Eugen Weber was a historian of Modern Europe but he was also a brilliant student of the Greek and Latin Classics. He belonged to a generation that learned to read before taking a Ph.D. Absolutely wonderful-thank you for posting.

@davidtrindle6473

5 жыл бұрын

Dorian Philotheates 😄funny!

@dorianphilotheates3769

5 жыл бұрын

Marcos 989 - Yes. (1925-2007).

@lokmanmerican6889

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for identifying the speaker, Eugene Weber.

@dorianphilotheates3769

4 жыл бұрын

Lokman Merican - Eugen Weber (pronounced, ‘Oi’- gehn Vay’- bah). You’re welcome.

@iceblinkmender

2 жыл бұрын

no actually this dude is crap.

Being a Assistant Professor of Political Science this 24 min Video is like precious treasure.

@citizenY

3 жыл бұрын

Because your education didn't bring you any "education" at all?

@plopets

3 жыл бұрын

is there many left leaning/democrats taking that class?

@citizenY

3 жыл бұрын

@Mike Hansen 👀

@citizenY

3 жыл бұрын

@Mike Hansen alrighty then go on and define the word. Nobody else can. Surprise me. I am patient.... ... ..... .... .... ... .. .. . . . .

@citizenY

3 жыл бұрын

@Mike Hansen whas the holdup? English your second language¿ ("educated" guess.... from your sentence structure😂)

..wisdom could be taught even to the poorest or the humblest.. If there's anything I've learnt is that the humblest are humble for a reason.. wisdom

@bethbartlett5692

5 жыл бұрын

Wisom is achieved with Conscious Thought - "with a Standard of Truths and Ethics" - When one ponders this - the alternative being Human Ego Mind - the Adolescent Mind - regardless that this appears among Adults - one can recognize the Judgemental Ego in a plague across Public Comment Venues - Mature Mind is of Conscious Thought and when education is applied - Wisdom grows Roots... 💫

@albertbrennaman5605

5 жыл бұрын

Humility represents (intended or not) a strategy to prevent yourself from making foolish mistakes. By delineating your own ignorance, limitations or motivation (etc.) you nip any criticism against your position in the bud, by cutting off the possibility that your own arrogance can spin a web of morally indignant self-delusions, to which errors you yourself are blind. Pride goeth before a fall, as it says in the Bible.

@zarismith293

4 жыл бұрын

I truly believe this

@rebeccagrotta510

3 жыл бұрын

Deep

@jasonspades5628

3 жыл бұрын

Why do people have this idea that the more profound something sounds, the more profound it is.

This is one of the most interesting discussions I have ever been witness to. Thank You to all involved.

2:09 "Many sophists were considered too clever by half, and critical, and subversive because they were willing to follow an argument wherever it might lead them. When you go all out after truth you cannot tell in advance whether the truth will be something that society would like it to be."-Eugene Weber

@mmccrownus2406

Жыл бұрын

Following ideas is not the summom bonum of life, nor of a good life or society. There is wisdom in the body, cells, instincts, tradition, etc.

What a great lecture/documentary, these old academic videos got a vibe which i love.

Used to run into Eugene Weber on PBS and would stop whatever I was doing to listen with rapt enthusiasm. Thanks... please sir, may we have another!

I have been looking for this. Watched it decades ago and am very glad to find it again!😊😎

@Mikathedog100

5 жыл бұрын

do you happen to know the name of the lecturer?

@DarkDevilGaming

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mikathedog100 Eugene Weber. Know it's been a while but still. Cheers!

@guitargil

4 жыл бұрын

Dittos

What an amazing lecturer.

@eugeniajuarez9387

2 жыл бұрын

We need more men like him who are willing to spread his teachings out side of the four wall of a University. At the present the masses are living in a great ignorance just worried in satisfying the hunger of the body and materialistic demands.

This man deserves a beer

@concernedcitizen780

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe 2 beers !

@nicv278

4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant narrator! Such a straight face and his emphasis on pronouncing a certain word...oh my it almost kill me

@dennisfarris4729

3 ай бұрын

I propose that ALL men deserve a beer ..

