Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. - Rumi

dead for 2500 years and still teach you a lesson

It's actually freaking crazy how relevant his thoughts and ideas are today, 2500 years later.

"the problems is, popular opinions edge us towards the wrong values, careers and relationships".

The more I seem to understand, the more I see the wrongs with the world.

Philosophy is the most fascinating subject.

Plato: Our society's rolemodels should be wise and good people. Our society:

philosophy is so interesting to me and I wish I had someone in my life who I could have a deep conversation with about it. I just want an intellectual conversation with someone who’s just as passionate as I am edit: I don’t know if anyone will see this but I’d like to thank everyone for all of the replies you have given me

imagine if Plato saw nowadays' celebrities...he would drop dead on the spot from heart attack.

you saved me from failing my political philosophy class. i was literally crying the night before my exam because nothing was going into my brain when i found you guys' channel, and binge watched everything until 3am. the animation really helped me remember the information since i am an extremely visual learner. read through my own notes multiple times on the bus ride to school, went into my 9am exam the same morning and passed with flying colours. thank you school of life.

1 - Think More 2 - Let your lover change you 3 - Decode the message of beauty 4 - Reform society

Plato's favorite words of wisdom are "We become what we contemplate"

It's really amazing how little society has changed since Ancient fucking Greece.

Thank you for educating the world for free!

everything he said is soo damn true how can someone be so accurate, soo intelligent in understanding human behaviour, not even modern philosophers are this good.

" It really matters who we admire, because they influence our outlook, ideas and bad conduct. And bad heroes give glamour to flaws of character " I fucking love this.

What a great and wise human being... Don't mind me, I'm just an obsessed fan on the internet...

The more I learn the more I become aware of how less I know.

Love this. Corona lockdown brought me here.

"know yourself" "if you strengthen your self knowledge, you don't get so pulled around by feelings." thanks a lot! this video gave me so much courage & motivation.

I still like Socrates more. He was a stubborn old jerk who literally killed himself to make a point.

These are the videos that honestly show how great and powerful a tool UKposts can be.

How eagerly I want to bring people like Plato back from the dead, just to hear them speak...

Honestly... I love videos like these for the comments under them. It's one of the few times you could say that about youtube videos. Enlightened, polite and apologetic if things get heated. Looking on some other "entertainment" or "brainless" videos there is nothing but hate, insecurity and bile going on. Refreshing to watch something so rich, and then to see the intelligence in the comment section just makes me happy.

It's amazing how Plato's philosophy is so relevant to our modern society.

Notes 00:30 Udaimomia - Fulfilment. Ideas 1:00 Think more. Against following emotion and popular opinion. 2:05 Let your lover change you. True love is admiration. 3:10 Decode nature of beauty. 4:05 Reform society. Role models and guardians. Democracy for thinkers.

I'm a inquisitive person, always have random stuff in my head. Today I learn what philosophy is. This is truly amazing. My 2021 resolution is to learn more about philosophy. Hope I can learn more stuff.

**scrolls down** **sees essays** **scolls back up**

I very much appreciate these videos.

2500 years later, these men are still teaching us life lessons That's how you know they were great

I’m going through a very rough time with a girl. It’s on the edge and I’ve lost my confidence as a man. I don’t know where to turn. But this popped up and I’ll take it as a sign. I will study Plato. And all other Greek philosophers to find my path.

I love this video. But just platonically, of course.

How do I double like this video? Plato was awesome!

I really enjoy learning about Plato studied his teaching back in college and still some of the best lessons I have kept over the years.

Plato's wisdom still resonates through society nearly 2500 years later. Amazing how little times have changed. Technology and ideology might have changed, but the individual certainly has not.

Maybe I should watch this every morning with coffee! True love is admiration!

I have began to translate the english subtitles to Bulgarian, but my work has not been approved. There is no way i could assure you of the quality my deed provides, though given the nature of my exotic native language i doubt that someone more capable of harnesting the beauty of your words would appear. I would love to proceed towards translating all of your videos and sharing them with my relatives and friends.

