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Socratic Method used in law school
Socrates on Self-Confidence
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Socratic Method Report:
Vectorization of Inverse
Dialectical Constructions
Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues
(16 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 463
Taught by Michael Sugrue
Princeton University
Ph.D., Columbia University
Great Books: Plato's
Republic
VHS
DVD
PLATO
The dialogues of Plato are analyzed in this program
by world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee
and Cambridge philosophy professor Myles Burnyeat.
Preview Clip available.
The Minds of Men
A look at the life and teachings of Socrates and
Plato.
This program scrutinizes The Republic, a work that has intrigued and infuriated for thousands of years. Was Plato’s plan for an ideal city—a place where philosophers are rulers and wisdom is the cornerstone of society—a blueprint, a satire, or a bit of both? Columbia University’s Bonnie Kent; Princeton University’s Alexander Nehamas; Martha Nussbaum, of The University of Chicago; Thomas Pangle, of the University of Toronto; poet Joseph Brodsky; novelist Joyce Carol Oates; William Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education; and radio personality Michael Savage consider the worth of a system that promotes the common good through state control that, by necessity, must involve censorship and eugenics. A Discovery University Production. (48 minutes, color)
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