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"Live Like a Philosopher," Lecture 4.1. Topics covered: problems for Plato's view of the just life; the role of reason in the good life; knowledge vs. belief. This lecture includes subtitles to enhance your learning experience. If you prefer to read along or if English is not your first language, please click the "CC" button located at the bottom of the video player to enable captions. Illustra...

"Live Like a Philosopher," Lecture 3.2. Topics covered: introducing Plato's Republic; Glaucon's challenge; Plato's tripartite theory of human psychology; the just life as the happy life. This lecture includes subtitles to enhance your learning experience. If you prefer to read along or if English is not your first language, please click the "CC" button located at the bottom of the video player ...

"Live Like a Philosopher," Lecture 3.1. Topics covered: Plato's Gorgias; Callicles' challenge to the philosophical life; Socrates' cross-examination of Callicles; Callicles' hedonism; rhetoric vs. philosophy. This lecture includes subtitles to enhance your learning experience. If you prefer to read along or if English is not your first language, please click the "CC" button located at the botto...

"Live Like a Philosopher," Lecture 2.1. Topics covered: Socrates' heroism; the Socratic method in action; more of Plato's Apology. This lecture includes subtitles to enhance your learning experience. If you prefer to read along or if English is not your first language, please click the "CC" button located at the bottom of the video player to enable captions. Illustrations by Natalie Horberg.

"Live Like a Philosopher," Lecture 2.2. Topics covered: Plato's Symposium; Socrates' refutation of Agathon; Diotima's speech on love; "giving birth in beauty"; seeing the beauty in Socrates. This lecture includes subtitles to enhance your learning experience. If you prefer to read along or if English is not your first language, please click the "CC" button located at the bottom of the video pla...

"Live Like a Philosopher," Lecture 1.2. Topics covered: introduction to reading Plato; the figure of Socrates; Plato's Apology; the Socratic method. This lecture includes subtitles to enhance your learning experience. If you prefer to read along or if English is not your first language, please click the "CC" button located at the bottom of the video player to enable captions. Illustrations by N...

"Live Like a Philosopher," Lecture 1.1. Topics covered: introduction to philosophy and to the idea of philosophy as a way of life; outline of course. This lecture includes subtitles to enhance your learning experience. If you prefer to read along or if English is not your first language, please click the "CC" button located at the bottom of the video player to enable captions. Illustrations by ...

"Live Like a Philosopher," Lecture 6.2. Topics covered: three criteria for virtuous action; phronēsis as a master virtue; the role of friendship in the good life; blindspots/challenges for Aristotle's ethical theory. If you prefer to read along or if English is not your first language, please click the "CC" button located at the bottom of the video player to enable captions. Illustrations by Na...

"Live Like a Philosopher," Lecture 6.1. Topics covered: Aristotle on the fragility of the good life; the need for politics and external goods; the importance of habituation; Aristotle's particularism. If you prefer to read along or if English is not your first language, please click the "CC" button located at the bottom of the video player to enable captions. Illustrations by Natalie Horberg.

"Live Like a Philosopher," Lecture 5.2. Topics covered: happiness as eudaimonia; Aristotle on what the human good is not; the function argument; reason and virtue. If you prefer to read along or if English is not your first language, please click the "CC" button located at the bottom of the video player to enable captions. Illustrations by Natalie Horberg.

"Live Like a Philosopher," Lecture 5.1. Topics covered: the distinctiveness of Greco-Roman approaches to ethics; Aristotle's metaphysics; potentiality and actuality; Aristotle on the human good. If you prefer to read along or if English is not your first language, please click the "CC" button located at the bottom of the video player to enable captions. Illustrations by Natalie Horberg.