John Cooper: Platonist Philosophy as a Way of Life: Plotinus

John Cooper, an author and professor of philosophy at Princeton, presented two lectures, Ancient Philosophies as a Way of Life: Socrates and Platonist Philosophy as a Way of Life: Plotinus and participated in follow-up discussion seminar with students and scholars the next day. See his other lecture here: http://youtu.be/8JFxZgxD-is

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