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These 16 lectures bring the Socratic search for real truth alive and explore ideas that are as essential today as they were 25 centuries in the past - ideas about real truth, justice, love, beauty, courage, and wisdom that can change lives and show the globe in new ways. Here, you'll explore the inner framework, action, and meaning of 17 of Plato's very best dialogues, making these lectures an essential companion for anyone interested in beliefs generally or Platonic thought specifically. As you'll learn, the dialogues talk about some general characteristics - plus they all breathe with the feeling, the strain, and even the laughter of great movie theater. Even though you don't have a chance to reacquaint yourself straight with Platonic text messages, you'll benefit enormously from these lectures' insights in to the depths of reflection opened up by Socrates and Plato - arguably the most crucial teacher-student pairing ever sold. You'll become engrossed in "the romance of the intellect," as Professor Sugrue starts a path for you in to the inner framework and action of the preferred dialogues, for millennia the items of devoted review by the noblest imagination. These lectures offer no easy answers. What they give instead is much better: an release to Platonic "meta-education," the art work not of what to think but of how to think. You'll see the beautiful subtlety with which Plato weaves mutually the talents of beliefs and poetry, dialectic and episode, word and action. And you'll catch a view of the "serious playfulness" that Socrates says the seek out the good, the true, and the stunning can inspire in the individual soul.
