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  • Plato - Apology

    Plato - Apology
    2026/06/05
    Roger introduces Plato's Apology as a gateway into the foundational root of the entire Western philosophical tradition. At the heart of this lecture is Socrates standing trial for his life before the city of Athens — delivering not an apology in the modern sense, but a fearless defense of the philosophic life. Guided by an inner divine voice since childhood and charged by the Delphic Oracle as the wisest of men, Socrates spent his life exposing the ignorance of politicians, poets, and craftsmen out of a deep religious duty to awaken Athens to the truth that real wisdom belongs to God alone. Drawing on Pythagorean roots, the nature of imagination and memory, and the Socratic practice of inquiry as spiritual transformation, Weir illuminates why Socrates remains the single root source from which all of Western education and philosophy ultimately flows.

    This presentation by Roger Weir was delivered on January 4, 1990.

    More information about these presentations can be found at
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/platos-theory-of-education
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato-ii

    More presentations by Roger Weir are available at the Shared Presence Foundation website and on our YouTube channel
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    1 時間 20 分
  • Timaeus 2 - Presentation 13

    Timaeus 2 - Presentation 13
    2024/03/18
    This presentation was originally delivered by Roger Weir on March 28, 1991.

    This series is a basic introduction to a major root of the entire Western Philosophic Tradition. This is a rare opportunity to survey an essential heritage. We will follow the translations in the Collected Dialogues of Plato, Bollingen Series LXXI, Princeton University Press. These Dialogues also appear in the Penguin Classics Editions: Phaedrus & Letters VII and VIII, Philebus, Early Socratic Dialogues, Timaeus and Critias.

    More information about these presentations can be found at
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/platos-theory-of-education
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato-ii

    More presentations by Roger Weir are available at the Shared Presence Foundation website and on our YouTube channel
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    1 時間 17 分
  • Timaeus 1 - Presentation 12

    Timaeus 1 - Presentation 12
    2024/03/15
    This presentation was originally delivered by Roger Weir on March 21, 1991.

    This series is a basic introduction to a major root of the entire Western Philosophic Tradition. This is a rare opportunity to survey an essential heritage. We will follow the translations in the Collected Dialogues of Plato, Bollingen Series LXXI, Princeton University Press. These Dialogues also appear in the Penguin Classics Editions: Phaedrus & Letters VII and VIII, Philebus, Early Socratic Dialogues, Timaeus and Critias.

    More information about these presentations can be found at
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/platos-theory-of-education
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato-ii

    More presentations by Roger Weir are available at the Shared Presence Foundation website and on our YouTube channel
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    1 時間 14 分
  • Phaedrus 2 - Presentation 11

    Phaedrus 2 - Presentation 11
    2024/03/12
    This presentation was originally delivered by Roger Weir on March 14, 1991.

    This series is a basic introduction to a major root of the entire Western Philosophic Tradition. This is a rare opportunity to survey an essential heritage. We will follow the translations in the Collected Dialogues of Plato, Bollingen Series LXXI, Princeton University Press. These Dialogues also appear in the Penguin Classics Editions: Phaedrus & Letters VII and VIII, Philebus, Early Socratic Dialogues, Timaeus and Critias.

    More information about these presentations can be found at
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/platos-theory-of-education
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato-ii

    More presentations by Roger Weir are available at the Shared Presence Foundation website and on our YouTube channel
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    1 時間 25 分
  • Phaedrus 1 - Presentation 10

    Phaedrus 1 - Presentation 10
    2024/03/09
    This presentation was delivered by Roger Weir on March 7, 1991.

    This series is a basic introduction to a major root of the entire Western Philosophic Tradition. This is a rare opportunity to survey an essential heritage. We will follow the translations in the Collected Dialogues of Plato, Bollingen Series LXXI, Princeton University Press. These Dialogues also appear in the Penguin Classics Editions: Phaedrus & Letters VII and VIII, Philebus, Early Socratic Dialogues, Timaeus and Critias.

    More information about these presentations can be found at
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/platos-theory-of-education
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato-ii

    More presentations by Roger Weir are available at the Shared Presence Foundation website and on our YouTube channel
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    1 時間 29 分
  • Cratylus - Presentation 9

    Cratylus - Presentation 9
    2024/03/06
    This presentation was originally delivered by Roger Weir on February 28, 1991.

    This series is a basic introduction to a major root of the entire Western Philosophic Tradition. This is a rare opportunity to survey an essential heritage. We will follow the translations in the Collected Dialogues of Plato, Bollingen Series LXXI, Princeton University Press. These Dialogues also appear in the Penguin Classics Editions: Phaedrus & Letters VII and VIII, Philebus, Early Socratic Dialogues, Timaeus and Critias.

    More information about these presentations can be found at
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/platos-theory-of-education
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato-ii

    More presentations by Roger Weir are available at the Shared Presence Foundation website and on our YouTube channel
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    1 時間 29 分
  • Critias - Presentation 8

    Critias - Presentation 8
    2024/03/03
    This presentation was originally delivered on February 14, 1991 by Roger Weir.

    This series is a basic introduction to a major root of the entire Western Philosophic Tradition. This is a rare opportunity to survey an essential heritage. We will follow the translations in the Collected Dialogues of Plato, Bollingen Series LXXI, Princeton University Press. These Dialogues also appear in the Penguin Classics Editions: Phaedrus & Letters VII and VIII, Philebus, Early Socratic Dialogues, Timaeus and Critias.

    More information about these presentations can be found at
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/platos-theory-of-education
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato-ii

    More presentations by Roger Weir are available at the Shared Presence Foundation website and on our YouTube channel
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    1 時間 24 分
  • Plato II - Philebus

    Plato II - Philebus
    2024/02/29
    In this lecture on Plato's Philebus, one of his last and deepest dialogues, Socrates debates the young hedonists Philebus and Protarchus over whether the good life is one of pleasure or one of intelligence, while quietly steering toward a hidden structure beneath the question: the Pythagorean pairs of limit and unlimited, and the divine mind that is their source. The lecture follows how Socrates tests the young men's ability to take the next step in an argument, restating the question when their arrogance and quibbling cause it to collapse, and shows why philosophic inquiry is the only alternative to babbling. It ends with the puzzle of the one and the many and the story of Thoth discerning the alphabet, which reveals that mastering a finite structure is the key to recollecting the mind's deeper powers.

    More information about these presentations can be found at
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/platos-theory-of-education
    https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato-ii

    More presentations by Roger Weir are available at the Shared Presence Foundation website and on our YouTube channel
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    1 時間 21 分