Roger Weir

Plato

History EN ↓ Epizody: 27

This series is a basic introduction to a major root source of the entire Western Philosophic Tradition. This is a rare opportunity to survey an essential heritage. We will follow the translations in the Collected Dialogues of Plato, Bollingen Series LXXI, Princeton University Press. This collection of presentations was delivered by Roger Weir in 1990 and 1991. More information about these presentations can be found at https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/platos-theory-of-education https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presen...

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Roger Weir

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5. čvn 2026

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Epizody

Plato - Gorgias 16.12.2023 1:26:02

In this presentation, Roger explores Plato's Gorgias, in which Socrates confronts Gorgias, the most celebrated teacher of rhetoric in the ancient world, in a clash between two opposed visions of speech and truth. Weir reveals how Socrates pioneers a new form of consciousness—a method of dialogue built on sequential inquiry and demonstrable truth—standing in stark contrast to rhetoric's mastery of...

Plato - Phaedo 13.12.2023 1:28:55

In this presentation, Roger Weir guides us through Plato's Phaedo — one of the most celebrated dialogues in all of Western philosophy — recounting the final hours of Socrates' life as witnessed by his closest companions on the day of his death. Rather than following a simple line of argument, Weir reveals how Plato's dialogue unfolds as a masterful Pythagorean sequencing of pattern and insight, we...