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Films based on the allegory of the cave by Plato. In the allegory, Plato describes people who have spent their lives chained in a cave and facing a blank wall. They watch shadows projected onto the wall by objects passing in front of a fire behind them, and they give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality but not ...
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During the film many excerpts from some of Plato's famous Dialogues are presented, including Hippias major, Euthyphron, Republic, Crito, Socrates' Apology and Phaedo. There are also some explicit quotations, by a detractor of Socrates, of The Clouds , the comedy of Aristophanes in which the philosopher is described as a scoundrel, expert in ...
Plato's Academy (Greek: Ακαδημία Πλάτωνος) is a 2009 Greek-German comedy-drama film directed by Filippos Tsitos, starring Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Anastas Kozdine, Titika Saringouli, Giorgos Souxes , Kostas Koronaios, Panayiotis Stamatakis and Maria Zorba.
The Ring of Gyges / ˈ dʒ aɪ ˌ dʒ iː z / (Ancient Greek: Γύγου Δακτύλιος, Gúgou Daktúlios, Attic Greek pronunciation: [ˈɡyːˌɡoː dakˈtylios]) is a hypothetical magic ring mentioned by the philosopher Plato in Book 2 of his Republic (2:359a–2:360d). [1]
Plato was one of the first essentialists, postulating the concept of ideal forms—an abstract entity of which individual objects are mere facsimiles. To give an example: the ideal form of a circle is a perfect circle, something that is physically impossible to make manifest; yet the circles we draw and observe clearly have some idea in common ...
Some of the course materials produced by The Teaching Company, July 2013 A former company logo. The Teaching Company, doing business as "The Great Courses," formerly Wondrium, is a media production company which produces educational, video, and audio content in the form of courses, documentaries, and series under two content brands: The Great Courses Plus and The Great Courses. [1]