You are very welcome! Be sure to check out to the Platonic Dialogue playlist where there are many other of Plato's works! I'm happy to hear that you find them valuable.

I imagine the sacred text archives and a good screen reader would be invaluable to you

Have you read the work of Graham Hancock? His fingerprints and magician’s of the goods go into this is great detail.

A reoccurring 12000 year pole shift might be the cause.

I honestly doubt Atlantis ever existed. I agree that ‘the great flood’ myth many civilizations around the world share likely describes the meltwater pulse 1b event but I think these are describing the same story in different ways. There is a fun theory that the Sumerians originally lived in what is now the Persian Gulf when it was just a valley. After a couple hundred years of sea level rise they moved into southern Iraq and told stories about how the gods punished mankind for it’s sins and wiped out the previous civilization. The greeks, Egyptians, Jews and Indins all borrowed that myth and adapted it to their own mythology. I think the idea of a great civilization going under the sea might be plato mixing various historical events that became legends by the time plato was alive. I would recommend reading about the bronze age collapse if that’s something you’ve never looked into before, but it’s important because it produced a 700 dark age in greece where people stopped writing things down and couldn’t read the previous writing system the mycannaeans or Minoans used. I think he mixed legends about the ‘sea people’ and collapse of the Minoan civilization along with a flood myth to produce the Atlantis civilization. I personally think he did this to describe how the passage of time will destroy even the most advanced civilization but just kept adding onto the myth as he got older. Anyway hope this helps!

According to Solon, the Egyptian Priest at Sais had record of what was it; 5 additional catastrophic events?

He sure is. There is no end of the depth of wisdom in the dialogues.

You're welcome. Glad you found it valuable! 👍

These readings are greatly appreciated. You have a pleasant pace and delivery. I plan to add you to my list of Patreon “clients.”

Wow! Thank you. There are not too many Plato fans out there, so it is great to meet a fellow lover of wisdom. More Plato to come soon. 🙏❤️

You are very welcome! I find the AudioEbook format the most helpful way to take in the ideas! 😀🙏

@@lewiskirk8289 yes me too! Tysm!

You are most welcome. It’s great to find people who appreciate Plato. 🙏

You're very welcome Jack. I really enjoy Plato, but it's not the easiest read, so these audioebooks help I believe. I intend to keep building and building the library and like you say, it should be available for a long time, all things being well. 👍

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What a great picture you paint with this comment. There are clearly connections and relationships between all you touch on above. The Timaeus is Plato's Genesis/Creation account, and I am sure that it impacted the church fathers and founders. I find having the text and audio the easiest way to consume the dialogue. Thanks for the great comment, and enjoy your studies.

@@lewiskirk8289 you are very very welcome... I must add, that: rediscovering the linear/historical relationship between Neith and Athena and the fact that "they're" the patron goddess of the Chicago Exchange, makes me fall in love all over again with the grand design of USA by it's founders... Also find it interesting that Diana is also in direct relationship with Neith/Athena, since they're goddess of Industry, Arts, and War... Since Gal Gadot is an ex Mossad agent... The irony! Finally, the cosmology expressed in this text reminds me of The Zohar (Kabala Book of Brilliance) and of Teosophical teaching of Madam Blavatsky (did you know most modern "high" art is based on her teachings?) ... add a bit of Akenahten (my fav pharo and first monotheist) Funny thing is, it took many years after reading these, for the information to be distilled into knowledge, even personal knowledge; as if personal memories of past lives. How to explain this... ? Let's say the "allegory" of "The Cave" is more real that we may let ourselves feel and think... That to know thyself in history and to know thyself, voluntarily or involuntary, the way all the smoke and mirrors break down... Yet, it is also lonely and perilous to go through "the cave", because once you see it, one can't go back, even if it might cost you your life... And one can't judge others for not "seeing it", because you where once like that and you yourself cannot fully explain why have you gone through this process; was it fate, was it an accident...

