The good life of the philosopher depends on critical selfawareness. Sproul and dolezals all that is in god open book with. Lectures with transcripts to improve your listening and. Beginning with an introduction to greek philosophy and literature, they lay a strong foundation for ideas and categories that will help you better read the works of plato. Enjoy this lectures series, and especially the final lecture here. Most of what we know today about socrates came from his students like. Then, in the last book of the republic, book x, there is, once again, a descent to the underworld, to the world of hades. Then it seems we must exercise supervision also, in the matter of such tales as. To upper crusties like plato, going down to the piraeus was slumming.
Restrictions on the permitted use of these lecture notes these lecture notes are all ed. Aristotle, plotinus, and augustine peter kreeft lecture 3 objectivebob. Describe the education of the guardians as it is presented in books 2 and 3 of plato s republic. Podcasts, interviews, and lectures department of philosophy. I apologize for the vagueness of the preliminary syllabus on these matters. Plato was the student who put words in his teachers mouth. The fifth lecture is about crosscultural differences, a concept which is closely linked to language learning. Charnwood, godfrey rathbone benson, baron, 18641945. Phil 181 lecture 3 parts of the soul i open yale courses.
Manual transcription is very tedious, so i recommend going with a transcription solution that incorporates speechtotext technology for an initial transcript. Hello and welcome to the royal society in edinburgh for the third of this years bbc reith lectures. The good of the state overrides all other considerations. And the opposite type to them is what we must require in speech and in verse. The work is not, in a sense, written simply as a sort of timeless philosophical treatise, but as a dramatic dialogue with a setting, a cast of characters and a firm location in time and place. And theres an interesting phrase here in the subtitle, classical christian theism. Platos symposium lecture outline the good life at a great price. Rated 5 out of 5 by jay oza from made plato easy to understand plato s republic is a hard book since it is old, but this course made plato come alive. Jul 23, 2012 a further explanation of the divided line in book 6. For the period between september 20 and september 2014, the new york. Three comic fragments containing references to plato s good. Finally, on the level of logos, or rational discussion, plato will lay out several very. Plato and aristotle which also covers platos student aristotle.
Syllabus for a course on plato republic prepared by robert. Gombrich famously observed that there really is no such thing as art with a capital a. Developed by department of philosophy phd matt teichman, elucidations is a monthly podcast featuring university of chicago department of philosophy faculty members and faculty guests who talk with matt and other graduate students about their latest work. Fourth and final lecture in the 2011 john locke lecture series.
Jul 30, 2015 manual transcription is very tedious, so i recommend going with a transcription solution that incorporates speechtotext technology for an initial transcript. There are few cities in the world that have made such a distinguished contribution to medical research and education as. The podcasts cover a range of topics from the theoretical to the practical, including perception, moral motivation, and sexual orientation. This lecture is a whirlwind tour through the life of socrates. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left.
With the belief that the good soul makes the body as good as it can be in mind, the discussion presents that the guardians must not get drunk and must have a simple diet, consisting of roast meat, and no sweets. As in 33 minutes into the 2nd book in the audio version, i was 12 way through the 3rd book. It begins with an explanation of the socratic problem, followed by an examination of his philosophy. Three comic fragments containing references to platos good. I tried to listen to this recording a month ago when we were going over the republic. Neither should they be trained to imitate the action or speech of. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Visit the presidents page to see his availability to speak at your church or ministry 523 ne everett st. A further explanation of the divided line in book 6. It contains the plato you need, plus introductory material and in. S6 the way that youre taught at university is quite different from sixth form and colleges and things like that because you basically have a few lectures but you also have seminars, and lectures are usually your whole course, meeting up and just receiving information from one of the lecturers on a particular topic and then seminars are where.
This particular series of lectures is called the alfred deakin innovation lectures. Socrates hopes fade in the face of critos admission at 50a that he does not understand. View week 3 descartes part 1 from phil 4 at foothill college. Most firsttime readers of the republic are shocked by how authoritarian platos ideal city is. This course is an examination of platos republic in its entirety. At book iii 414 socrates tells of the need for a noble lie to be believed in the city he and his companions are founding in speech. Visit the presidents page to see his availability to speak at your church or ministry. It contains the plato you need, plus introductory material and indepth, chapterlength commentaries. The real riddle, namely the contradiction between the public lecture on the good and repeated statements in. More recent work on book x by myles burnyeat tanner lectures 1999, available for free online, verity harte oxford studies in ancient philosophy, 2010, or the aforementioned 2007 cambridge companion to platos republic show rather unkindly how annas work has passed over many nuances of book x to arrive at the slamming verdict she does. Describe the education of the guardians as it is presented in books 2 and 3 of platos republic. Our subject is the future of medicine and were in the right place.
Lecture 4 introduces platos republic and its many meanings in the context of moral psychology, justice, the power of poetry and myth, and metaphysics. I dont think i would have appreciated plato as much if i did not have this course to help me. Pater, who translates the passage plato and platonism. Code has granted permission for use of the material which is, at this point, integrated throughout the notes. How to make a good transcript of a recorded lecture quora. It contains the plato you need, plus introductory material and indepth. Lectures with transcripts to improve your listening and everything else. Roger ascham in his schoolmaster quotes it as a perfect example of the best. Greg johnson, the myths of plato, part 1 countercurrents. Ronald polansky, unpublished lecture notes for plato seminar at duquense university, 1975. Most of the lectures and course material within open yale courses are licensed under a creative commons attributionnoncommercialshare alike 3. Introduction to political philosophy plsc 114 lecture 4 introduces platos republic and its many meanings in the context of moral psychology, justice, the power of. What do you call someone who speaks three languages.
