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R7 The Cave | Plato's Republic, book 7 w/ Ben Morison

Ancient Greece Declassified

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The Difference Between Coming and Being

In order to do geometry, you have to look away from that triangle that's on the per and start doing geometry with the mind. Bhut when you're doing ethics likewise,you have to kind of stop just looking at the behaviour of people around you,. You have to go one step further and think about what principles govern that behavior. And this distinction between coming and being is really crucial to plato, and it goes back all the way to the prisocratic philosophers.

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