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September 8 · 1 hr 18 min
19. Waves
For more information about Professor Shankar's book based on the lectures from this course, Fundamentals of Physics: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics, visit http://bit.ly/1jFIqNu. Fundamentals of Physics (PHYS 200) Waves are discussed in further detail. Basic properties of the waves such as velocity, energy, intensity, and frequency are discussed through a variety of examples. The second half of the lecture deals specifically with superposition of waves. Constructive and destructive interferences are defined and discussed. 00:00 - Chapter 1. General Solution of Wave Equation 08:51 - Chapter 2. Spatial and Temporal Periodicity: Frequency, Period 17:39 - Chapter 3. Wave Energy and Power Transmitted 30:02 - Chapter 4. Doppler Effect 38:58 - Chapter 5. Superposition of Waves 48:57 - Chapter 6. Constructive and Destructive Interference, Double Slit Experiment 01:01:30 - Chapter 7. Modes of Vibration: Application to Musical Instruments Complete course materials are available at the Yale Online website: online.yale.edu This course was recorded in Fall 2006. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 8 · 8 min
Systems Thinking Fundamentals and Wicked Problems | Connected Leadership with Peter Boyd
Most problems worth solving are wicked: complex, changing, conflict-prone, and connected. This video introduces the four Cs of wicked problems and shows how systems thinking, drawing on indigenous and traditional wisdom, gives you the tools to face them. Key topics: - Why most problems worth solving are wicked - The four Cs: complex, change, conflict-prone, connected - Systems thinking principles you already know - Traditional sayings as systems thinking insights - Relational systems thinking and indigenous knowledge 📚 About the Course: This course is designed to maximize your ability to create change at the individual, team and system levels. Through study, reflection, and deploying practical tools, you will establish a firm connection between your clearly articulated Purpose, effective Priorities, visualized Potential for success, and pathway to maximized Progress. But, what does that mean in practice? When you take this course, you will: Improve your ability to get the most out of life: Learn a simple practice to reflect on your purpose, clarify priorities, visualize your potential, and maximize your effectiveness at progressing towards your goals. Strengthen your leadership toolkit: Tap into your unique leadership style and strengths and join or create a community of others to maximize your potential as a team. Create change through systems thinking: Become a more effective agent of positive change and appreciate the power and complexity of system thinking. Course Takeaways: Improve your ability to get the most out of life Strengthen your leadership toolkit Practice and apply systems thinking to plan for change 📺 Watch the full playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNezZEnhZC8dS3AvTnzOiB0Ij 🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/connected-leadership 🌐 Explore more learning opportunities on Yale Online: https://online.yale.edu/courses/connected-leadership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 8 · 6 min
Why the same management style fails half your team | Connected Leadership
The skill versus will 2x2 helps you diagnose where each team member sits and choose the right leadership response. This lesson walks through all four quadrants and the actions that move people toward empowered, high-performing work. Key topics: - Mapping team members on skill vs. will - Empowering the high skill, high will quadrant - Encouraging the high skill, low will quadrant - Training the high will, low skill quadrant - Moving people out of the low will, low skill box - Using the matrix as a table for team development 📚 About the Course: This course is designed to maximize your ability to create change at the individual, team and system levels. Through study, reflection, and deploying practical tools, you will establish a firm connection between your clearly articulated Purpose, effective Priorities, visualized Potential for success, and pathway to maximized Progress. But, what does that mean in practice? When you take this course, you will: Improve your ability to get the most out of life: Learn a simple practice to reflect on your purpose, clarify priorities, visualize your potential, and maximize your effectiveness at progressing towards your goals. Strengthen your leadership toolkit: Tap into your unique leadership style and strengths and join or create a community of others to maximize your potential as a team. Create change through systems thinking: Become a more effective agent of positive change and appreciate the power and complexity of system thinking. Course Takeaways: Improve your ability to get the most out of life Strengthen your leadership toolkit Practice and apply systems thinking to plan for change 📺 Watch the full playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNezZEnhZC8dS3AvTnzOiB0Ij 🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/connected-leadership 🌐 Explore more learning opportunities on Yale Online: https://online.yale.edu/courses/connected-leadership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 8 · 43 min
