Given how helpful Steven B. Smith (of Yale) was on the Republic, I had to check him out this time around for Aristotle’s Politics. Watch the first Aristotle lecture on YouTube. Get the audio from iTunes. In Smith’s three lectures, you can learn:
Steven B. Smith Lectures on Plato’s “Republic”
After our Locke episode, I blogged re. this Steven B. Smith introduction to political philosophy course from Yale, but in the case of the Plato episode, I actually used these three lectures as part of my preparation and discussed them on the show: Watch the first Plato lecture on Youtube. Get the audio from iTunes.
Steven B. Smith’s Intro to Political Philosophy Course
You can watch what appears to be all the lectures of a Yale introduction to political philosophy course from Steven B. Smith. The first is lecture is here but at this point, I want to call attention to his lectures on Locke, the first of the three being the following: Watch on youtube. I’ve not listened past the first few Continue Reading …