Lectures

Session Title Files
1 Course Introduction; Introduction to The Republic
Lecture 1 Notes
2
Plato, The Republic: Reading a Platonic Dialogue
Lecture 2 Notes
3
Plato, The Republic: Thrasymachus Defeated! and Morality as a Craft
Lecture 3 Notes
4
Plato, The Republic: Inner Politics, Inner Morality
Lecture 4 Notes
5
Plato, The Republic: Inner and Outer Morality
Lecture 5 Notes
6
Plato, The Republic: The Pieces Come Together Lecture 6 Notes
7 Plato, The Republic: Plato's Theory of Knowledge
Lecture 7 Notes
8
Aristotle, Introduction Lecture 8 Notes
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Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics: Human Function and Moral Virtue
Lecture 9 Notes
10
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics: Aristotle on Friendship
Lecture 10 Notes
11
Aristotle Wrap Up and Introducing Thomas Aquinas
Lecture 11 Notes
12
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae: Thomas on Happiness
Lecture 12 Notes
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Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae: Thomas's Metaphysics of Happiness
Lecture 13 Notes
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Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae: Refining Happiness and Introducing Law 
Lecture 14 Notes
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Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae: The Essence of Law
Lecture 15 Notes
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Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae: The Kinds of Law
Lecture 16 Notes
17 Descartes, Introduction and Meditation 1
Lecture 17 Notes
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Descartes, Meditation 2
Lecture 18 Notes
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Descartes, Meditation 5 Lecture 19 Notes
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Descartes, Meditation 6 and Legacy
Lecture 20 Notes
21
Thomas Hobbes, Introduction
Lecture 21 Notes
22
Hobbes, Leviathan: Humanity and the State
Lecture 22 Notes
23
Dostoevski, The Grand Inquisitor: The Problem of Evil
Lecture 23 Notes
24
Dostoevski, The Grand Inquisitor: How Would We Treat Jesus?
Lecture 24 Notes
25
Dostoevski, The Grand Inquisitor: Three Temptations Lecture 25 Notes
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