An Introduction to Greek Philosophy - David Roochnik

Written by David Roochnik
Read by David Roochnik
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The first philosophers in Western history—the ancient Greeks—asked the most fundamental questions about human beings and their relationship to the world. More than 2,500 years later, the issues they pondered continue to challenge, fascinate, and instruct us. Is reality stable and permanent or is it always changing? Are ethical values like justice and courage relative? Or are values “absolute”—simply and forever right and true? What is justice? What is happiness? How shall we best live our lives?

Lectures:
01 - A Dialectical Approach to Greek Philosophy
02 - From Myth to Philosophy: Hesiod and Thales
03 - The Milesians and the Quest for Being
04 - The Great Intrusion: Heraclitus
05 - Parmenides: The Champion of Being
06 - Reconciling Heraclitus and Parmenides
07 - The Sophists: Protagoras, the First “Humanist”
08 - Socrates
09 - An Introduction to Plato’s Dialogues
10 - Plato versus the Sophists, I
11 - Plato versus the Sophists, II
12 - Plato’s Forms, I
13 - Plato’s Forms, II
14 - Plato versus the Presocratics
15 - The Republic: The Political Implications of the Forms
16 - Final Reflections on Plato
17 - Aristotle: “The” Philosopher
18 - Aristotle’s Physics: What Is Nature?
19 - Aristotle’s Physics: The Four Causes
20 - Why Plants Have Souls
21 - Aristotle’s Hierarchical Cosmos
22 - Aristotle’s Teleological Politics
23 - Aristotle’s Teleological Ethics
24 - The Philosophical Life

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