Greek language due to its etymological base,it promotes the analytical thinking,it has no accent and almost all words actually mean something that can be etymologically proved.Philosophy and Medical Science are applications of that function. I recommend to anyone who seeks answers,learn Greek and study the words

@innosanto

4 жыл бұрын

Greek language has accent. ( this is why there came 5 accents in the koine years to show the way to accent)

@lovetrancemusic6859

4 жыл бұрын

learn study etymologi and all this word that u think are greece in Albanian u can understand the mean of the word and decoding the word. remember there was no greek in bc. if u know history

@tttota5421

4 жыл бұрын

Love Trance correct

@barkmatter4389

4 жыл бұрын

@@lovetrancemusic6859 If it was that way,Albanian would be as popular as the Hellenic..I think your motivations are nationalistic..sorry but I'm not convinced

@lovetrancemusic6859

4 жыл бұрын

@@barkmatter4389 ok in history thieves win. can u try with Google translate? Albanian to English and try: Aphrodite but in Albanian PH=F so try Afro (the verb Afron is better)and Dite. Paride, try Pari. De in Albanian is interjection for: SO HIM google dont translate this. Priam or Prijam try Prij try Jam. but the bigest Helene He in albaia is just E = of try LENE. google dont translate 100% means leave of or she was left. i can explain hundreds words that u think are greece in Albanian today, only prob is Google translate and u dont know Albanian, if u know Iliad and Odise was translatet in Germany by an Albanian and Odise look the statue he have a 'PLIS' in his head try PLIS in google images

Anyone with a perm like the Plato in that bust who can get away with telling people they need to use their brains must of had some serious charisma.

The brilliance of men in an era where technology was none existent, customs, culture and sharing of research among intellects around the world was not an option.

@peterm2152

3 жыл бұрын

Racist and sexist MEN, yes highly likely given their "inbred brilliance" (= lack of outside CRITICISM and pursuing a closed type select agenda (= Greek males favoured in Greek education and cultural authority ; the Environment of closed technical and socially selective knowledge.. no wonder what was left stymied acritical peoples everywhere since)..

@ernestdayne6711

3 жыл бұрын

Why are you mad?

I throughly enjoyed this short lecture. I should like to see and hear more from this Professor.

Beautifully explained and delivered! Thank You Sir.

Thank you for much for posting this. It was great!

I have ALWAYS loved this guys lectures.

I wish this wasn't broken apart. I love this video.

Short and intense. Thank you very much. This is so great.

Thank you for sharing. One cannot get enough philosophy from our ancestors. Sadly most modern leaders apply poor applications that aren’t sustainable.

I love this video, thank you for posting.

Excellent lecture! You enlightened my mind in so many things about ancient Greek history and philosophy. Thanks

Thank you. Loved it beyond measure. So wonderful.

man this was awesome! really enjoyed this.

Love Eugen Weber!! Been watching this guy for 50 years, and I remember the first time I walked into the den where my father, if not reading, had PBS on and was watching one of Weber's shows, and my first thought was, "Why is dad watching Harvey Korman do one of his German accent comedy routines?".......then I realized this was a REAL professor.

@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164

4 жыл бұрын

So far about 6 people mentioned the resemblance. Welcome to the club.

Brilliant! Presented the core ideas so well. Helped me a lot. Thank you so much!

Loved the Documentary, also love the Art and colours, and Thanks to the above illustration I now know how to do Greek Key Boarder's. Merci

This was really good. Thank you for this 💎

Very lucid and well-knit presentation. Thank you Sir.

The cradle of Western civilization

Great stuff, really enjoyed this.

Right on. Thanks for sharing.

I'm still learning something new from the minds of 5th century sophists

Excellent! Thank you!

I'm enjoying to this lectures😊

Excellent. Thank you.

Now we just need a love button on youtube...

@versatilevideosandmotivati9855

7 жыл бұрын

i agree with you bro

@Deedraa

7 жыл бұрын

Solomon Chriqui so they think 💭 lol

@user-kr4bc9fj6e

7 жыл бұрын

Bældæg Tijuana.

@RottenDoctorGonzo

5 жыл бұрын

You are a complete moron.

@suveeshckumar

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahah surely.

Beautiful ❤️❣️ video. Must be screened in every school on earth

What a wonderful lecture, thank you 🙏 kindly

The reason why Philosophy was held in such esteem IMO is that it provided them with a problem solving toolkit for tackling their day to day issues. Edward De Bono makes much use of these tools in his creative thinking books. Even today Project Management skills are held in high regards and utilise the very same processes.