Hunger is the most piteous death that a mortal may suffer. Platos republic, spring 1957 iii is suggested to us that this completion is. Purchase a copy of this text not necessarily the same edition from. Lectures and seminars transcript university of birmingham.
It is known as a socratic dialogue and is perhaps one of. Several editions of jowetts translation of platos republic were published in his. Not only do adventurers, explorers, pirates, sailors, foreigners, decadents, democrats all hang out on the docks, it. This is the best audio book of platos republic and its. They are intended for the private use of students, scholars, and educators, and may not be printed, published, or reproduced for distribution in any manner whether commercial or not without the expressed written consent of the author. Usage attributionnoncommercialno derivative works 3. Get a detailed summary and analysis of every chapter in the book from.
Introduction to political philosophy plsc 114 lecture 4 introduces plato s republic and its many meanings in the context of moral psychology, justice, the power of. Two concepts of education the problem we are currently awash in torrents of public conversation about education. Then youll need that transcript cleaned up by a native speaker. And shall we receive into our state all the three styles, or one. Lecture course in platos republic laurence bloom by laurence bloom.
In this lecture, the entertaining stanford lecturer dives into the biological and psychological aspect of the most damaging disease. Oct 10, 2012 platos republic introduction lecture 1 even though we can find all of this information on the internet, we might as well remind ourselves of some of the facts of platos life. The content of the lecture that is, the philosophical question. Platos division between reason, spirit, and appetite. This course is taught at the university of north carolina greensboro. I really dont know if they resonate with how i think today. The republic is also discussed as a utopia, presenting an extreme vision of a poliskallipolisplatos ideal city. Beyond that, i have incorporated here some materials from the transcript of part 2 of this lecture so that all the general material on myth in plato. They then examine platos republic, introducing each of its ten books and tracing the ideas and themes found within them. The annenberg cpbproject provided support for entering this text. In the republic, in a long speech, socrates tells what has happened. These lecture notes have been developed over many years and draw on material presented by alan code in his introduction to ancient philosophy course given at ucberkeley in the 1980s when i served as his teaching assistant. This is a video lecture from phi 251, history of ancient philosophy.
Ready to call it a night, theyre intercepted by a whole gang of their acquaintances, who eventually convince them to come hang out at polemarchuss house and have a nice, long chat. Any such arrangement appears to me not only to be unsupported by evidence, but to involve an anachronism in the history of philosophy. Jun 05, 2016 stanford professor robert sapolsky discusses depression in u. Soul and state i want to reserve discussion of the republic books vi and vii pp 269281 in my text until next tuesday. An analysis of platos crito, roslyn weiss maintains that. Lecture notes introduction to political thought political. Plato s laws consists of twelve books, which enables us to divide it easily into twelve assignments. Bill mounce blogs on spiritual formation and on greek at.
This is a 2017 book by james dolezal and its called all that is in god. As usual, i have edited his transcript to remove excessive wordiness. The most famous student of the greek philosopher socrates was plato, who was born around the year 427 bc in athens, greece. More recent work on book x by myles burnyeat tanner lectures 1999, available for free online, verity harte oxford studies in ancient philosophy, 2010, or the aforementioned 2007 cambridge companion to plato s republic show rather unkindly how annas work has passed over many nuances of book x to arrive at the slamming verdict she does. In this section, many of the authoritarian aspects come to the fore.
Week 3 descartes part 1 transcript ofdescartes part 1. Starting with book i, then, socrates is telling the story, after the fact, of his night in the piraeus, the port of athens. Our story begins as socrates and his friend glaucon head home from a festival. As of early september 2014, randi weingarten, president of the american federation of teachers, had 42,400 tweets to her name. There is a common spirit in the writings of plato, but not a. Heres a joke which i have heard before, but which i heard again the other day, told by one foreign student to another one.
Republic book 1 i wrote these lectures in the mid1990s. Most of what we know today about socrates came from his students. The real riddle, namely the contradiction between the public lecture on the good and repeated statements in plato s written work that it is impos. Stanford professor robert sapolsky discusses depression in u. Freely browse and use ocw materials at your own pace. Laws by plato, part of the internet classics archive. Transcript of descartes part 1 lecture by brian tapia, 2016 rene descartes 1596 1650 is referred as the first modern philosopher. Lectures on the republic of plato by nettleship, richard lewis, 18461892. Symposium establishes philosophy and the life of the philosopher as critical to the good life. Lectures on the republic of plato internet archive.
In such cases, it would seem, platos principle is not quite right. Of course none of this helps us understand his philosophy, but it does help us situate his thought, which will be useful when we come to look at its social and. Unless explicitly set forth in the applicable credits section of a lecture, thirdparty content is not covered under the creative commons license. In the apology, socrates proposes a new kind of citizenship in opposition to the traditional one that was. In the transcripts of his courses one can see strauss commenting on texts, including. This same arithmetical process tells us that this will leave us four meetings free. Aristotle, plotinus, and augustine peter kreeft lecture 3. Platos republic introduction lecture 1 even though we can find all of this information on the internet, we might as well remind ourselves of some of the facts of platos life.
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