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Plato on Beauty - Diotima's Ladder - an animation from Cognitive, script by Nigel Warburton

This is the first of 48 short videos made by Cognitive, scripted by Nigel Warburton, to accompany the BBC Radio 4 series 'A History of Ideas'. 

The Death of Socrates Again...

I reviewed Emily Wilson's interesting book The Death of Socrates some time ago here. For a different take on the same book, see Carlin Romano's 'Socrates in the 21st Century' (yet another good link from the wonderful Arts and Letters Daily).

Angie Hobbs podcast on Plato on War

Is war inevitable, given the human condition? What causes human agression? For Plato's Socrates it comes from innate tendencies nurtured in the wrong way. And that's where war comes from. Angie Hobbs gives a fascinating introduction to this aspect of Plato's Republic in this episode of Philosophy Bites.

Listen to Angie Hobbs on Plato on War

Other Audio Resources

Listen to why Angie Hobbs thinks Plato the greatest of all philosophers

Listen to Angie Hobbs on Plato on Erotic Love (an earlier episode of Philosophy Bites)

Listen to Angie Hobbs discussing Socrates on In Our Time