Plato’s Terrifying Secret Doctrines | Jason Reza Jorjani

Please Consider joining my Patreon to help finding scholars to bring on. Any amount helps me. Thank you existing Patrons. Jason Reza Jorjani: @prometheism3174 Lovers of Sophia: Plato’s so-called unwritten doctrines are metaphysical theories ascribed to him by his students and other ancient philosophers but not clearly formulated in his writings. In recent research, they are sometimes known as Plato’s ’principle theory’ (German: Prinzipienlehre) because they involve two fundamental principles from which the rest of the system derives. Plato is thought to have orally expounded these doctrines to Aristotle and the other students in the Academy and they were afterwards transmitted to later generations. The credibility of the sources that ascribe these doctrines to Plato is controversial. They indicate that Plato believed certain parts of his tea