He does look like Matt Damon

I love the fact you continue to learn... I hope to be in your position at your age; continuing with a path of constant growth.

Thank you so much for the kind words! This is the second shout out I've gotten from the Czech Republic this week. I'm visiting the Netherlands this summer. Sounds like I need to visit Prague sometime with so many people watching my videos there!

+Shruti Gaddamwar Thank you very much for the kind words!

Well, thanks to the wonders of KZfaq, I can be your teacher now and then!

Obrigado!

This Channel has a Clever Name Thanks! Your channel name sounds like something a sophist would devise. :D

420StonerComedy - Philosophy and politics are Greek inventions; one could say they are both peculiarly Greek.

tellem democracy sux....socrates said it not me

Yes, I definitely intend to cover some more ground there at some point. I really enjoy classical history and the more my audience demands more of it, the more likely I will be to put more of my efforts there!

Tom Richey That's great to hear. I'm from England and I have been watching your videos for a while now; you're french revolution series helped me so much for my history A level! And in September I'm hoping to study religion and theology at the university of Manchester and this kind of stuff is fantastic plus you make it so interesting!

+Tom Richey do the influence of Greek philosophy on the doctrine of the Trinity and the belief of an immortal soul next time. You can title your video: The Trinity and Pagan Greek philosophy. And perhaps make a seperate video for the philosophy of an immortal soul (you can also include Egyptian and Babylonian philosophy). Here's a searchterm for youtube to get you started: Trinity Doctrine, A False Teaching Of Man, Council of Nicaea And for google: The Apologists-Christian Defenders or Would-Be Philosophers The Paradox of Tertullian

I've done similar things with my college classes here and there - some college classes are in a seminar format that primarily incorporate a method like this with even more discussion from students than you're seeing here.

Gerðarr Garðisson - Very good use of the word paedagogy in Greek!

+Logan Sloan Thanks! I did things a little differently with this one by recording class but it seems to have gone over well enough.

20:26 -- that was a GIGANTIC water bottle

+joeseph rusty roque simbulan Glad to hear it!

These are such kind words! Thank you!

@@tomrichey it was a pleasure to learn from you, sir. you really widened my perspective towards life which was already widened some by the efforts I've been making through the last years. I'm looking forward to learn more from your videos in the future.

This lecture was recorded in front of an honors-level high school audience. Many of these students will take college credit courses next year while still in high school. I have given the same lecture to university audiences and I think it's totally appropriate for a survey level university course.

Tom Richey Thank you very much for your answer. I have watched many for your videos and I must say they are very helpful to me. I study architecture and many books were written like readers suppose to know these things already, which I didn't. For example, what relativism is. Anyway, I want to say thank you and I like your style of teaching.

+matt ramo I have not given up, but have been focusing on Modern European History for the past few years. I plan to focus on US History this year but I hope to continue to pepper my channel with classical history and philosophy now and then because the Greeks and Romans are my favorite.

+Tom Richey Thanks for your answer ! I hope you will have the time to pepper it ! Clear and structured courses on antic philosophy lack on this platform. Good luck with US history !

I'm generally a big fan of Wikipedia, but it's not the end all be all. If you read the descriptions there more thoroughly - or if you go browse some other websites - you'll see that the substance of what I'm saying is correct. Good of you as a student not to simply trust the definitions I throw out there, though. A true student always inquires and verifies!

yes i verified it and found the answer and later saw again ur video and found u r correct thank u

Tom Richey i felt guilty later about the question i asked, in a way i acted like a sophist when i realised my mistake

No need to feel guilty! I enjoy the company of a sophist now and then! Haha

KUMAR Academy - Strictly speaking, ‘philia’ did not express the sentiment of “brotherly love”. This is a modern interpretation of the word influenced by the Quaker concept of love for one’s fellow man as for a brother. However, the early Quakers knew enough Greek to understand that the term originally meant friendship; after all, their autonym (the name they gave themselves) was “Friends”, or “The Society of Friends” (not to be confused with the revolutionary early 19th century Greek ‘Society of Friends’ or Philike Hetaireia/Filiki Etaireia). Think about it : if philia was used in that context it would have been redundant to name the ‘city of brotherly love’ Philadelphia (philia=love; adelphos=brother). If ‘philia’ was “brotherly love”, it would have been sufficient for William Penn to simply name his newly founded town ‘Philia’, ‘Philiopolis’, or something to that effect. Ironically, the American city was named after an Ancient Greek town in Asia Minor that got its name under entirely different circumstances...( there were a number of Hellenistic cities named Philadelphia including the aforementioned city in Turkey, famous as one of the original Seven Christian Churches addressed in the Pauline Epistles; and Amman, the capital of Jordan, whose original Greek name was Philadelphia). No; the nearest approximations in English of the sentiment expressed by the Ancient Greek ‘philia’ are perhaps, ‘virtuous friendship’, ‘moral unity’, ‘close affinity’, ‘altruistic love’, ‘cordial fidelity’, ‘loyal bond’, and the like. “Affectionate friendship”, and “love between equals”, which you cite from Wikipedia, are also quite acceptable. “True friendship” (in the most morally elevated sense) is probably the best translation. Incidentally, the Greek language has preserved the original meaning of the term: in Modern Greek philia/filia simply denotes close friendship - and, to make things more confusing still, philia/filia (phili/fili, sing; - with the accent on the last syllable instead of the penult) somewhat bizarrely, has also come to mean kiss/kisses! 💋 💋 💋 Seen another way, the “love” signified by ‘philosophia’ (“love of wisdom) -if we may be permitted an analogy comparing the prosaic to the sublime- is the kind of love in current colloquial usage which expresses the idea of favouring, or being irresistibly drawn, to something pleasant: as in, “I love ❤️ curry Madras, yellow dahl, saffron biryani,🍛and tandoori nan 🥙!”.

Sounds like I will have to deliver!

Tom, your mission... should you choose to accept it....

Thank you so much for these kind words!

philosophy is an entry class and its easy i passed with an A and went drunk/faded 90% of the time......college is a waste my professors all had emotional biases and were low key insulting my intelligence based off the statements they made about my culture and race being less inferior than white civillization, I would agree but they all think bernie the crime bills king loves minorities

Derek Durie - 😂 Good one.☝️

+Voy Koloni More like The Talented Mr Richey!

Glad to hear it! It's an honor to be able to help a fellow teacher. As for W, definitely not in my "fave five," so to speak... but then again, the current president is not anywhere in that ballpark, either!

LOL

thats racist..if i called obama curious george wouldnt you be outraged????

Thanks, but you're a dog

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Thanks! We'll see if they ever feel the same way.

I'm sure if he were in haward, haward would certainly yale. hahaha. Couldn't help myself.

Eli you’re great and cracked my shit up