I'm waiting for the day this video gets a billion views. I would die in peace after that.

Who else has watched The Good Place? I was just thinking that Chidi and Eleanor’s relationship is exactly Plato’s idea of letting your lover change you. Both characters made each other a better version of themselves. Chidi made Eleanor aware of her selfishness which caused her to change and Eleanor made Chidi aware of his indecisiveness which caused him to change. At the end of the series they were both better people than they started out as. I just think that it’s a really nice touch that the writers included this type of relationship as they discussed philosophy a lot in the show.

Great lesson! Thank you! Watching the part about the Socratic discussion I remembered an interview Rebecca Goldstein gave to Robert Pollie . She is the writer of the book: "Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away". She said that Socrates believed in "lived conversation" for very profound reasons: One of the things we have to do in order to maximise our coherence is to see the "hidden assumptions" that are so deep down in our thinking. So deep down that they're invisible to us and the only way to bring them fore is in the argumentation. She said this must be the reason why Plato wrote Soctares' thoughts in form of dialogues. May be there is one thing that bothered me a bit in the lesson. That thought about ugliness can be dangerous. Poor Elephant Man, Quasimodo, Cyrano de Bergerac... They were all very ugly at first sight but they were such beautiful people indeed... And may be the last thought about the philosophers being the ideal leaders. I wish it was true... But as we know "the best and the brightest" created a lot of evil too, when they got into power. Well, but may be they were not philosophically well equipped. Outside of the academia I mean. In real life. Since there are many intellectuals who aren't wise at all. Thanks a lot to everybody who work on these videos!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who loves philosophy. It's kind of sad that people call it useless (like going to school to study it) when it has so many great values and things we could learn. And it doesn't make it easier to like it when you're a teenager and God forbid you like anything different or intellectual. I've found my fellow nerds.

This series of videos is excellent. Thanks so much for bringing ancient philosophy to life!

My favorite philosopher of all time, and one of my favorite people in history.

Think more is probably the opposite to popular opinion these days. People seem to think that thinking more complicates things. However, the complication doesn't arise from thinking rather just letting your mind through whatever it receives from the external world and allowing the emotions those thoughts create to take a hold of you, in many ways the exact opposite of thinking consciously. Lovely watch!

I'm here taking notes lol

this is absolutely beautiful it really spoke to me and almost shed a tear, definitely have to read more of his works!

I remember this video was what started my journey of reading Philosophy books. And I know for a fact that I’m not in any sort of trouble because of it, that was around 6 years ago and this Channel helped in the process. Thank you!!

never in the history of mankind has so many been educated so quickly, thanks to the internet and sources of knowledge

This new crop of videos over the past couple of months has been brilliant. The investment of time and effort is unmistakably clear. Thank you for these - I find myself re-watching them several times.

This! This right here is why I miss the old days of school of life. It gave you the tools to start exploring life.

2022 I am 17 and glad to know this great Person.The faster you learn the faster you can apply.

2400 years and we still can't fucking figure it out. What hope do we have.

Thank you for the picture of the bridge. It rarely happens that people make you aware of the fact that "technical" objects can be beautiful too, when they are well-made.

Looking at the discussion in the comment section,I am proud that this channel succeeded.Keep it up people.

Its really beautiful that such people lived on our planet... Cant describe it really

A very modern thinker, very interesting.

he be turning in his grave if he knew how the gov is now

We need 'A Plato' now..... A person with morals, boundaries, high, but attainable standards. Thinkers, as is pointed out... Nothing has changed since his era...It made me smile!! Thankyou for this wisdom and insight into a historic person of such great values... Oct. 2021.

This is such a brilliant video, my sincere gratitude for posting this. I decided to deep dive into philosophy and just in a couple of days it really change how I think. I’m looking forward to learn from your playlist. Thank you so much

Plato must be proud of such a thing as the school of life :)

This was one of the best youtube content ever for me , thank you

I've been searching and asking myself about what subject I love the most, and when I learned about this, at one glance, I knew this is the one.

