This course contains a series of lectures designed to complement the study of the selection of short Platonic dialogues which are required reading in the Great Hearts curriculum (namely the Meno, Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Crito). Each of these will receive a stand-alone commentary offering comprehensive readings of each dialogue. That is, close readings are provided, "front-to-back," of each of the dialogues in turn treating them as self-contained wholes and highlighting features that are particularly fruitful for conversation in Humane Letters seminars. Each dialogue will be treated in segments, varying in length according to the section of the dialogue under consideration.
The intention of the series as a whole is to offer intermediate students of Plato some food for thought and perhaps refresh the reading of the dialogues for those more advanced students by pointing out some key details that make for novel and provocative interpretations. The expectation is that auditors will have some significant familiarity with the dialogues I'll be discussing, either from reading them on their own, or for a class, but ideally from having studied them in seminar with, or preferably as, students, or with colleagues. If you have not had the opportunity to read and discuss these dialogues, it is strongly recommended that you read and then re-read them carefully.
Leader: Dr. Michael Ivins, Humane Letters Master Teacher, Great Hearts Academies
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