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…and hate-feared Eurocentrism, your love of the Logos. You know, you feel, reading you, I feel that my head is thrust between Socrates' thighs. You're so in love with the Logos. What's so bad about it? Nothing wrong with that at all! Nothing wrong, you…
…is that you learn from your love, and it was homoerotic love, that the man falls in love with a beautiful young man, Socrates falls in love with a beautiful young man. Love isn't just about infatuation with that one individual, because if you love a…
…big opposition, and Kierkegaard himself knew it very well in his philosophical fragments of how it's usually said, it's precisely Socrates versus Jesus Christ. I'm a Christian here, although an atheist. I think that precisely as he said... The Christian view…
…why let's forget about all this bullshit philosophical reasoning I think the best definition of philosophy was provided by ancient Greeks apropos Socrates the duty of a philosopher is to corrupt the youth No, I don't mean it in an immoral sense, but like…
…doubt the ruling ideology, whatever. Just for those people who don't know, that was one of the charges that led to Socrates' execution. That's what I meant, yeah, yeah. In a way, from the standpoint of existing power, the Athenian court, democratic court,…
…think Plato is basically a philosopher of traumatic encounter. Like, you know, you are an ordinary guy like Socrates. Idea is something that you traumatically encounter. Another dimension enters. Descartes is the first who de-substantialized philosophy,…
…never read philosophy you know no late dialogues of plato you know how they look This is my favorite form of dialogue. One guy, Socrates, talks all the time, and his partner just says every 10 minutes, quarter of an hour, by Zeus, so it is Socrates. So…
…One guy, Socrates, talks all the time, and his partner just says every 10 minutes, quarter of an hour, by Zeus, so it is Socrates. So let's not do that, be brutal. And second thing, this is not live. Oh, it is live. Sorry if I didn't explain that.…
…Plato's dialogues, how they look. One guy talks all the time, and the other guy just says so every ten minutes, by Zeus, yes, Socrates, so it is, and so on. That's the dialogue that I like, you know. So just to go back, first elections, and you…
…like, I always use this joke, if you know philosophy, Plato. You know how late Plato's, the last dialogues of Plato look? One guy, Socrates or whoever, talks all the time, and every ten minutes or so, the other guy says, by Zeus, so it is Socrates, and…
…One guy, Socrates or whoever, talks all the time, and every ten minutes or so, the other guy says, by Zeus, so it is Socrates, and so on. Let's not do this. Okay, so let's see, and be careful about all the details. The sense of miracle, his certainty,…
…don't want to go into it. You find this. In Plato's idealism, you know, Plato's basic reaction was, the way Plato describes Socrates when he's thinking, it's really like a hysteric reaction of this, ah, he just stood there, immobilized, and so on and so…
…get Jean's question as well. Could you just pass the mic over? Thank you. Is it just to... the calm's use of Socrates and Alcibiades to figure out what happens in terms Socrates, but actually what Socrates understands is that he really wants himself. He…
…the mic over? Thank you. Is it just to... the calm's use of Socrates and Alcibiades to figure out what happens in terms Socrates, but actually what Socrates understands is that he really wants himself. He wants his own desire. He wants to transfer to his…
…you. Is it just to... the calm's use of Socrates and Alcibiades to figure out what happens in terms Socrates, but actually what Socrates understands is that he really wants himself. He wants his own desire. He wants to transfer to his own desire. So he…
…concept of repetition, his references to Aristotle and Kierkegaard. We take the concept of transference, he always refers you to Socrates, to Plato's symposium. The theory for discourse is you cannot make sense of it without referring to Hegel's dialectic of…
…Plato's dialogues. You know how they look. One guy talks all the time, the other says like every ten minutes, by Zeus, Socrates, Socrates, yes, yes. This is something in regards to dialogue. I just had a question about your feelings on Huntington and his…
…dialogues. You know how they look. One guy talks all the time, the other says like every ten minutes, by Zeus, Socrates, Socrates, yes, yes. This is something in regards to dialogue. I just had a question about your feelings on Huntington and his opinions…
