Ancient Greek philosophy
196Greek Life
17 Jun 2024
40:55¶ 142
“Aristotle will use the words form and matter to try to show that he’s well aware that there are these two principles and that…”
41:30¶ 143
“That becomes the job of the post-Socratics. When Socrates is gone, Plato and Aristotle have to struggle with this. Then the Hellenic philosophers have…”
41:44¶ 144
“What modern philosophy and historians have got wrong is they didn’t jettison religion to do it. They continued to cling to very religious basic…”
195From Marathon and On
3 Jun 2024
25:25¶ 80
“I would add one more thing about Greece. In some ways it’s not so much important in its own time or even at the…”
26:13¶ 82
“Yes, and it’s typically a false version of what Greece really was, that then has been interwoven and integrated into various parts. We take…”
26:31¶ 83
“But those things are very deeply embedded in our culture and everything in western civilization.”
181I Believe in Dragons
19 Feb 2024
28:07¶ 101
“The secularists don’t get it, either. “The Greek philosophers became purely naturalistic, no longer confined to religious interpretations.” They are thoroughly religious, and if…”
27:44¶ 100
“They’ve told us what they believe. We have enough of their writings to understand what they believe and what they were committed to, from…”
30:04¶ 108
“Speaking of books to read, here’s another one, C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces, where he portrays very clearly what the old pagan religions…”
150Doing the Right Thing
26 Dec 2022
5:32¶ 21
“Ben Franklin probably was writing a bit tongue-in-cheek, knowing him. Exactly how much he actually cared about morality in his later years is a…”
6:06¶ 22
“Interestingly enough, there were things that it didn’t really seem to affect, like their sexual lives or their habit of owning slaves and a…”