This presentation was originally delivered by Roger Weir on January 24, 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

This presentation was originally delivered by Roger Weir on January 17, 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

This presentation was delivered by Roger Weir on January 10, 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

This presentation was delivered by Roger Weir on January 3, 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

In this presentation Roger Weir discusses Plato's theory of education. Weir asserts this is the "single way of teaching all things."

This presentation was delivered by Roger Weir on July 1, 1990.

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https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/platos-theory-of-education
https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/plato-ii

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Plato's cosmology. Perhaps the most profound single influence in Western Philosophy.

This presentation was originally delivered by Roger Weir on March 29, 1990.

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https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/platos-theory-of-education
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Part two of the Sophist-Statesman tandem leading to "a picture drawn to perfection of the true king and statesman."

This presentation was originally delivered by Roger Weir on March 29, 1990.

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Plato's important clearing up of fundamental existential quandaries frequently enmeshed in unclear language. The first part of a two part dialogue (Sophist/Statesman).

This presentation was originally delivered by Roger Weir on March 15, 1990.

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https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/platos-theory-of-education
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In this lecture, Roger explored Plato's Parmenides — one of the most demanding and rewarding dialogues in Western philosophy. The dialogue stages a dramatic encounter between the young Socrates and the aged master Parmenides, who systematically dismantles the Theory of Forms and guides Socrates to the edge of intellectual self-doubt. We examine the via negativa — the path of unknowing — and Parmenides' radical assertion that only the One truly exists. Rooted in the Hermetic and Neoplatonic wisdom tradition, this lecture reveals the Parmenides not merely as an exercise in logic, but as an initiatory text — a philosophical rite of passage in which the soul is awakened to a deeper order of reality beyond the reach of ordinary thought.

This is a presentation originally delivered by Roger Weir on March 8, 1990.

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https://sharedpresencefoundation.org/presentations/platos-theory-of-education
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This lecture explores Plato's Theaetetus, examining it as the first of four late dialogues—alongside the Parmenides, Sophist, and Statesman—that together form an artistic and psychic whole. This presentation covers the dialogue's unusual structure as a written (rather than spoken) text, the significance of Socrates as a "midwife of ideas," the Pythagorean undertones in the relationship between Socrates and young Theaetetus, and the central philosophical question the dialogue raises: what is knowledge? Along the way, the lecture touches on Parmenides' paradox of being and non-being, the symbolic role of number and harmony in Greek thought, and how this inquiry sets the stage for Plato's later, more esoteric explorations of cosmology and human perfection.

This presentation was originally delivered by Roger Weir on March 1, 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