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Plato’s Republic, Book 1, Reflecting on Old Age, Morality, and Justice

How were the traumas of the Peloponnesian Wars, which Athens recently lost, and in which a sizable portion of the population perished, and the ruinous rule of the Thirty Tyrants put in place by the victorious Spartans, reflected in the first book of Plato’s Republic? How did Cephalus reconcile himself with his advanced age and mortality? Can wealth pacify the gods? Does might make right? Is morality always preferable, or is it championed by fools? Does success imply virtue? Does Plato’s Republic seek justice? Does it seek morality? To understand the Platonic dialogues, we need to understand the Peloponnesian Wars, which Athens lost to Sparta shortly before the composition of the dialogues, and the history of the Thirty Tyrants who were installed by Sparta, and who were overthrown for their blood thirsty tyranny. Summary of the Peloponnesian Wars Between Athens and Sparta https://seekingvirtueandwisdom.com/su...    • Summary of Peloponnesian Wars: Reflecting ...   For more interesting videos, please click to subscribe to our YouTube Channel:    / @reflectionsmph   Shortcut:    / @reflectionsmph   Script for this video: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/... Blog for this video, with links for books and lectures: https://seekingvirtueandwisdom.com/pl... © Copyright 2025 Please support our channel by purchasing the books we discuss from Amazon, we receive a small associate’s commission: The Republic, by Plato, Robin Waterfield, translator https://amzn.to/49huXHz We also reflect on: • Whether the Republic is more concerned with morality than with justice. • What we learn from the dialogue with Cephalus on aging. • What roles Socrates, Polemarchus, Lysias, Glaucon, Adeimantus, Cleitophon, Niceratus, Nicias, Lysander, Crito, and King Pausanias played in the wars and under the Thirty Tyrants. • Differences between translations of Platonic dialogues by Benjamin Jowett and Robin Waterfield. • Greek poets Pindar and Simonides, and the Sophist Thrasymachus, and the Stoic Epictetus. • St Augustine and On Christian Doctrine, and teaching of St John Climacus, author of Ladder of Divine Ascent. • Examples from Nazi Germany and Vichy France. • Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Please support our efforts, be a patron, at:   / seekingvirtueandwisdom   Patrons can participate in online Zoom discussions of draft presentations we prepare for future YouTube videos. As Socrates teaches us, the examined life is a life worth living. We would be fools if we did not desire to learn from our multitude of friends whose words live in the works of the classics that have survived from past centuries and millennia. The Stoic and moral philosophers of Greece and Rome saw philosophy as an evangelical enterprise, seeking to spread the joy of living a godly life for its own sake. Our projects include: Studying the teachings of the ancient and modern stoic and moral philosophers on how to better lead a godly life. Studying ancient and modern history to learn moral lessons and learn how we can successfully live a life of faith in trying times, including civil rights and social gospel history. Studying issues of morality in the Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Jewish traditions. Everyone should join and participate in their local church. However, my internet persona is purposefully obscure so that I can be respectful of all genuine Judeo-Christian traditions, I do not wish to be disrespectfully polemical. This is original content based on research by Bruce Strom and his blogs. Images in the Public Domain, many from Wikipedia, some from the National Archives, are selected to provide illustration. When images of the actual topic or event are not available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects and events are used for illustration. All events are portrayed in historical context and for educational purposes. No images or content are primarily intended to shock and disgust. The ancient world was a warrior culture out of necessity, to learn from the distant past we should not only judge them from our modern perspective but also from their own ancient perspective on their own terms.