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Plato's Republic and Yale at 325: 'Why Be Just?' joins the DeVane lectures

The fourth lecture of Purposes of College Education reads Plato beside Confucius, Mill, Woolf, Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

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Why Be Just? - Purposes of College Education, Lecture 4

A new lecture series is taking shape on YaleCourses, one class at a time. The fourth installment of Purposes of College Education, "Why Be Just?", went up on September 28 and was the channel's only new video. It drew close to 8,000 views on its first day.

The course is built around what its description calls the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato's Republic, and "Why Be Just?" is the question at the center of that dialogue. Socrates spends much of the book answering it. The course reads Plato alongside Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. It is also tied to an occasion: Yale's 325th anniversary. The description promises a look at how the college's idea of education has changed over the centuries, with some of its founding documents on the reading list. These are the DeVane lectures, which are open to the public.

The series is moving as a set. The opening lecture, "What is College For?", is the busiest video on the channel right now, and "Introduction to Plato" is close behind it. Newcomers may be starting at lecture one and working forward, the way a syllabus intends.

Overall, the channel is running a little below its usual daily views, at roughly 127,000 a day. Among similar education channels, the strong stretches belong to others: Technology for Teachers and Students, Answer in Progress and Invicta are all well above their usual pace.

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