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How to Live Like Socrates
Welcome: Before we Even Begin
Video: Welcome to the Course (10:33)
Welcome Letter from Donald Robertson
Discussion: Say Hello!
Facebook Community
Favourite Quotations from Socrates
Video: The Life of Socrates (20:54)
Timeline of Socrates' Life
Map of Important Locations in Socrates' Life
Video: The Cardinal Virtues (15:30)
Infographic: The Cardinal Virtues (Tetramorph)
Reference: The Socratic Dialogues
YouTube Live Webinars
Welcome Quiz
Comic: The Stoic Socrates
Recommended Reading
Substack Newsletter and Podcast
Welcome: What Next?
Welcome: Bonus Material
Video: Socrates, Stoicism, and Cognitive Therapy
Watch "Barefoot in Athens" (1966)
Article: How did Socrates Earn a Living?
Three Webcomics
Week 1: Wisdom and the Socratic Method
Week 1: Introduction
Week 1: YouTube Live Webinar
Video: The Story of the Socratic Method (24:10)
Article: Socratic Irony and Midwifery
Video: On Wisdom and Virtue (Euthydemus) (19:44)
Discuss Excerpt: The Apology
Article: How to use the Socratic Method
Video: Socratic Questioning and Cognitive Therapy (12:00)
Exercise: Socrates' Two-Column Technique
Article: Philosophy as Love of Wisdom (Symposium)
Exercise: Values Clarification
Knowledge Check: Wisdom and the Socratic Method
Week 1: What Next?
Week 1: Optional Bonus Material
Infographic: The Socratic Schools
Article: The Socratic Schools
Article: Socrates in Old Comedy
Week 2: Temperance and Philosophy as a Way of Life
Week 2: Introduction
Week 2: YouTube Live Webinar
Video: The Choice of Hercules (Prodicus) (15:38)
Article: Cephalus on Contentment (Republic Book 1)
Article: Socrates on Temperance (Charmides)
Socrates on Self-Control (Memorabilia)
Video: Living in Accord with Virtue (11:01)
Discuss Excerpt: Exhortation to Self-Control (Memorabilia)
Knowledge Check: Temperance and Philosophy as a Way of Life
Week 2: What Next?
Week 2: Optional Bonus Material
Article: Socrates the Soldier
The Content of Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates
Week 3: Justice and Friendship
Week 3: Introduction
Week 3: YouTube Live Webinar
Video: The Quarrel Between Brothers (Chaerecrates) (10:04)
Video: Socrates on Friendship (Memorabilia) (14:09)
Video: Earning Friendship (Critobulus) (7:52)
Article: On Friendship (Lysis)
Video: Justice as Helping our Friends (Polemarchus) (16:51)
Video: Justice as the Interest of the Stronger (Thrasymachus Part 1) (21:23)
Article: Injustice as Self-Interest (Thrasymachus Part 2)
Discuss Excerpt: Socrates' Friends React to his Sentence
Exercise: Cultivating the Values of Friendship
Knowledge Check: Justice and Friendship
Week 3: What Next?
Week 3: Optional Bonus Material
Article: Socrates and Parenting (Lamprocles)
Article: The Battle of Arginusae
Article: Socrates on Finding Jobs for Refugees
Week 4: Courage and Death
Week 4: Introduction
Week 4: YouTube Live Webinar
Video: Socrates on Facing Death (Apology) (17:16)
Video: The Consolations of Philosophy (Axiochus) (17:47)
Video: The Stoicism of Socrates (Republic) (11:05)
Video: Socrates on Courage (Laches) (16:03)
Video: Socrates on Courage (22:25)
Exercise: Generating Alternative Cognitions
Article: Last Days, Trial, and Execution
Discuss Excerpt: The Death of Socrates
Knowledge Check: Courage and Facing Death
Would you Recommend the Course?
Week 4: What Next?
Week 4: Optional Bonus Material
Article: Critias and the Thirty Tyrants
Reference: Classifying the Platonic Dialogues (Thrasylus)
Video: The Choice of Hercules (Prodicus)
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