Plato’s best (and worst) ideas - Wisecrack

Of course he had some bad ideas. After all, Plato was just an imperfect replication of the perfect philosopher.

Imagine being Plato's voice actor and being hired by TED-Ed to a studio just to spend hours just saying "Ooooh" "Ooooooh" "Hmm" "Ohhh" into a microphone

"Plato deliberately made those outright bad ideas just so to prove his point that he is an imperfect replication of a perfect philosopher"

Diogenes: "Behold Plato's man!" holds up plucked chicken. Plato: "'Men', Diogenes. I see two of you..." Plato, the comeback king...

"BEHOLD, PLATO'S MAN!" awesome how centuries later that's still hilarious.

Diogenes: history's first and greatest troll. One time, Alexander the Great came to visit Diogenes and found him relaxing in the sun. Alexander asked Diogenes if there was anything he wanted from him; Diogenes said he just wanted Alexander to move so he wasn't blocking the sun. Imagine that for a second: the most powerful man in the known world comes up to you and offers a favor and you reply, "Yeah, could you move a little to the right? I'm trying to work on my tan."

rubs my leg Person:What are you doing? Me:I'm pregnant Person:Oh congrats

I feel the animation doesn’t pay justice to the fact that Plato was absolutely jacked. Absolutely rippled.

"Behold! Plato's Man!" Apply cold water directly to burn. That is really going out of your way to make a point, I can tell Diogenes woke up angry, justifiably so I'd say. "I am not a chicken damn it!" I can hear him saying it now...

"Behold! Plato's man!" I was like "OOOOHHH!!!"

I feel like the whole "featherless biped" thing could be interpreted symbolically. One of humanity's most distinctive features is our freedom of choice, that we can choose to become more (or less) than our base instincts dictate. Traditionally, freedom is associated with birds due to their ability of flight, and they were considered closer to the heavens where the gods resided. In that case, it's possible humans are featherless bipeds not in the literal sense, but in the idea that we can come close to the heavens, but not ever truly reach it.

Fun fact: Plato (Πλάτων) means Broad in Greek, refering to his broad shoulders and wide back, as he was a Beastly weightlifter as well.

After Diogenes' incident with the chicken, Plato then added the criteria "with broad, flat nails" to his definition of man

Ah Diogenes... The only person who could perfectly refute Plato so succinctly. Deface the coinage!

I'm disappointed no one in the comments pointed out that his beard in the thumbnail looks like teeth

This is like the most cliff notes high school overview of Plato's work ever... There is nothing overtly wrong but it's like saying Lord of the Rings is about two little people who go on a long walk... It's not wrong but it's so reductive it might as well be

Theoretically there must be a perfect comment for every video.

plato in spanish means plate

I interpret Plato's definition of humans as follows: The desire of any bird is to fly and go beyond. As any human might desire to go farther, achieve the skies, and think more deeply, but still finds limitations to such burning in its inner heart we can be compared to a bird without feathers to fly.

I've still yet to find a better rivalry than Plato and Diogenes. Their battles are epic