Plato Courses and Certifications

Ancient Philosophy: Plato & His Predecessors

13 ratings

Trace the birth of Western philosophy: study the Milesians, Heraclitus, Parmenides and the atomists, then Socrates and Plato on virtue, justice, knowledge and the Forms.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 21 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Why did Plato Write? Philosophy, Dialogue, and Dialectic (Live Online)

40 ratings at CourseHorse

Examine the relationship between dialogue, writing and philosophy through a close study of influential classical texts.

• CourseHorse
• Self-Paced
• $355.00

A Genealogy of Eros: Plato, Sappho, Foucault (Live Online)

33 ratings at CourseHorse

Explore eros as madness, self-knowledge, and self-making through Plato’s dialogues, Sappho’s lyric poetry, and Foucault’s genealogy of ancient sexuality.

• CourseHorse
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• $335.00

Plato's Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul - Part II

1 rating

Examines Plato’s arguments for the soul’s immortality in the Phaedo, including arguments from the Forms, recycling, and recollection.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Plato's Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul - Part 3 - Lecture 8

Examines Plato’s argument from simplicity for the soul’s indestructibility and immortality, including objections from Cebes and Simmias.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Philosophers and Kings - Plato's Republic, Books III-IV - Lecture 5

Examines how Socrates challenges competing accounts of justice and develops the just city through Plato’s Republic.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Philosophers and Kings - Plato's Republic, Books I-II

An introduction to Plato’s Republic, examining its account of justice, ideal city, moral psychology, poetry, and myth through the dialogue’s opening books.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Plato, Socrates, and the Birth of Western Philosophy | 西方哲学精神探源

1 rating

Explore the works of Plato, Aristotle, Heraclitus and other originators of Western philosophy in an immersive study of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. This course explores the origins of the spi

• edX
• 16 weeks, 1-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Plato, Socrates, and the Birth of Western Philosophy

Explore the works of Plato, Aristotle, Heraclitus and other originators of Western philosophy in an immersive study of ancient Greek and Roman philoso

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

NPTEL-NOC IITM

The Foundations of Western Philosophy - Introduction, Challenge to Poetry, Plato and Aristotle

1 rating

Explore the origins of Western philosophical thought, examining key thinkers like Plato and Aristotle and their impact on poetry and intellectual discourse.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Masters of Greek Thought: Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle

69 ratings at The Great Courses Plus

An in-depth examination of how Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle transformed philosophy through questions of justice, virtue, happiness, and political life.

• The Great Courses Plus
• 18 hours 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Reason and Persuasion: Thinking Through Three Dialogues By Plato

5 ratings

Read three Platonic dialogues — Euthyphro, Meno, Republic Book I — on holiness, virtue and justice, then test them against contemporary moral psychology from Haidt and Greene.

• Coursera
• 33 hours
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course

Death with Shelly Kagan

This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality.

• YouTube
• 21 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

活用希臘哲學 (Understanding the Greek Philosophy)

250 ratings at Coursera

比較先蘇哲學、詭辯學派、蘇格拉底、柏拉圖與亞里斯多德，理解希臘哲學如何形塑西洋哲學的批判理性傳統。

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The Ancient Greek Hero

10 ratings at edX

Discover the literature and heroes of ancient Greece through the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey , the tragedies of Sophocles, the dialogues of Plato, and more.

• edX
• 18 weeks, 8-12 hours a week
• Not Currently Offered
• Free Certificate