Intro to Plato's dialogue Gorgias

This video is an introduction to Plato's dialogue Gorgias for students in my POT 4936 class Democracy and Propaganda. The assignment for Monday October 14th (post hurricane Milton) is to read pages 25-44 of the James Nichols translation and watch this video. I will post updates about when we might be able to meet again in person on campus as soon as I have that information. In the meantime be reading Plato and I will post some video tutorials for you in lieu of classroom lectures.
00:00 Post-hurricane Milton update --also I misspoke here: it's two and a half millennia, not two and a half centuries since the text was written
06:38 Who are the main characters in the dialogue?
12:58 What is an art? Why does Socrates want to know who Gorgias is?
13:50 What is the nature of ....?
18:53 The Socratic Method: Dialectics