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GRIFFITH: ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY - An Introduction (Bruce Alexander/ Crawford Logan/ Oliver Ford Davies) (Naxos Audio Books: NA644412)
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The philosophy of Ancient Greece provides the background of Western ethical thought and politics. In this approachable introduction, Tom Griffith, a leading translator of Plato, covers the main ground from the Pre-Socratics through Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and the Epicureans. In each case, the figures are introduced before a compilation of key texts in lively translations.
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Narrator: Philosophy arises out of two fundamental |
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Diogenes: After engaging in politics he became a s |
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From Book IX, on Heraclitus |
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From Book II, on Anaxagoras |
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From Book VIII, on Pythagoras |
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From Book IX, on Democritus |
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Narrator: In general, it is probably fair to say … |
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Meno: There will be no difficulty, Socrates … |
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Socrates: That would be your mode of speaking? |
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Meno: Well then, Socrates, virtue, as I take it … |
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So, the man proposes the death penalty |
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I can imagine someone saying … |
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I am now departing … |
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Suppose it's a total absence … |
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Meno: And how will you enquire, Socrates … |
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I now want to know whether you still … |
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Narrator: There is an exact parallel here … |
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So, in his desire to create … |
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Narrator: Plato |
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Is not thirst the desire which the soul has … |
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Suppose that a man thinks he has done wrong |
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Narrator: So in the ideal city or state … |
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I dare say that you remember … |
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Narrator: Ideally, then, philosophers should … |
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Narrator: Not democracy, then … |
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Narrator: Before we say that no-one … |
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The body is more like the other … |
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Narrator: The final selection from Plato … |
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By all means, he said, tell us … |
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You would say, would you not … |
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This entire allegory … |
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Narrator: It may be that, for Anglo Saxon … |
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Aristotle: All men by nature desire to know … |
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We have said in the Ethics … |
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The Nicimecion Ethics |
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Aristotle: And now let us revert to the good … |
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We must now enquire, concerning happiness … |
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Book II, 1 - 3 |
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Thus it is therefore … |
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Book VIII, 1 - 3 |
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But must they not add that the feeling … |
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Book X, 1 - 3 |
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What is there then of such a nature? |
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Book X, 6 -7 |
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Now, if Happiness … |
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Narrator: The Politics |
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Now, if in this particular science … |
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Book III, 6 -7 |
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Book III, 11 and 13 |
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Now, in general, a citizen is one who … |
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Book IV, 4 |
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If, then, these things are necessary … |
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Book IV, 11 - 13 |
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o made conquests in Greece … |
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Book VIII, 1- 3 |
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There are four things … |
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Narrator: The Stoics annd the Epicureans |
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Diogenes: The ethical branch of philosophy … |
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Virtue, in the first place … |
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Of mental goods, some are habits … |
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The term 'indifferent' has two meanings |
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According to the Stoics … |
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Also they say there are three emotional … |
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But Hericlaedes of Tarsus … |
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Narrator: Stoicism became very influential … |
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In the first place … |
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The repetition at such length … |
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Falsehood and error always depend … |
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We must consider the minimum … |
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Next, keeping in view our perceptions … |
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There is the further point to be considered … |
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There is yet one more point … |
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And, when once we have attained all this … |
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Narrator: So, is that it then? |
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