weather etc. And graze all day . Always foraging for food. Having the Dynamics of there own behavior and daily dramas. And being real about them. Concern and action. Horses hear better and longer and can see through a person's bull imediatly.

Can you please upload the rest? Or did you already? Can you upload the Faith and Reason lectures too those are classics thanks!

Plato is my last name I like it,

Great lectures.. but where are the last four lectures... Objective bob?

Do you listen to any podcasts?

I want to know is why oh why didn't they tech me this in School. 🤔🙄😥

Nice.

I have a question, if we choose how to use our language does that mean we have an influence on platonic forms? Before the discovery of Australia the form of a "mammal" could be said to include animals that had fur and gave live birth. But upon the discovery of the platypus and echidna they were faced with a decision to classify them as a mammals or not. Does the nature of the platonic form mammal depend on the human choice we make to classify something as a mammal or not?

PORCUPINE TREE WOOHOOO

Where can we get the other lectures in the series?

What is the best English translation for The Republic?

How can we get lectures 5, 6 and 7?

thnx very much for these lectures. [ and P Kreeft] although hogwartian hogwiffery of the highest horder. hope to listen to all of the lectures ...all of which will be h.h. of the h. h..

Do lectures 5,6,7 & 8 exist?

The type writer is Salman

Is that a rude sign that Plato is making?

So you never came up with other lectures?

Wow ... We all new him personally.. School is a control institute... Sheep

I like Plato the epitome and central to Western culture philosophy n values and beliefs and politics! Plato said for God sake by all means get married. When you got a Good wife you’ll be happy but when you got a bad one you’ll become a Philosopher! I bet Plato have had a bad wife! K

I love Peter Kreeft. But, the one thing I dislike is that videos 2 and 3, so far, have very little of Plato being talked about. Kreeft gave a primer on Plato in video one, and then we go to Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, and perhaps Aquinas is video four. The lecture is titled, "Plato." I want all of these vids to live up to their promise because I want to delve deeply into Plato. I will study the others after an in depth Plato lecture. ObjectiveBob, you need to change the title of these lectures to correspond with the figure being talked about. This is not a Plato lecture. Perhaps video four will return to Plato.

Right off the bathroom seems to be a big hole in his theory , he says that nothing comes from nothing but then I bet he believes that God is an uncaused cause.

Whitehead was English, although he taught in USA after 1923. Amazing mistake at the very beginning.

Oh if only some snowflake blundered onto this, and then had the nous, courage and honesty to disseminate it.

Plato was literally talking about mushrooms. It’s not as deep as you think you can experience it for yourself.

Lol what? Alfred North Whitehead was NOT American.... off to a bad start.

No no

Is this legal to post, isn't this stealing Kreeft's property?

politics existed for thousands of years without 'human rights'

"Source of all philosophical errors"? Oh, come on

Peter Kreeft is a good popularizer of Western philosophic tradition, though it's a pity he is a hidebound dogmatist regarding his adherence to corrupt Catholic theology and ecclesiology, woefully ignorant of the Jewish roots of the Christian faith and -- this is important -- ancient Jewish contributions to philosophy long before the rise of pre-Socratic thinkers of ancient Greece in the 300's BC. After all, Abraham united the ideals of moral transcendence with that of an single First Cause and Creator some 1500 years BEFORE Plato was on the scene... Read King David's psalms or his son Solomon's works such as Ecclesiastes (i.e., Kohelet) for the world's first existential philosophy... etc.

Bad sign when I can tell the lecturer is a Christian apologist in the first five minutes...