…Plato's dialogues. You know what happens there. One guy speaks all the time, and the other says every ten minutes, so it is, Socrates, and so on. But, sorry, I think that our task today is simply, of course, not to simply remain Hegelian, in the sense…
…late Plato. One guy talks all the time, the other guy every ten minutes just says something like, Vizius, yes, so it is Socrates, so it is. Let's have a dialogue, please. So we have time for two questions. Let me be extremely generous. Three. No, sorry.…
…speaks power, the law speaks through him. It's this fetishist logic of what in psychoanalysis we call symbolic castration. For example, Socrates, when he was condemned to death. His point is basically, I know those judges who condemned me are idiots, but…
…there's only two options. You either know something or you don't. Whereas this is what is called Mino's paradox. This is what Socrates criticizes. The idea that you already know something or you don't. I think the truth is that we are somewhere in between…
…it's the thing that can have different qualities at different times. So white is always white and sad is always sad, but Socrates can be happy one minute and sad the next. That's what makes him a substance. The most interesting human characters are often…
…Plato's dialogues. Do you know them? One guy talks all the time. The other guy says every ten minutes by Zeus, so it is Socrates. So let's have this type of a dialogue now. Okay, so let's pretend to be democratic. Put your hands up. Hello. I wonder…
…crucial. You know that the whole Kierkegaard edifice is Christianity, religion as repetition against philosophy for Kierkegaard. From Socrates or Plato rather to Hegel, like erinnerung, rememoration. And, of course, in Freud, it's absolutely crucial, the…
…will not get it when you come next time. Yes? You are a Greek sophist. You are a Greek sophist. You deserve the fate of Socrates, but not poison. Chop, chop the head, in fact. Okay, so, as you know, there is a field of art starting in Mallard Street,…
…that it, philosophy itself, unleashed in its founding gesture. Philosophy is something crazy, radical. It's always as Badiou quoted, of course, Socrates corrupting the youth and so on. There is a radical negative dimension and the gap is there. And I think…
…Alain Badiou's new book, The True Life, La Vraie Vie. Well, Badiou already begins with a wonderful provocative claim that from Socrates onward, the function of philosophy is to corrupt the youth. to alienate or rather, in Brechtian sense, extranate them from…
…extranate them from the predominant ideological political order, to sow radical doubts, to enable them to think autonomously. No wonder Socrates, the first philosopher, was also its first victim, ordered by the democratic court of Athens to drink poison. And…
…book by my good friend Alain Badiou, La Vraie Vie, The True Life. The book opens with the provocative claim that from Socrates onwards, the main function of philosophy is to corrupt the youth, the young, to alienate or rather extranate, in Brecht's sense…
…the young from the predominant ideological and political order. to thaw radical doubts and enable them to think autonomously. No wonder Socrates, the first philosopher, was also its first victim, as we all know ordered by the democratic court of Athens to…
…it today. But back to Badiou, it's a beautiful beginning where he says that he wants just to go on with what from Socrates onwards is the... the one definition of what is the task of a philosopher, to corrupt the youth. And then he goes wonderfully…
…fundamental references were always, always philosophers. Name it. pre-Socratics. Lacan has a wonderful reading of Dan in Democritus, Socrates, the basic figure of transferes, Plato, Parmenides, Aristotle, Stoics, object A, Aquinas, just name it. The ridiculous…
…how they are structured. One guy talks all the time, and the other guy says every 10 minutes, by Zeus, so it is. Yes, Socrates. So let's have this type of a dialogue, OK? In that spirit, I should start by saying I mostly agree with what you're saying,…
…focus in Plato on the encounter of an idea. And in some wonderful, wonderful parts of his dialogues, Plato even clearly describes Socrates confronting Eubankar, and your muscles will get stronger, and they even advise you to do a lot of deep I mean, this…
