Greek Philosophy

Where the Western tradition starts arguing. The Presocratics, Socrates in the marketplace and on trial, Plato's forms and the cave, Aristotle on almost everything, the Stoics and Epicureans.

Part of Philosophy

33 moments in this segment.

1. -600 - Presocratic Philosophy - Ionian (Philosophize This!). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
2. -550 - The Presocratics (Crash Course). The first philosophers ask what the world is made of.
3. -550 - Presocratic Philosophy - Italian (Philosophize This!). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
4. -530 - Pythagoras: when mathematics became philosophy. A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
5. -500 - Heraclitus (c. 535–475 BC). "No man steps in the same river twice." The Presocratic of flux and the logos.
6. -500 - Heraclitus & Parmenides - being vs becoming. A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
7. -430 - Socrates and the Sophists (Philosophize This!). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
8. -430 - Socrates (470–399 BC). The gadfly of Athens who claimed to know only that he knew nothing, and was executed for it.
9. -430 - The Socratic Method. A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
10. -380 - Plato (Philosophize This!). A deep dive into Plato's Forms and the Republic.
11. -380 - Plato's Theory of Forms - David Sedley (Royal Institute of Philosophy). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
12. -380 - Plato's Allegory of the Cave (TED-Ed). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
13. -380 - Plato on the Forms (The School of Life). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
14. -380 - Plato (428–348 BC). Socrates' student: the Forms, the Republic, the Academy, the fountainhead of Western philosophy.
15. -375 - Is justice for the strong? - Plato's Republic. A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
16. -375 - Plato's Republic: justice, power & knowledge (Michael Sugrue). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
17. -350 - Plato & Aristotle (Raphael's "School of Athens"). Plato points up to the Forms, Aristotle down to the world, the two poles of all that follows.
18. -350 - What is a good life? (Crash Course). The ancient question that started it all.
19. -350 - Diogenes the Cynic (c. 412–323 BC). The philosopher in a barrel, searching by daylight with a lamp for an honest man.
20. -340 - Aristotle (384–322 BC). Logic, biology, ethics, politics, metaphysics, the systematizer who mapped almost every field.
21. -340 - Aristotle & Virtue Theory (Crash Course). How to be good, the Aristotelian way.
22. -340 - Aristotle (The School of Life). Aristotle on virtue, the golden mean and flourishing.
23. -340 - Aristotle, Part 1 (Philosophize This!). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
24. -330 - Aristotle's guide to the good life (Nicomachean Ethics). Eudaimonia and the life well lived.
25. -330 - Aristotle's virtue ethics, eudaimonia & the golden mean. A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
26. -300 - The Hellenistic Age: Epicurus (Philosophize This!). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
27. -300 - The philosophy of Stoicism (TED-Ed). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
28. -300 - Epicurus (341–270 BC). Pleasure rightly understood: the absence of pain and fear, friendship and a quiet garden.
29. -300 - The case against the Stoics (Philosophize This!). A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
30. -300 - Zeno of Citium - the founder of Stoicism. A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.
31. 0170 - Marcus Aurelius (121–180). The emperor-philosopher whose private "Meditations" became the great handbook of Stoicism.
32. 0170 - Stoic rules for a better life (Marcus Aurelius). The Stoicism of the emperor-philosopher.
33. 0250 - Plotinus, Neoplatonism & the Great Chain of Being. A deeper look, part of the history of philosophy.