This is a very good course, especially in how it summarizes important concepts in philosophy. Although the lecturer is very knowledgeable, the delivery of the lectures is not as smooth and engaging as it could be. It’s as if he’s reading the information rather than painting a big picture while offering a skillful perspective that I would expect from an Oxford professor.

I will be a student at Oxford University this coming term and taking Aesthetics as my primary tutorial. I have never formally studied Aesthetics before, so this series of lectures was a good introduction into this multifaceted topic.

I really can’t believe how astonishingly bad these lectures are. He reads Plato like an instruction manual, taking for granted Socrates’ complaints (which he outright conflates with Plato’s) against drama, poetry, etc., without once stopping to consider WHY Plato would choose to write all of this as a dramatic dialogue. Superficial, dogmatic, misinformative. You’d be better off just reading the Wikipedia article than getting an intro to aesthetics here.

This is an amazing collection. Although I am not a philosophy major, the ability of Professor Grant to make this subject relevant is truly a gift .