Life is an Illusion... Enjoy your spiritual journey, my beYOUtiful fellow travelers!

@travershuff5764

4 жыл бұрын

That's really cool. "Row, row, row your boat / Gently down the stream. / Merrily, merrily, , merrily, merrily / Life is but a dream. 😎

@alanpeterrogers5392

4 жыл бұрын

Don't go off on a psychic trip though good friend - that's important. Plato says Life is an Illusion for practical - not spiritual - reasons. It is a matter of fact; he says: that we accept much common opinion without testing its validity, meaning that baloney gets through to be taken for reality with the consequence that what we take for reality is false making our World unreal. To live in the real world requires elimination of baloney - that's all. He also points out that everything in the world is imperfect compared to the forms we use to educate ourselves about what our senses tell us. Popularisation of the false idea that he is some kind of mystic is how the powerful put us off the scent - just another shadow on the cave wall - of what he was really getting at. To reach for “The Good” - Plato’s conclusion as to our human meaning and purpose entails identification of the oppressors - being the ones who cast the shadows on the cave wall - and revealing them for what they really are. It is summarised in The Wizard of Oz when Toto pulls the curtain aside to cause a revolution by revelation not violence.

1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say, “He traps the wise in the snare of their own cleverness.”

Very nice documentary

Great documentary!

Just ran into this video…I was a History major at UCLA while Prof Weber was there, so this brings back many fine memories.

This was great !

Thank you

Aristotle and Socrates two of the greatest men ever

@SDSen

5 жыл бұрын

2 of many, the contribution of philosophers from Asia South Asia cannot be mentioned enough either.

@michaelloglio3365

5 жыл бұрын

Pedro, you may want to look at the painting 'The School of Athens' in the Vatican, used by the Church to discredit reason, where Aristotle ( Plato's student) is pointing downward to the Earth and Plato (Socrates student) is pointing upwards to the Heavens !

@edholohan

4 жыл бұрын

No shit, Sherlock...

@nicoangel690

4 жыл бұрын

"Platon !" ….(Plato)…..the final Third Portion of Western Philosophy! simply Heavenly Genius! My Bloodline Speaks!

@jvincent6548

4 жыл бұрын

@@nicoangel690 Genetically, modern Greeks are Slavic and bear no genetic descent from those whom we call Greek ancients.

I've been thinking this all my life. Its good to know some ancient philosopher also thought in that direction.

@villiestephanov984

6 жыл бұрын

L-GUN , some won't cut it. Lemme tell you why: #23:19, God brings them out of Egypt as He has strength like a wild ox. In Joel'3 .5 already are gone, because you have taken it away and carried beyond. Also the people of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, you have sold to the Greeks, and no one realize that 2:21 days of Hosea has become a proverb of 31:10, that no one can buy or sell except One who has the 3nity of Mark the name and the # of his name. Because wisdom is translated BG: malko da imash za da Vi idva na vreme as a command.

@ahyaok100

4 жыл бұрын

There's nothing new under the sun.

Great talk!

Amazing!!! Thank You!!!

What a gem...

Outstanding lecture❤ thank you..🙏🙏🙏🙏

I love the argument of Socrates about the credibility of God and most importantly, I appreciate his timely intervention on the importance of reason. If we apply this today I am sure the brainwashing we suffer from our societies might as well be dealt with. Thanks for this video and I need many more on the different teachings of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.

This is how you communicate ideas to an audience. Surprising how many speakers rush their words......

Great video

Love it!

I'm kind of stunned by how many of Plato's ideas have made it whole cloth into modern Christian teaching.... Thank you for posting this. Going to flag it for rewatch.

@aggypayspal5417

3 жыл бұрын

Plato is a infj

@cosmicrust9715

2 жыл бұрын

Simply Because Philosophy is Mother Of All Sciences and Theology (religion).

