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Images, Unit 17 -- Ancient Greece 2
Classical Greek Philosophy -- Socrates and beyond

For Pre-Socratic Philosophy, see:     http://www.mmdtkw.org/GR-Unit8-PreSocraticsGames.html         Images, comments on images     http://www.mmdtkw.org/GR-Unit8-PreSocraticsGames--Readings.html        Readings with links

See http://www.mmdtkw.org/GR--Unit17-ClassicalGreekPhilosophy-Readings.html for readings on Ancient Greek Philosophy.

For a larger view of the Raphael's School of Athens, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_School_of_Athens#/media/File:Sanzio_01.jpg

How was Greek Philosophy transmitted to us?
Mostly through Islam.


But also, to some extent, through Christianity.


Augustine toyed with Neoplatonism before sinking into theism.


Pseudo-Dionysius and the Corpus Areopagiticum.


Proclus


Bessarion's Library





In Cosimo de Medici's Academy of Florence:
Marcilio Ficino put to work.


More recently, Albert Camus


Philosophy Timeline


For Pre-Socratic Philosophy, see
http://www.mmdtkw.org/GR-Unit8-PreSocraticsGames.html
Images, comments on images
http://www.mmdtkw.org/GR-Unit8-PreSocraticsGames--Readings.html
Readings with links

Socrates, the Gadfly






Plato writes about Socrates -- eventually identity theft




Modern pseudo-Socratic snake oil


Plato










"Republic" and "Laws"


Cave allegory

For an animated explanation of Plato's Cave allegory, see
http://www.mmdtkw.org/Gr1726PlatoCaveAnimated.mp4

Plato's Realism aka "idealism" (ideas have seperate reality)


Plato's Academy








Aristotle -- "first in class" at the Academy (after 20 years)


Aristotle tutors Alexander


Aristotle's Lyceum


Aristotles philosophy








Peripatetics




Much argued about Aristotle -- every philosophical explainer for him/her self.


Three stoics develop Stoicism sequentially; fully formed after Chrysippus








Epicurus on the opposite tack


Pyrrho, the Skeptic:  we are incapable of finding moral absolutes, but we should live by time honored traditions.


Etc., etc., etc., as the King of Siam once said, according to Anna Harriette Leonowens.  (Look her up -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Leonowens)


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