Video and Podcast Resources On Plato's Meno and Phaedo
17 video lectures and 17 podcast lectures on these two platonic dialogues
I’ve previously provided two resource pages of organized links to my video and podcast lectures on Platonic dialogues, one on his Symposium, and the other on four short dialogues. Given the extent of the lectures I have developed for my students and have made available to the general, it is probably about time that I created a resource page for two other longer dialogues I routinely teach, the Meno and the Phaedo.
There are connections between those two particular dialogues and the four shorter dialogues I created the earlier resource page on. Towards the end of the Meno, we glimpse Socrates inadvertently offending a person who will shortly become one of his younger accusers, Anytus. The Phaedo recounts Socrates’ last day alive, spent discussing metaphysics and ethics with his friends and students. Both of these dialogues are also well worth reading in their own right, since they articulate key Platonic arguments, distinctions, and ideas.
So here are those links to resources on these two diaogues. 17 video lectures and 17 corresponding podcast lectures leading you through every main concept worked out in the Meno and the Phaedo. I hope that you find them to be useful resources if you choose to study these majorly important Platonic dialogues!
The Meno
Attempts To Define Virtue | watch video | listen to podcast
Socrates The Stingray | watch video | listen to podcast
The Meno Paradox | watch video | listen to podcast
The Doctrine Of Recollection | watch video | listen to podcast
Goods, Knowledge, And Desire | watch video | listen to podcast
Can Virtue Be Taught? | watch video | listen to podcast
Knowledge And Right Opinion | watch video | listen to podcast
The Phaedo
Philosophy As Preparation For Death | watch video | listen to podcast
Philosophical Temperance And Courage | watch video | listen to podcast
The Body As Prison To The Soul | watch video | listen to podcast
Suicide And Readiness For Death | watch video | listen to podcast
Misology And Misanthropy | watch video | listen to podcast
Recollection And The Forms | watch video | listen to podcast
The Argument From Opposites | watch video | listen to podcast
Is The Soul A Harmony? | watch video | listen to podcast
Does The Soul Wear Out? | watch video | listen to podcast
The Myth Of The Afterlife | watch video | listen to podcast