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Asking oneself and others what the perfect version of something is, the ideal version, might sound like a strange idea.
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What is the perfect marriage or career or system of government or school?
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It can feel immature and naive to bother much with such questions.
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They're just daydreams.
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After all, who cares about ideal versions?
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We might as well deal with with what we've got.
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But the great ancient
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Greek philosopher Plato strenuously disagrees with this.
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Throughout his work, he argues
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that focusing on the ideal version of something is one of the most useful kinds of thought exercises we can generate.
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It's by knowing what we think something should be like
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that we can more clearly start to define what might be wrong
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and focus on what we need to do to make the world slightly better.
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When he was talking about ideals, Plato used a slightly strange but ultimately rather useful word – the forms.
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So he asked not what is the ideal friendship or the ideal kind of parental love,
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he asked what is the form of friendship or the form of parental love.
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It does sound strange but what he had in mind was something very practical.
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When a Greek stonemason was carving an ornament, they wouldn't just make it up themselves,
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they'd make use of a wooden template or form to check if they were getting it right.
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The form itself was made by the master, but if the mason possessed the form, they could more reliably do perfect work.
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This is Plato's basic picture of what an ideal is.
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It's the guide you need that shows you how to do something well yourself.
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If you've got possession of the form, you can be guided towards a true goal.
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A form, as Plato sees it, is a blueprint, a set of instructions for making a very good version of something.
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That's why we all need a well -thought -through set of forms to guide us in life.
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And unsurprisingly, it is philosophy that can guide us to these forms.
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So, for example, the form of friendship is a mental model of what a really good friendship actually involves.
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And if you grasp this model, if this idea is active in your mind, you will know how to be a good friend.
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Similarly, having a form of education in mind is going to be very useful for the teacher.
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– it'll stop her being buffeted by events and day -to -day pressures – she'll be able to keep in mind where,
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ideally, she should be going.
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We've typically thought of ideals as fantasy projections that blithely ignore most of what life is actually like.
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We think of them as the opposite of being realistic.
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But Plato sees an ideal as the result of a deep understanding and careful engagement with reality.
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Someone setting up an airport would need in the platonic scheme to have in mind the ideal air traffic control system,
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something optimally effective, efficient and safe.
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This is the person who would, in Plato's terms, have grasped the form of air traffic control.
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We all need to have as many forms in mind as we possibly can.
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Plato is breaking the habitual assumption
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that searching for the ideal is at odds with getting things done in the rough and tumble of the real world.
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And he's pushing us to be more exacting about where we are trying to head to.
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If an ideal seems utterly distant and hopeless, maybe the problem isn't that it's too idealistic,
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but in a strange but important way, actually not idealistic enough.
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That is, we've not quite yet discovered the form.
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We shouldn't abandon our ideals.
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We should get more ambitious about them and Plato's philosophy is on hand to help us.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “PLATO ON: The Forms”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: ideal, Plato, version, friendship, strange. Questo video contiene 46 frasi e 630 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:30. Chi parla va veloce, circa 180 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 83% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| ideal aggettivo | /aɪˈdi(ə)l/ | ideale |
| friendship sostantivo | /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/ | amicizia |
| grasp verbo | /ɡɹæsp/ | afferrare, avvinghiare |
| parental aggettivo | /pəˈɹɛn.təl/ | parentale |
| ignore verbo | /ɪɡˈnɔː/ | ignorare |
| practical aggettivo | /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/ | pratico |
| argue verbo | /ˈɑɹ.ɡju/ | discutere, dibattere |
| efficient aggettivo | /ɪˈfɪʃənt/ | efficiente, performante |
| odd aggettivo | /ɑd/ | strano, strambo |
| bother verbo | /ˈbɑðɚ/ | disturbare, infastidire |
| discover verbo | /dɪˈskʌvə/ | scoprire, trovare |
| possession sostantivo | /pəˈzɛʃn̩/ | possesso |
| wooden aggettivo | /ˈwʊdn̩/ | di legno, ligneo |
| define verbo | /dɪˈfaɪn/ | definire, determinare |
| engagement sostantivo | /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/ | impegno |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| set up verbo | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | preparare, installare |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | was made · can be guided · being buffeted |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | We've typically thought · have grasped |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 11 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come we've, isn't, it'll. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, blithely /ˈblaɪðli/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, instruction /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/, assumption /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: similarly /ˈsɪm.ə.lə.li/, ideally /aɪˈdi.ə.li/, philosopher /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/, idealistic /ˌaɪ.di.əˈlɪ.stɪk/, habitual /həˈbɪ.t͡ʃʊ.əl/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hopeless /ˈhoʊplɪs/, habitual /həˈbɪ.t͡ʃʊ.əl/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, grasp /ɡɹæsp/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, odd /ɑd/, engagement /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: grasp /ɡɹæsp/, practical /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/, abandon /əˈbæn.dən/, ambitious /æmˈbɪʃ.əs/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come ideal, friendship, grasp.
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