Even in university did someone explained plato so well. thank you you helped a lot with a project greek school needs this video ugh they dont teach us all of these

Greetings from Greece!Γνώθι σ'αυτόν!

Tanmay brought me here . It's amazing. I love channels like these which are informative

Love those videos. They help me now, when we have distance learning and they make me interested in philosophy. love them

Plato...how we need you and your guidance more than ever right now. We would be fulfilled if our world lived by his philosophy. Democracy has not worked when can we say let's try something else. Companies rebrand and reinvent themselves all the time, is it time for us to do something different? I am tired of what is going on around the world, its depressing, exhausting, and I just want peace and happiness for everyone. I believe plato would have wanted that. Keep hope alive😊!

im 18 and i believe one of the biggest flaws of our generation is making fun of the people trying to achieve platonic ''outopia'' ,or infact anything fundamentally different than what we are used to. as nietzsche quoted ''the surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.''

I think empathy should be the main engine in every aspect of our lives. I also believe that when the lessons that life provides us teach us something to be able to learn a little bit about ourselves, it is always good. I wish you all a beautiful and wonderful apprenticeship on the path of existence.❤

Easily my favorite playlist/videos by this channel.

Philosophy is a fascinating subject. I really wish I had people with whom i can have an intellectual conversation. Thoughts exchanged with thoughts, new ideas with new ideas.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Omg i thought id get bored but that was amazing. Truly eye-opening

Great rendition. I am always fascinated by platoes philosophy.

Love the concepts of reality, painful in delusions of programed thinking or thought fulfilled with Gratefulness & Pleasure just for the simple things like a rainbow, sunset or a full moon over the ocean of life. Its up to everyone. One big ocean of humans. :) Loved this mans books growing up, He made perfect sense. Think For Yourself. Take advise but think for Yourself. Peace, Love & Light!

Thank you, it was really interesting

Me - I want more knowledge in less time The school of life - come with me❤️ Thankuuu

Well said. Plato is one of my favourite philosophers.

This video was ahead of its time.

I m in love with philosophy it's one of the subject which is full of curiosity and full of the thoughts the opinion, the method of perceiving knowledge ,

Plato’s books need to be in schools and on every students desk.

Wow!! What a profound video. Thank you so much for enlightening us.

1st time ever I m satisfied with the definition of beauty and love .

"It really matters who we admire because celebrities influence our outlook, ideas and conduct and bad heroes give glamour to flaws of character." Know thy enemy?

This video is phenomenal. Exceptionally well put together and explained to perfection. Great stuff

"Celebrities influence our outlook, ideas and conduct and bad heroes give glamour to flaws of character" Very good quote.

Man was ahead of our time when coming up with self love

How do you make a video on Plato and not mention the world of forms but instead choosing to focus on his relationship advice?

This video taught me much more than school ever has!

Thank You, The School of Life !

“The more you talk, the more things sound the same” - En Vogue, ‘My Lovin’

Hatts off to his editing man it's really amazing

Plato's philosophy is timeless and still so relevant today. It's amazing how his ideas about justice, truth, and the ideal society still resonate with us thousands of years later. As he said, 'Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.' Let's strive to be wise and seek truth like Plato did.

i so much like his philosophy of life bcs it makes sence to me and everytime i question smth i found that he talked abt it

“The world will not be right until Kings become Philosophers”

Plato was an Idealist, a common philosophy today. He heeds good messages for how to improve your life through education and rational thought that can often seem missing in modern idealism. Idealism is optimistic in nature, but is not optimism. Many Idealists devote a lot of time to the more negative aspects of life, helping them to grow into their ideals of making themselves, their relationships or the world a better place. This is necessary, for an Idealist to realize their ideals they must question+investigate what's needed for them and how or even if they can actually come together. Here's a message from me to any Idealists out there: The simplest things matter in making improvements, even if they aren't the ideal itself.

This sounds like something I could I written myself. I have the exact mind set. I guess I need to buy some books! :)

Crazy how relevant this still is now and still how far society has to go to be able to even feel that we are close to Plato's ideal society

It's within us all, I'm so thankful this is here

thank you for Portuguese subtitles.