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Plato II - Phaedrus Chariot

Plato II - Phaedrus Chariot

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 In this presentation on Plato's unfinished Critias, the myth of Atlantis is read not as a travel-brochure fairy tale, as many introductions treat it, but as a philosophical allegory. The dialogue is the second part of a trilogy with the Timaeus, and its lost third part, the Hermocrates, would have completed it. It contrasts ancient Athens, a society of inner freedom, memory, and self-discovery, with Atlantis, a rigid, authoritarian order built around Poseidon's unchangeable law code and the sacrificial rituals of its ten kings. The lecture shows how Plato calls on memory and Pythagorean discipline to loosen the grip of mythic images and sloppy language. It then connects the dialogue to the mythic gods of Plato's own Athens and to the ongoing struggle between individual freedom and imposed tyranny.

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https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato
https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/platos-theory-of-education
https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato-ii

More presentations by Roger Weir are available at the Shared Presence Foundation website and on our YouTube channel
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