Reason, spirit and appetite enter YaleCourses' college-education conversation

Two new DeVane lectures connect Plato's account of the soul with questions of community and injustice.

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The Tripartite Soul - Purposes of College Education, Lecture 8

YaleCourses moved its Purposes of College Education series from a question about the individual to one about living together. "The Tripartite Soul - Purposes of College Education, Lecture 8" arrived first, followed by "Community and Injustice - Purposes of College Education, Lecture 9."

Plato's three-part account distinguishes reason, spirit and appetite: the part that thinks, the part concerned with pride and honor, and the part that wants things. It gives a course about education something more complicated to work with than simply filling a mind with knowledge. The series also considers character, citizenship and participation in a community, reading The Republic alongside thinkers including Confucius, Virginia Woolf and Martin Luther King.

The soul lecture was the week's most-watched new upload, reaching about 13,000 views. The community lecture is currently attracting more daily views, though the series opener, "What is College For? - Purposes of College Education, Lecture 1," has the strongest daily momentum of the three.

The channel added 10,000 subscribers over the week, even as daily viewing ran below its usual level. Among nearby university channels, University of Oxford is experiencing a pronounced daily lift, while Arizona State University had a larger weekly view gain than YaleCourses.

Beyond the new course, YaleCourses' most-watched regular upload remains a very different classroom destination: the 2009 Dante lecture "21. Paradise XXIV, XXV, XXVI," now approaching ten million views.

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Community and Injustice - Purposes of College Education, Lecture 910,215 views · 2026-10-14 What is College For? - Purposes of College Education, Lecture 1133,676 views

The numbers

Here is how YaleCourses' week looks in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Arizona State University

849,588

YaleCourses

755,599

University of Oxford

678,345

Missouri Welding Institute

466,555

English Heritage

184,311

Oxford Mathematics

166,387

Mondly by Pearson

162,190

Oxford Academic (Oxford U…

44,135

subscribers

1,860,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

209,020,436

views per day

102,351

typical day: 125,219

first-day views of each video posted this week

The Tripartite Soul - Purposes of Colle…

7,892

Community and Injustice - Purposes of C…

6,614

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

YaleCourses

1,860,000

English Heritage

1,390,000

Oxford Mathematics

746,000

Mondly by Pearson

548,000

University of Oxford

514,000

Missouri Welding Institute

270,000

Arizona State University

218,000

Oxford Academic (Oxford U…

174,000

As of October 19, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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