"What is the best way of life for a human being?" The Republic is the most complete attempt by Plato to articulate and answer this question. It is characteristic of Plato that, in the Republic, questions about human happiness ultimately cannot be separated from questions of education, of the nature of the city, of the various forms of government, of the structure of the human soul, and of the character of the gods and being itself.
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This week, we wrapped up an 8 week summer course on this very topic with Sr. Fellow Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos. We now present you with the first lecture from this excellent course.
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Ep. 097 - Victory Has Defeated You
Ep. 096 - Boethius and Business
Ep. 095 - A Harmonious Home
Ep. 094 - What is Man?
Ep. 093 - The Light of Fidelity
Ep. 092 - Freedom from the Shackle
Ep.091 - Rousseau and the Imagination
Ep. 090 - Freeing Minds
Ep. 089 - On Moral Conundrums
Ep. 088 - On How to Communicate Rhetorically
Ep. 087 - On The Idea of a University
Ep. 085 - On Music & Ratio
Ep. 084 - Opening the Eyes to See
Ep. 083 - A Prudent Education
Ep. 082 - A Magnus Webinar: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale of Chanticleer and the Fox
Ep.081 - How Does One Know?
Ep. 080 - Humanizing Humans
Ep. 079 - Much Ado about a King
Ep. 078 - The Restless Soul
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