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Intro to Plato | Philosophy Tube
🕑 Added 2018-05-25 17:20:53 +0000 UTC Hello lovely Patrons! Here's a fun video for you, it should be helpful if you're studying philosophy or if you need a refresher on your classics!
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Stephen Graham
Thanks for the refresher. I think there may be some vagueness in your use of “ideal self”. At times I think you mean “an abstract, mental representation of the self”, but then you use it as “an ideation of a desired state of the self”. The former definition allows me to say things like, “I am not my body” while the latter allows me to compare my current self-state to other possible self-states and apply comparisons, desires, etc. Perhaps in either case, any ideal self would still be tied to a Platonic Good, which is not subject to the whims of society and culture.
