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A few questions.
Do you know yourself, and what would it mean to do so? What does it mean to ‘examine your life’? Does life have a purpose? Do we do things for reasons? What is desire? Why do we want what we want? Are you good? What would it mean, to be a good person? Can you be good if you just set your mind to it? What does it mean to be a true friend? What is the relevance of philosophy? Doesn’t the Apostle Paul talk about being ruined by philosophy?
These are some of the one-hundred-or-so questions, raised by ancient thinkers that we will study in this course. We will look at some of the most enduring answers given to these questions by the greatest thinkers in the Western tradition up to the Apostolic period.
And this will draw us into consideration of many central issues in philosophy: truth, justice, love, the soul, reason, politics, etc.
But why not put this in the way the ancient world put it – do people need ‘philosophical resources for the living of their lives’? No; they simply need to know the truth – to know what can be known about the most basic questions of life.
What is the truth about these things, as they saw it? The knowledge we study is knowledge of life – practical knowledge, as relevant to daily life as knowledge of the seasons is to farming.
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Section 1 | Is this a course for you?
Why ancient Greek philosophy?
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The problem of being ‘modern’
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Section 2 | Ethics in Homeric Greece
§ 2 Lesson 3 | Fundamental concepts of ancient Greek thought, 2
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§ 2 Lesson 4 | Homeric Ethics: the ethics inherited by Socrates
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Section 3 | Plato’s ‘Euthyphro’
§ 3 Lesson 1 | Encounter at the court: the origin of enquiry
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§ 3 Lesson 2 | The basis of moral judgements
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§ 3 Lesson 3 | Test of the true
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§ 3 Lesson 4 | The challenge of the Euthyphro | coming
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Section 4 | Plato’s ‘Apology’
§ 4 Lesson 2 | Defining features of Wisdom, 1
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§ 4 Lesson 3 | Defining features of Wisdom, 2
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§ 4 Lesson 4 | Evil & the examined life
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Section 5 | Plato’s ‘Phaedo’, ‘Republic’, & ‘Phaedrus’
§ 5 Lesson 1 | Plato the theorist: the ‘Phaedo’
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§ 5 Lesson 3 | The soul: Plato’s ‘Phaedrus’
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Section 6 | Plato’s ‘Symposium’ | coming
§ 5 Lesson 1 | The spirit of love
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§ 5 Lesson 2 | The purification of love
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§ 6 Lesson 3 | ‘Beauty absolute’
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Section 7 | Aristotle on causes & ends | ‘Nicomachean Ethics’ 1
§ 7 Lesson 1 | Introduction
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§ 7 Lesson 2 | Causes & purpose (Posterior Analytics, Physics, & Metaphysics)
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§ 7 Lesson 3 | ‘Good’ & the ends of actions (Nicomachean Ethics, book 1)
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§ 7 Lesson 4 | The ultimate good, the final end of actions (Nicomachean Ethics, book 1)
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Section 8 | Aristotle on the purpose of life | ‘Nicomachean Ethics’ 2
§ 8 Lesson 1 | Eudaimonia or ‘happiness’
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§ 8 Lesson 2 | The final end sought & identified
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§ 8 Lesson 3 | The work of the soul
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§ 8 Lesson 4 | ‘Be what you are!’
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Section 9 | Aristotle on virtue | ‘Nicomachean Ethics’ 3
§ 9 Lesson 1 | Excellence
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§ 9 Lesson 2 | Formation, habit, or training
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§ 9 Lesson 3 | The art of life
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§ 9 Lesson 4 | Virtue & the mean of acts
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§ 9 Lesson 5 | The opposite of one vice is another
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§ 9 Lesson 6 | Virtue as a response & a power
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Section 10 | Aristotle on the morality of everyday life | ‘Nicomachean Ethics’ 4
§ 10 Lesson 1 | Signs of character: power over the passions
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§ 10 Lesson 2 | The good person
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§ 10 Lesson 3 | Knowing the good
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§ 10 Lesson 4 | The steps of deliberation or moral assessment, 1
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§ 10 Lesson 5 | The steps of deliberation, 2
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§ 10 Lesson 6 | ‘The good for man’ defined
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Section 11 | Aristotle on friendship | ‘Nicomachean Ethics’ 5
§ 11 Lesson 1 | Friendship, excellence, & beauty
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§ 11 Lesson 2 | The kinds of friendship
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§ 11 Lesson 3 | True friendship
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§ 11 Lesson 4 | Deceptive friendships
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§ 11 Lesson 5 | The social relevance of friendship
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§ 11 Lesson 6 | Criticisms of Aristotle’s ethics | to come
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Section 12 | Stoicism
§ 12 Lesson 3 | Misery & impiety, ctd.
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§ 12 Lesson 4 | Indifference & dispassion
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