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For more than two millennia, philosophers have grappled with life's most deep and "eternal" questions. It is easy to forget, however, that these questions about fundamental issues like justice, injustice, virtue, vice, or contentment were not always eternal. They once needed to be asked for the first time. This was a step which could place the inquirer beyond the boundaries of the law. As well as the Athenian citizen and philosopher who took that courageous step in the 5th hundred years B.C. was Socrates. In this intellectually radiant - yet crystal-clear and accessible - series of 36 lectures, an award-winning teacher provides you with a detailed evaluation of the fantastic get older of Athenian school of thought and the philosophical consequences of the philosopher's famed "Socratic Move": his veering from philosophy's previous concerns with the scientific study of dynamics and the physical world and toward the scrutiny of moral judgment. After Socrates, school of thought could not be the same. You learn that a lot of Socrates's school of thought is captured in the writings of his contemporaries and supporters, including not just Plato and Aristotle, but also shapes like Xenophon, a great thinker and military services commander, and the comic playwright Aristophanes. Professor Bartlett goes through Plato's most important dialogues - where Socrates is the protagonist - and shows the way they convey the central of Socrates's school of thought. He then progresses to Aristotle, who did more than anyone to establish a complete system of school of thought in the West, producing work encompassing morality, politics, looks, logic, science, rhetoric, theology, metaphysics, and more.
