Description
Produced by The Paideia Group, the University of North Carolina, and Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The purpose of these programs is to teach anyone how to conduct Socratic
seminars. In these programs, Dr. Adler conducts seminars with 20 high
school students on the readings below. After each discussion there is a question
and answer session between Dr. Adler the student’s teachers.
Five DVDs plus an 187 page Teacher’s Program Guide (pdf)
1) THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE – (60 min.)
2) APOLOGY – Plato – (60 min.)
3) ANTIGONE – Sophocles – (60 min.)
4) THE PRINCE – Machiavelli – (90 min.)
5) Aristotle’s POLITICS & Rousseau’s THE SOCIAL CONTRACT- (60 min.)