The Greeks Thales, Hippocrates, Pythagoras, Socrates,and Plato all traveled to (Africa), they studied at the temple-universities Waset and Ipet Isut te. Each stayed 20 years or more to complete their training.

thanks for the good job you have done, i would wish every body to have this lecture

I know Thrasymachus; he works at my uncle Aristotle’s souvlaki joint (whenever he decides to come in). That guy’s a big grouch: he’s always picking on the other waiters and the kitchen staff, and he shouts at the customers. Uncle Ari and his business partner Pericles have been firing and re-hiring ‘Mac’ a couple of times a week for the past twenty-five years - the customers call it ‘the Peloponnesian Wars’...

Thanks! It was interesting.

great one

Oh how I LOVE Socrates! Ever since I read my first book him when I was 14.. I wish this lecture was 3 hours long, I'd listen happily!! But thanks for these glorious 24 minutes anyhow!

Thank you for your reading

Thanks for sharing. I really did enjoy that. More than I expected. He cleared up a few things I had been wondering about concerning the ancient Greeks and also showed where the Genesis for some central Christian ideas come from such as the heavenly perfect city.

@alanpeterrogers5392

3 жыл бұрын

The celestial realm is not to be confused with Religion - some kind of heaven - it is a postulation on why it might be that perfect forms - such as the triangle - appear in the mind alone and not in the sensory world. He thinks the same about the complex forms - such as justice - and that by understanding and approximating the form of it in the sensory world we get pursuit of the good. Because the body and this fully equipped mind in which perfected forms appear come together from these seemingly different realms at birth he wonders if they separate at death, and due to the unchangingness of the forms that there is no decaying of them so the mind could be thought of as continuing to exist. Should his speculation be true the psyche would abide somewhere - maybe not a material somewhere - so lets call it the celestial city, but he doesn't claim this as truth, just an image. There is no "Heaven" about it because there is no epistemology that helps establish the existence of heaven, the idea of which is no more than the doxa in Platonic parlance - opnion not truth.

@SDW3-6-9

10 ай бұрын

My personal favourite was Diogenes the stoic and famously unsophist. ❤

Perfect

Philosophy for ever. A very British lecture. Most interesting.

@Fan45192

5 жыл бұрын

Romanian American.

15:01 Thales of Miletus (german: Thales von Milet) 16:00 Geometry as a memory of ideal World - eternal World of Ideas - prototypes of the Real World 17:20 out of their (the Ideas) shadow 17:40 "Physicists" - Thales, Anaximander (his Prime Mover of Life), 19:12 Plato tried to produce a more accessible version of the eternal G. 19:20 ideal reality is perfect, because unchangeable=immutable, the objects all around are inferior, because they change all the time 20:00 the divine mind that moves the heaven 21:16 We come from the stars (Timaeus) and go to "the celestial city" 22:05 ivory tower 22:25 Roman fresco: Aristotle and his school + Human body? 23:50 Paidea

@scotthill1600

2 жыл бұрын

God damn are you a philosopher, knowing all of this, love it

@nezperce2767

Жыл бұрын

You do not know your history it is so old, going back... Egyptian priest to .... Timaios by plato

I can relate to these guys...

Thanks good stuff

I'm 14. I have no business watching this and yet I'm here.

Great narrator

awesome !!

Am I the only one finding this documentary funny yet interesting at the same time?

thank u for upload.

*Eugen Joseph Weber (1925 - 2007) was a great U.C.L.A. professor: ¡3:23 am Pacific Daylight Savings Time on Wednesday, 3 November 2021 Common Era or CE formerly known as Ano Domini or AD!*

@wagfinpis

2 жыл бұрын

I love his sharing earnest. I feel I would need to argue and debate his assumptions, but would love and relish the sincerity of his misunderstandings.

Plato was correct about quota the eternal world of ideas...he also said that if there was not beauty in the body there most be beauty in the soul...

@christopherbowman7799

4 жыл бұрын

He said it was no good to sit & stare at the ceiling

I like this teacher.

Socrates was able to Think this is to be striven for always know the Truth & the truth will set you free

@alanpeterrogers5392

4 жыл бұрын

Finding the truth doesn't just set you free it sets everyone free - except those who are happier with the comfort blanket of what they've been told to think - most people alas!

@tham4378

3 жыл бұрын

Know thy self.

Nice messages of plato

superb

Great pronounciation. My English is far from perfect, but I've heard every word.

Interesting stuff.

Socrates, the unofficial, non-deified demi-god of Philosophy who would've questioned his own Self.

