Understanding the World of Plato – Discourses on Minerva

In this lecture, we explore and examine Plato’s philosophy and explain how to avoid common mistakes when reading and interpreting Plato. In this talk, we cover the theory of the forms and the cosmos, Plato politics as an opponent of tyranny (against Karl Popper’s interpretation of Plato), why Plato doesn’t advocate world flight, and the meaning of the soul in the world.

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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous journals, magazines, and newspapers. He is the author of Muses of a Fire, Finding Arcadia, The Odyssey of Love and the Politics of Plato, and a contributor to the College Lecture Today and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters. He holds master’s degrees in philosophy and religious studies (biblical studies & theology) from the University of Buckingham and Yale, and a bachelor’s degree in economics, history, and philosophy from Baldwin Wallace University.

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