Nietzsche’s Playlist (Nietzsche wrote more about music than any other subject; by his own admission, his friendship with, and then vehement opposition to, the opera composer Richard Wagner defined his career and epitomize his philosophy.)

Plato on Love, Death, and the Soul (The conceptual arc that runs through the dialogues Symposium, Phaedo, Republic, and Phaedrus identifies Plato’s invention of the field of psychology as the key to understanding his break with Socrates and the development of his own mature philosophy.)