@alanpeterrogers5392

3 жыл бұрын

No sir. Apologies for the down-vote, but the whole point is that Socrates is completely human, he is just not; and never could be: the psychological colony of another. He lives in reality because he does not accept anything as true unless he can authenticate it through reasoned examination - the dielectic - whereas everyone else, or nearly everyone else, accepts commonly held belief as being true precisely because they tell each other it is. The Socrateses who know we are believing lies try to tell us, but we resent them for making waves, for stopping the show, for going against the grain, for being deliberately disruptive and all these things in the mind of the many kill off Socrates's revelations and we continue to be brainwashed and determined to say so - this is why Plato says "The unexamined life is not worth living." We are psychological creatures of another in that case, which is unnatural, whilst dead Socrates - who we psychologically worthless others killed - was possessed of himself, thus fulfilling himself for our benefit which is the thing that is the most natural and good goal of all.

@cadkls

3 жыл бұрын

@@alanpeterrogers5392 Youve written so much, yet said nothing. Nothing but deepities.

@SuperBhavanishankar

3 жыл бұрын

@@cadkls it is informative, we should remember some points

@lmwaters9617

3 жыл бұрын

@@cadkls "deepities", a wonderful word. I'm going to use it whenever and wherever I can. lol For real.

@cadkls

3 жыл бұрын

@@lmwaters9617 I'd love to take credit but it's not a word I came up with. But I like it too, its basically just phrases that sound deep but have no thought put into them.

this is an interesting lecture here.

Amazing

Plato spoke of singularities,perfect form of energy spheres of energy and so many thinks that today physics test.

@tham4378

3 жыл бұрын

For Plato energy means nothing, forms do.

@user-dm5kv9gz8h

3 жыл бұрын

@@tham4378 yes but when he describes forms for example pyramid or πυραμις in Greek which means fire he describe it through a perfect triangle and fire was of the first forces of the creator,those are in Τιμαιος he even said about οπή which means hole and about oscillations.

@tham4378

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-dm5kv9gz8h the image you display on your profile explains everything regarding sense/perception and this encompasses the whole philosophy, not only of Plato. But to enter into the dialogue with him O Aristos kai Telios mentions that in the case of plane figures is the definition of their form. As without geometry none can enter the school of Athens. So when you say a sphere(drop of water) it is the same as saying circle, when you say a cube it is the same as a square. So all forms originate from the sphere, as it is the most perfect of them all. Now, a point without magnitude but with rythm, occupying no space(as perception does) but is only volume(sensation, feeling, unchanging, common to all beings, constants).O Pythagoras used to explain Mathematics into four branches, arithmetics, music, astronomy and the spherics. The square when divided by the side, as modern science measures, the division arrives at the infinitely small unit, without an objective, no center just according to necessity. On the other hand if divided by the diagonal as commanded by the diameter you can find to find the center or Atomo( the undivisible), where man is the model of the world as depicted geometrically by superimposing two images, one upon the other on the Vitruvius Man of Leonardo Da Vinci. So the challenge of squaring the circle is dogma(meaning one method) or kanonas epi nous, how to find the atom has eternally been solved by the great Philosophers and it is something that can never be achieved by the physicians nowdays. Atomo being the point with rythm can be measured by word through cuneiform script, it’s properties are dual as a raport between the diagonal and the side of the square as depicted in Thales theorem. All raports represent elements precisely measured geometrically by a2=b2+c2 and physically e=mc2.

A beautiful lecture of vast scope. A brief but marvelous course in Classics. Thank you!

Enlightening

miss this guy

This guy reminds me of Harvey korman- I keep expecting Tim Conway to shuffle up to him lol...

@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164

4 жыл бұрын

I JUST posted the same thing!

Thank you. This video strengthened my faith in God.

I have done my masters ln philosophy therefore l like this lecture

What is the name of the original documentary? Thanks for sharing the clips

Hey look, it's Hedley Lamarr, ( blazing saddles) used to watch, Eugene Weber, on PBS, ( years ago) simply becasue he looked like ,Harvey Korman... Glad i did.

Who is this guy? He is amazing, I need more documentaries by him.

Watched all of it 23:25 , need to watch again

what a lecture. where can i get other lectures of this man

@innosanto

4 жыл бұрын

it is actually a famous series