Lectures

Below are video lectures on the topics indicated.  Each one lasts between 20 and 50 minutes.  The missing Session numbers indicate either a screening or a Discussion Session.  The Outlines are intended to serve as companions to the lecture videos.

 

Session	Video Lecture	Lecture Outlines
1	Introduction: Philosophy as Love Potion	Session 1 Notes
3	Exotica	Session 3 Notes
4	Plato, Symposium, Phaedrus and Pausanias	Session 4 Notes
6	Andre Dubus, "Falling in Love"	Session 6 Notes
7	Plato, Phaedrus, Lysias and Socrates' first speech	Session 7 Notes
9	Phaedrus, Socrates' second speech	Session 9 Notes
10	Thomas Mann, Death in Venice	Session 10 Notes
12	Symposium, Eryximachus	Session 12 Notes
13	Symposium, Aristophanes	Session 13 Notes
15	The Hairdresser's Husband	Session 15 Notes
16	Matthew 19 and Genesis 1-3	Session 16 Notes
18	Symposium, Socrates and Diotima	Session 18 Notes
19	The Lord of the Rings	Session 19 Notes
21	Mind the Gap	Session 21 Notes
22	Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae; Dubus, "All the Time in the World"	Session 22 Notes
24	William Shakespeare, Othello, (Acts 1-3)	Session 24 Notes
25	Othello, (Acts 4-5)	Session 25 Notes
27	Hannah and Her Sisters	Session 27 Notes
28	Dubus, "The Timing of Sin"	Session 28 Notes
30	The Secret Lives of Dentists	Session 30 Notes
31	Dubus, "Out of the Snow"	Session 31 Notes
32	Babette's Feast	Session 32 Notes
34	Proof	Session 34 Notes
35	Symposium, Alcibiades	Session 35 Notes
37	Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream	Session 37 Notes
38	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Session 38 Notes
40	Phaedrus, Socrates' second speech	Session 40 Notes