…dialogues where one guy talks all the time and the other guy only says every 10 minutes something like, by Zeus, you are right, Socrates. So let's have this type of a dialogue. I'm afraid I can't promise that one here. But let's see. I'd like to see…
…power, the law speaks through him. It's this fetishist logic of what in psychoanalysis we call symbolic castration. Like, for example, Socrates, when he was condemned to death, no? His point is basically, I know those judges who condemned me are idiots, but…
…Plato's dialogues, which look like this? One guy talks all the time, and the other one just says every 10 minutes or so, by Zeus, Socrates, you are right, and so on, you know? So let's have a dialogue. Okay. I think we have time for one or two short…
…at the news, I thought, where am I? In some ideal country like ancient Greece? You know, I opened the news, it says, Socrates arrested, you know. Then I looked, then I thought, if I look deeper, I will find then some financial news, like because of…
…Plato subordinates singular existence, its uniqueness, to the universal. This point was developed mostly by Kierkegaard, like Socrates versus Christ. Socrates, universal wisdom, Christ, uniqueness of singular existence. Then we have Heideggerian anti-Platonism. You…
…existence, its uniqueness, to the universal. This point was developed mostly by Kierkegaard, like Socrates versus Christ. Socrates, universal wisdom, Christ, uniqueness of singular existence. Then we have Heideggerian anti-Platonism. You know, Plato as the…
…intervenes, the concept of madness. Already Plato, if you know how, for example, in some of his dialogues, how he describes Socrates being seized by an idea. Already Lacan noted it, how it's really a description of someone in a... hysterical seizure, you…
…look. One guy talks all the time, and the other guy says every ten minutes something like, by Zeus, so it is Socrates, or whatever, you know. Sorry, I'm a totalitarian philosopher. And I'm quite serious here. In philosophy, don't bullshit me with dialogue.…
…Plato. One guy talks all the time, the other guy every ten minutes just says something like, Vizius, yes, so it is Socrates. Let's have a dialogue, please. So we have time for two questions. Let me be extremely generous. Three. Three. No, sorry. Let's…
…do they look, the last Plato dialogues. One guy talks all the time. The other guy only says every ten minutes, like, yes, Socrates by Zeus... Let's have this type of dialogue. So I'll be the ephebe to Socrates. No, fuck you, I'm Socrates. You just say,…
…guy only says every ten minutes, like, yes, Socrates by Zeus... Let's have this type of dialogue. So I'll be the ephebe to Socrates. No, fuck you, I'm Socrates. You just say, by Zeus you are right, and so forth. So anybody who would venture into this…
…minutes, like, yes, Socrates by Zeus... Let's have this type of dialogue. So I'll be the ephebe to Socrates. No, fuck you, I'm Socrates. You just say, by Zeus you are right, and so forth. So anybody who would venture into this Agora forum, I will ask…
…another dimension breaks in and even more importantly each of the three philosophers stands by an idea, like falling in love, like Socrates under the spell of his demon, the madness at the heart of Cogito, and of course the ultimate madness of the…
…mountain. But nonetheless, we shouldn't use modern terms and claim, oh, for them, Zeus was just a metaphor for cosmic powers. Socrates, who was the man who most undermined the traditional beliefs, on his deathbed offered instructions to sacrifice a cock to…
…into this more, let's call it even Kierkegaardian repetition, site philosopher even. I mean, sorry, proto-philosopher in the sense that Socrates is the beginning of philosophy, but at that moment something close to the position of the analyst happens, which…
…James or what, Alain liked that movie and said, I want him dead. She wanted a wife for Plato. She said, why only Socrates has a wife who was beating him, Xanthippa, Penelope Cruz. And then comes the wonderful moment. We debated long who should be the…
…wife who was beating him, Xanthippa, Penelope Cruz. And then comes the wonderful moment. We debated long who should be the young Socrates, who is for Alain the bad guy. I already mentioned him here. Tom Cruise from Magnolia. He is the young Socrates. And…
…the young Socrates, who is for Alain the bad guy. I already mentioned him here. Tom Cruise from Magnolia. He is the young Socrates. And then I asked him a question, but what about I think that in today's cynical times, it's wonderful if you are still…