1. Introduction: What is Political Philosophy?
Introduction to Political Philosophy (PLSC 114) Professor Smith discusses the nature and scope of "political philosophy." The oldest of the social sciences, the study of political philosophy must begin with the works of Plato and Aristotle, and examine in depth the fundamental concepts and categories of the study of politics. The questions "which regimes are best?" and "what constitutes good citizenship?" are posed and discussed in the context of Plato's Apology. 00:00 - Chapter 1. What Is Political Philosophy? 12:16 - Chapter 2. What Is a Regime? 22:19 - Chapter 3. Who Is a Statesman? What Is a Statesman? 27:22 - Chapter 4. What Is the Best Regime? Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Fall 2006. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 8 · 1 hr 18 min
7. Kepler's Laws
For more information about Professor Shankar's book based on the lectures from this course, Fundamentals of Physics: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics, visit http://bit.ly/1jFIqNu. Fundamentals of Physics (PHYS 200) The focus of the lecture is problems of gravitational interaction. The three laws of Kepler are stated and explained. Planetary motion is discussed in general, and how this motion applies to the planets moving around the Sun in particular. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Review of Conservative and Non-conservative Forces 09:19 - Chapter 2. Kepler's 3 Laws 20:16 - Chapter 3. Deriving the Nature of Gravitational Force 35:57 - Chapter 4. Derive Orbital Period (T) and Speed (v) in Space 49:47 - Chapter 5. Law of Conservation of Energy Far from Earth Surface 57:37 - Chapter 6. Reference Potential Energy at Infinity or Earth Surface Complete course materials are available at the Yale Online website: online.yale.edu This course was recorded in Fall 2006. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 8 · 1 hr 22 min
22. Repeated games: cheating, punishment, and outsourcing
Game Theory (ECON 159) In business or personal relationships, promises and threats of good and bad behavior tomorrow may provide good incentives for good behavior today, but, to work, these promises and threats must be credible. In particular, they must come from equilibrium behavior tomorrow, and hence form part of a subgame perfect equilibrium today. We find that the grim strategy forms such an equilibrium provided that we are patient and the game has a high probability of continuing. We discuss what this means for the personal relationships of seniors in the class. Then we discuss less draconian punishments, and find there is a trade off between the severity of punishments and the required probability that relationships will endure. We apply this idea to a moral-hazard problem that arises with outsourcing, and find that the high wage premiums found in foreign sectors of emerging markets may be reduced as these relationships become more stable. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Repeated Interaction: The Grim Trigger Strategy in the Prisoner's Dilemma (Continued) 29:21 - Chapter 2. The Grim Trigger Strategy: Generalization and Real World Examples 37:56 - Chapter 3. Cooperation in Repeated Interactions: The "One Period Punishment" Strategy 53:09 - Chapter 4. Cooperation in Repeated Interactions: Repeated Moral Hazard 01:13:53 - Chapter 5. Cooperation in Repeated Interactions: Conclusions Complete course materials are available at the Yale Online website: online.yale.edu This course was recorded in Fall 2007. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 8 · 12 min
What does a Rubik's Cube teach us about leadership? | Connected Leadership
A reflective close to the Connected Leadership journey, revisiting the four Ps (purpose, priorities, potential, progress) plus perseverance across self, team, and system. Through Christiana Figueres's stubborn optimism and a memorable Rubik's Cube analogy, this final lesson sends you off with scaffolding to keep building your leadership. Key topics: - Recap of the four Ps across self, team, and system - Perseverance and stubborn optimism for wicked problems - Confident, curious humility and learning from others - Memorable images and frameworks from the course - The Rubik's Cube analogy for self, team, and system layers - Closing gratitude and the next step in your leadership journey 📚 About the Course: This course is designed to maximize your ability to create change at the individual, team and system levels. Through study, reflection, and deploying practical tools, you will establish a firm connection between your clearly articulated Purpose, effective Priorities, visualized Potential for success, and pathway to maximized Progress. But, what does that mean in practice? When you take this course, you will: Improve your ability to get the most out of life: Learn a simple practice to reflect on your purpose, clarify