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Desc: | This is a special section of the "Great Philosophers" course, different in three ways. First, it is limited to FIRST-YEAR students. Second, it is limited to fifteen students. Third, it focuses on just two great philosophers, Plato, the greatest of them all, and Socrates, his inspiration. In a small, discussion-based seminar, we will carefully study a series of Plato's dialogues, each of them featuring Socrates, in order to think hard about what Socrates and Plato were proposing when they proposed that we should live philosophically. But the question of why we need philosophy will inevitably involve also the question of why so many people oppose it, and for that, we will start with a play by Aristophanes. |
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| Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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