MoL-3B Meaning of Life in Plato's Republic
Channel: Math 4 Wisdom
Date: 2023-11-29

How does the meaning of life come together in Plato's Republic?  I continue with this series about the meaning of life as expressed in a language of cognitive frameworks, Wondrous Wisdom.  Here is the playlist on the meaning of life:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQjtHkBz4KE&list=PL4jG0jj6NdI2WR5HnlATnGKyQ5sAxrxKI&pp=gAQBiAQB

0:30 Review from previous episodes.
1:50 Plato's Republic has three castes (Subjects, Warriors, Rulers) which accord with being, doing, thinking and with Unconscious, Conscious, Consciousness.
3:40 All three castes should have Moderation. Warriors and Rulers should have Courage. Rulers should also have Wisdom.
4:30 A diagram that overviews Plato's four levels of knowledge and how they relate to the three castes and their values.
5:10 Wondrous Wisdom: Foursome relates four levels of knowledge: Whether, What, How, Why. Their relation to the Unconscious, Conscious and Consciousness.
7:40 I drew the Foursome from Plato's Republic when I read it in 1982.  
8:30 In Wondrous Wisdom, we let go of our experience as much as possible, just as in physics we simplify the situation as much as we can.
9:25 Relating Whether, What, How, Why.
11:00 Plato. The allegory of the cave. 
14:50 Relationships with knowledge. The Sun makes Becoming visible, likewise the Good makes Being intelligible. Perception of Shadows, Conviction, Understanding, Wisdom.  
22:20 Comparative evaluation of knowledge levels: Ignorance, (changeable) false opinion, (indelible) true opinion, wisdom.
26:00 Virtue, enabled by knowledge, reflecting and fostering harmony of knowledge. Justice, moderation, courage, wisdom. Relating them to being, doing, thinking.
31:50 Summary. The politics of the faculties of the mind. Why Consciousness should govern.
34:40 In a future video I will present Version 2.0 whereby the structure is reorganized based on how we experience it. We experience Wisdom as What, the feeling of Beauty. We experience Moderation as Why there is Justice - a well disciplined Unconscious. Unconscious needs to be loved.
37:45 Summary diagram of Plato's system. Being, doing, thinking can be permuted to get St.Paul's and Andrius's systems. 
38:40 Previewing: St.Paul's Hymn to Love. Partial knowledge (in faith and hope) and full knowledge (in love). Love as our unity cohering with all.
40:45 Previewing: Distinguishing positive emotion, virtue, internal perspective, external perspective. Renaming terms: Wisdom as Beauty.
43:00 Virtue resonates from Positive Emotion. We set that up by interalizing perspectives.
44:15 Permuting the virtues: courage, hope, honesty.
44:55 Value system permutations: Plato, St.Paul, Andrius. 
47:50 Future episodes. 
48:05 Thank you! Prayer for harmony.

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