priorities, visualize your potential, and maximize your effectiveness at progressing towards your goals. Strengthen your leadership toolkit: Tap into your unique leadership style and strengths and join or create a community of others to maximize your potential as a team. Create change through systems thinking: Become a more effective agent of positive change and appreciate the power and complexity of system thinking. Course Takeaways: Improve your ability to get the most out of life Strengthen your leadership toolkit Practice and apply systems thinking to plan for change 📺 Watch the full playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNezZEnhZC8dS3AvTnzOiB0Ij 🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/connected-leadership 🌐 Explore more learning opportunities on Yale Online: https://online.yale.edu/courses/connected-leadership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 8 · 48 min
19. Democracy and Participation: Rousseau's Discourse
Introduction to Political Philosophy (PLSC 114) The discussion on the origins of inequality in the Second Discourse continues. This lecture focuses on amour-propre, a faculty or a disposition that is related to a range of psychological characteristics such as pride, vanity, and conceit. The Social Contract is subsequently discussed with an emphasis on the concept of freedom and how one's desire to preserve one's freedom is often in conflict with that of others to protect and defend their own. General will becomes Rousseau's solution to the problem of securing individual liberty. 00:00 - Chapter 1. "Amour-Propre": The Most Durable Cause of Inequality 20:15 - Chapter 2. Civilization and Its DIscontents 32:06 - Chapter 3. The Social Contract Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Fall 2006. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 8 · 4 min
Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Doyle | Yale School of Nursing Continuing Education Online
Meet Elizabeth Doyle of the Yale School of Nursing. 👋 Through Yale School of Nursing Continuing Education Online, healthcare professionals can access flexible, evidence-based learning designed to help them stay current with the latest advances in diabetes care. Insulin Therapy and Type 2 Diabetes Pharmacology are now available, with additional modules coming soon. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4xKkGjD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 7 · 1 hr 20 min
10. Mixed strategies in baseball, dating and paying your taxes
Game Theory (ECON 159) We develop three different interpretations of mixed strategies in various contexts: sport, anti-terrorism strategy, dating, paying taxes and auditing taxpayers. One interpretation is that people literally randomize over their choices. Another is that your mixed strategy represents my belief about what you might do. A third is that the mixed strategy represents the proportions of people playing each pure strategy. Then we discuss some implications of the mixed equilibrium in games; in particular, we look how the equilibrium changes in the tax-compliance/auditor game as we increase the penalty for cheating on your taxes. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Mixed Strategy Equilibria: Example (Continued) 12:49 - Chapter 2. Mixed Strategy Equilibria: Other Examples in Sports 23:41 - Chapter 3. Mixed Strategy Equilibria Interpretation 1: Literal Randomization 28:17 - Chapter 4. Mixed Strategy Equilibria Interpretation 2: Players' Beliefs about Each Other's Actions 47:04 - Chapter 5. Mixed Strategy Equilibria Interpretation 3: Prediction of Split on Two or More Courses of Action in a Large Population 59:52 - Chapter 6. Mixed Strategy Equilibria: Policy Applications Complete course materials are available at the Yale Online website: online.yale.edu This course was recorded in Fall 2007. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 7 · 54 min
1. Introductions
The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291) In this first lecture Professor Hungerford introduces the course's academic requirements and some of its central concerns. She uses a magazine advertisement for James Joyce's Ulysses and an essay by Vladimir Nabokov (author of Lolita, a novel on the syllabus) to establish opposing points of view about what is required to be a competent reader of literature. The contrast between popular emotional appeal and detached artistic judgment frames literary debates from the Modernist, and through the post-45 period. In the second half of lecture, Hungerford shows how the controversies surrounding the publication of Richard Wright's Black Boy highlight the questions of truth, memory, and autobiography that will continue to resurface throughout the course. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Major Themes 08:07 - Chapter 2. Course Requirements 13:43 - Chapter 3. How To Read: On Joyce and Nabokov 29:30 - Chapter 4. Introduction to Richard Wright's "Black Boy": Autobiography and Editorial Influence 43:58 - Chapter 5. Conclusions: "Black Boy" and Major Course Themes Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Spring 2008. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 7 · 45 min
