PEL Extra: Great Discourses on Plato (Excerpt)

Summary: PEL is partnering with <a href="http://greatdiscourses.com/" target="_blank">Great Discourses</a> to offer something like the PEL experience to YOU, led by professional educators in discussion with no tests, no grades, just a great environment to get a grasp on great literature. Just go to <a href="http://www.greatdiscourses.com" target="_blank">greatdiscourses.com</a> and use the code PELIFE when checking out. Use the code as many times as you want!<br> Mark and GD honcho Adam Rose explain further, and then you can hear a chunk of one of Adam's seminars to know what it's like. And even if you don't care, this is an interesting seminar: It concerns Plato's "Apology" and "Crito" and really serves as an excellent preface to our ep. 142 on "Phaedrus." Adam raises the point that on the one hand, Socrates famously dislikes poetry and rhetoric as empty calories as compared with nutritious philosophy. But Plato, who's writing about Socrates, is himself a great poet, and his characters give great speeches. So what are we to make of this apparent conflict?<br> If you <a href="http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/membership-options/" target="_blank">become a PEL Citizen</a>, you can join <a href="http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/groups/great-discourses/" target="_blank">a Not School group for Great Discourses</a> and get 20% off all courses instead of 15% with a Citizen-only discount code (which effectively makes your Citizenship free for a bit). Also, we've posted <a href="http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2016/06/24/great-discourses-the-trial-and-death-of-socrates-excerpts/" target="_blank">a whole, hour-long seminar</a> for PEL Citizens to listen to, also from this course (on "Apology" and "Phaedo").<br> And no, <a href="http://greatdiscourses.com" target="_blank">Great Discourses</a> is not affiliated with PEL sponsor <a href="http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/PEL" target="_blank">The Great Courses</a>.<br>