A fascinating and illuminating talk. I have never seen Plato in this light, though many of course draw a distinction between Plato and "Platonism". It seems there are as many Platos as there are philosophers to write footnotes on him. I'm hearing a lot of Heidegger in what you describe, which of course seems counterintuitive given Heidegger's idea of the "Platonic misstep", explored in Introduction to Metaphysics and elsewhere, which would witness the original obscuring of the kind of mythopoeic thought you ascribe to Plato in this talk.
A fascinating and illuminating talk. I have never seen Plato in this light, though many of course draw a distinction between Plato and "Platonism". It seems there are as many Platos as there are philosophers to write footnotes on him. I'm hearing a lot of Heidegger in what you describe, which of course seems counterintuitive given Heidegger's idea of the "Platonic misstep", explored in Introduction to Metaphysics and elsewhere, which would witness the original obscuring of the kind of mythopoeic thought you ascribe to Plato in this talk.