24. In Defense of Politics
Introduction to Political Philosophy (PLSC 114) This final lecture of the course is given "in defense of politics." First, the idea and definition of "politics" and the "political" are discussed with reference to the ideas of Immanuel Kant and twentieth-century political scientists, novelists, and philosophers such as Bernard Crick, E. M. Forster, and Carl Schmitt. Patriotism, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism are also addressed as integral parts of political life. Finally, the role of educators--and "old books"--is discussed as essential to developing a proper understanding of the political. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Bernard Crick: "In Defense of Politics" 03:55 - Chapter 2. E. M. Forster: PatriotIsm and Loyalty 07:29 - Chapter 3. Carl Schmitt and Aristotle: Patriotism and Loyalty 12:24 - Chapter 4. Immanuel Kant: Transpolitical Cosmopolitanism 16:17 - Chapter 5. Schmitt vs. Kant: NationalIsm vs. Cosmopolitanism 25:45 - Chapter 6. Ethos of the American Regime 33:05 - Chapter 7. Where Should the Study of Political Science Be Today? Who Should Educate the Educators? Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Fall 2006. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 7 · 16 min
6.2 | Uncovering Real Needs: From User Voice to Stakeholders in Medical Software Course
How do you truly understand what your medical software users need? In this lesson, we continue our deep dive into identifying user needs, emphasizing the critical distinction between the engineer's perspective and the customer's actual requirements. We explore practical strategies for engaging with users, from conducting effective initial meetings to asking the right questions that uncover both known and unknown challenges. Learn to look beyond superficial requests to diagnose the true underlying problems and consider all relevant stakeholders to ensure your solution addresses the complete picture. 🎯 Learning Objectives • Differentiate between the voice of the engineer and the voice of the customer in software development. • Implement strategies for effective initial user meetings, focusing on understanding backgrounds and project interests. • Employ techniques to uncover unknown user needs, such as asking open-ended questions and restating problems. • Analyze the true nature of a problem by considering factors like quality, affordability, and user skill. • Broaden the definition of a "user" to include all relevant stakeholders and their unique requirements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 7 · 8 min
806 | Stay Grounded: Organize Your Social Enterprise Resources - Social Entrepreneurship Course
In this lesson, discover essential advice for social entrepreneurs navigating the often-overwhelming world of funders and incubators. Learn to stay grounded in your core mission, avoid the trap of entrepreneurial hype, and strategically organize information about financial and non-financial resources to ensure wise decision-making at every stage of your social enterprise journey. 🎯 Learning Objectives • Understand the importance of aligning with funders and supporters who share your social mission. • Learn how to create a "resource dashboard" to organize potential support by development stage. • Identify key categories of information to track for each resource, such as expertise and funding. • Recognize the strategic benefit of knowing when to approach prospective funders and supporters. 📚 About the Course Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create real change? You don't have to start your own organization to make a difference in the world. Everyone can learn the social entrepreneurship mindset and skillset to build social impact. In this course, you will immerse yourself in a social or environmental challenge you want to tackle. You'll start by researching your topic of choice, talking to people, and ideating a potential solution that you can contribute. Then, you'll build a business model around that solution, understanding concepts like measuring social change, ensuring financial viability, funding and pitching. This course is a safe space to experiment and explore. You'll be guided by a ten stage framework to help structure your journey. Along the way, you'll hear from social entrepreneurs around the world through case studies and campus conversations. These include Yale alumni, members of the New Haven community, and global changemakers. Everyone is welcome to join this course! You can apply your lived, learned, or professional experience to discover how you're going to make a difference. #SocialEntrepreneurship #YaleCourse #Impact #Changemakers #BusinessPlan #DesignThinking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 7 · 5 min