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You're welcome. Much more to come.

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You’re welcome. I find having the text and audio together the best way to consume dense information. Good luck with your studies 🙏

Your welcome Ian. Critias should be ready for next week. 👍

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Seems like a pretty straightforward distinction to me

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You are most welcome! I find the AudioEbooks the easy way to digest dense material like Plato. Glad you found it valuable 🙏

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You're very welcome! It’s the best way to consume the information in my opinion. Good luck with your studies 🙏

@@lewiskirk8289 yes I totally agree! And thank you, much appreciated!

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Glad I could help. Any time we read Plato we get smarter…

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It’s a wonderful dialogue. And thank you for pointing out those perennial truths across the other traditions 🙏

Plato was initiated by the Egyptians, and he learned and shared some of the secrets

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I can imagine you and I doing it. AI would do all the work, we would just need to prompt it.. amazing!

If all art and writing were AI, none of it would be of any value.

Ai doesn't have voice inflection, yet. It is still pretty flat and leads to no emotion or fluency.

I’m glad you enjoyed the dialogue. It comes from the Hackett publication and the translation is by DonaldJ.Zeyl

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I'm studying it intently for writing purposes, in 2023. And this is a real windfall of a nice resource.

I see the linked reference now, but I don’t know if editor means translator. Any idea?

You are welcome! The names next to each dialogue in the contents are the translators. If you read the acknowledgements too there is some nice information about the translations. Be sure to check out the rest of the Platonic dialogues. 🙏

Thank you for posting this. Plato is an all time favorite. I definitely will be listening to your channel. Have a blessed day.

Nobody killed Socrates. Athenians were very lenient with him, considering he was a heretic, and what a nuisance he had been. They gave him the option of drinking, hemlock, or leaving, he chose to drink it.

@jhn1488 Yes, I know, but it's not much of a choice for an elderly man. Either die from hemlock or die out in the wilderness. That's why he chose hemlock, easier death.

And of course there's the consideration that probably a lot more people than Socrates were executed by these courts for having associated with the Thirty Tyrants. On charges similarly nebulous sounding. Same reason Aristotle's Macedonian association became inexpedient enough he had to leave. Athens may not always have been a safe place to criticize democracy or be associated with monarchs and/or oligarchs.

@CDNSnowDay …does your comment mean you believe what these ancient Greeks described here is true or accurate? Anymore accurate than those who consider the moon a projector?

And then the text implies unjust people get reincarnated into women? Maybe I'm misinterpreting this, but I do find it strange how Plato would hold such seemingly contrary opinions.

@@2tehnik maybe it is explained in part by the simple answer that his brilliance was beyond his cultural view of the world.

@@2tehnik To be fair, it was the character of Timaeus who said that and not Socrates (Plato`s primary vessel for his ideas). Plato could see women as inferior metaphysically, but also believe that there should be no difference on a societal level, as in his ideal city. We should also avoid looking into ancient writings with modern views that may bias our interpretations. With that said, I`m not an specialist, but I hope I cleared things a bit.

@@cesare3016 old.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/jjr3sh/are_platos_views_on_women_contradictory_how_do_we/ Here's a good answer.

Here you go. Hope this works cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Plato-Complete-Works-by-Plato-John-M.-Cooper-D.-S.-Hutchinson-z-lib.org_.pdf

I thought that too. But I'm of the opinion that the Greeks, like most literate people, forgot the REAL order of the universe always includes balance between opposites. Because literate people write the importance of balance out of people's minds. They do it by portraying the negative, feminine, chaotic parts of life as "bad" and "undesirable." Look how Hesiod portrayed Pandora.

The Timaeus is not one of the easiest dialogues to understand. I made a video about where to start with Plato. Maybe you could start there 🙏

@@lewiskirk8289 Well I've read several dialogues already, Republic, Alcibiades, Ion... but this one wasn't really a dialogue at all, and it just felt like Timaeus was making stuff up 😂