Creating Lasting Change at the System Level | Connected Leadership with Peter Boyd
How do you keep system change from fizzling out? Walk through the four Ps applied to systems and learn why the most meaningful change often happens at the intersections between sectors, groups, and cultures rather than deep inside any one of them. Key topics: - Asking why at every layer of the system - Priorities, causal loops, and leverage - Visualizing intended and unintended consequences - Working across sectors and at the intersections - Staying curious, humble, and connected 📚 About the Course: This course is designed to maximize your ability to create change at the individual, team and system levels. Through study, reflection, and deploying practical tools, you will establish a firm connection between your clearly articulated Purpose, effective Priorities, visualized Potential for success, and pathway to maximized Progress. But, what does that mean in practice? When you take this course, you will: Improve your ability to get the most out of life: Learn a simple practice to reflect on your purpose, clarify priorities, visualize your potential, and maximize your effectiveness at progressing towards your goals. Strengthen your leadership toolkit: Tap into your unique leadership style and strengths and join or create a community of others to maximize your potential as a team. Create change through systems thinking: Become a more effective agent of positive change and appreciate the power and complexity of system thinking. Course Takeaways: Improve your ability to get the most out of life Strengthen your leadership toolkit Practice and apply systems thinking to plan for change 📺 Watch the full playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNezZEnhZC8dS3AvTnzOiB0Ij 🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/connected-leadership 🌐 Explore more learning opportunities on Yale Online: https://online.yale.edu/courses/connected-leadership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 7 · 5 min
Writing Your System Problem Statement | Connected Leadership with Peter Boyd
A sharp problem statement turns a sprawling cause into something you can actually act on. Learn how to scope a system that's big enough to matter but small enough to influence, with examples from community solar and an electric utility. Key topics: - Naming your system and sizing the scope - Drafting and iterating your problem statement - Substituting definitions to find what you really mean - A community solar example - An electric utility's path from "lights on" to consumer trust 📚 About the Course: This course is designed to maximize your ability to create change at the individual, team and system levels. Through study, reflection, and deploying practical tools, you will establish a firm connection between your clearly articulated Purpose, effective Priorities, visualized Potential for success, and pathway to maximized Progress. But, what does that mean in practice? When you take this course, you will: Improve your ability to get the most out of life: Learn a simple practice to reflect on your purpose, clarify priorities, visualize your potential, and maximize your effectiveness at progressing towards your goals. Strengthen your leadership toolkit: Tap into your unique leadership style and strengths and join or create a community of others to maximize your potential as a team. Create change through systems thinking: Become a more effective agent of positive change and appreciate the power and complexity of system thinking. Course Takeaways: Improve your ability to get the most out of life Strengthen your leadership toolkit Practice and apply systems thinking to plan for change 📺 Watch the full playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNezZEnhZC8dS3AvTnzOiB0Ij 🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/connected-leadership 🌐 Explore more learning opportunities on Yale Online: https://online.yale.edu/courses/connected-leadership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 7 · 5 min
Why you should write goals as if you've already achieved them | Connected Leadership
Move into the third P by picturing what success looks like a year from now for each of your rocks. Learn how to write testable, past-tense statements with both quantitative and qualitative detail so you can toast the wins when they arrive. Key topics: - Setting a meaningful one-year horizon - Writing testable statements in the past tense - Stretching without overreaching - Adding numbers to personal goals - Using descriptive qualitative detail - Crafting potential statements for each rock 📚 About the Course: This course is designed to maximize your ability to create change at the individual, team and system levels. Through study, reflection, and deploying practical tools, you will establish a firm connection between your clearly articulated Purpose, effective Priorities, visualized Potential for success, and pathway to maximized Progress. But, what does that mean in practice? When you take this course, you will: Improve your ability to get the most out of life: Learn a simple practice to reflect on your purpose, clarify priorities, visualize your potential, and maximize your effectiveness at progressing towards your goals. Strengthen your leadership toolkit: Tap into your unique leadership style and strengths and join or create a community of others to maximize your potential as a team. Create change through systems thinking: Become a more effective agent of positive change and appreciate the power and complexity of system thinking. Course Takeaways: Improve your ability to get the most out of life Strengthen your leadership toolkit Practice and apply systems thinking to plan for change 📺 Watch the full playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNezZEnhZC8dS3AvTnzOiB0Ij 🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/connected-leadership 🌐 Explore more learning opportunities on Yale Online: https://online.yale.edu/courses/connected-leadership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 7 · 2 hr 13 min
Class 2 - Yongshan Ding: Quantum Codes, Stabilizers, and Computation
This video is the live capture of the Yale Quantum Institute Course on Quantum Error Correction, held at the Yale University in July 2025, in partnership with NC A&T. This short course will provide viewers strong foundation on Quantum Error Detection & Quantum Error Correction. Viewers are encouraged to take an introduction to quantum information science before viewing this content. Thank you to the Yale ASCEND Initiative for making this short course possible. And for more information on everything quantum at Yale, visit quantuminstitute.yale.edu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 7 · 4 min
System Priorities and Leverage Points | Connected Leadership with Peter Boyd
Where can a small shift produce big change? This video translates Jay Forrester and Donella Meadows' insights on leverage into a practical seesaw model so you can choose the right level to push, from surface events to underlying beliefs. Key topics: - Forrester's quote on leverage and small shifts - The seesaw model linking iceberg layers to leverage - Why mental models offer the most leverage - Meadows' league table of system change levels - Identifying three to five rocks of system change 📚 About the Course: This course is designed to maximize your ability to create change at the individual, team and system levels. Through study, reflection, and deploying practical tools, you will establish a firm connection between your clearly articulated Purpose, effective Priorities, visualized Potential for success, and pathway to maximized Progress. But, what does that mean in practice? When you take this course, you will: Improve your ability to get the most out of life: Learn a simple practice to reflect on your purpose, clarify priorities, visualize your potential, and maximize your effectiveness at progressing towards your goals. Strengthen your leadership toolkit: Tap into your unique leadership style and strengths and join or create a community of others to maximize your potential as a team. Create change through systems thinking: Become a more effective agent of positive change and appreciate the power and complexity of system thinking. Course Takeaways: Improve your ability to get the most out of life Strengthen your leadership toolkit Practice and apply systems thinking to plan for change 📺 Watch the full playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNezZEnhZC8dS3AvTnzOiB0Ij 🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/connected-leadership 🌐 Explore more learning opportunities on Yale Online: https://online.yale.edu/courses/connected-leadership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 7 · 53 min
4. Philosophers and Kings: Plato's Republic, I-II
Introduction to Political Philosophy (PLSC 114) Lecture 4 introduces Plato's Republic and its many meanings in the context of moral psychology, justice, the power of poetry and myth, and metaphysics. The Republic is also discussed as a utopia, presenting an extreme vision of a polis--Kallipolis--Plato's ideal city. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction 03:04 - Chapter 2. What Is Plato's "Republic" About? 17:38 - Chapter 3. I Went Down to the Piraeus 22:05 - Chapter 4. The Seventh Letter 30:00 - Chapter 5. Analyzing the Beginning of "Republic" and the Hierarchy of Characters 38:13 - Chapter 6. Cephalus Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Fall 2006. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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