The 13 Schools of Ancient Greek Philosophy

An overview of the 13 major schools of ancient Greek philosophy, including pre-Socratic schools, Socratic schools and Hellenistic schools such as the Eleatics, the Cynics, the Megarians, the Stoics, the Epicureans, and more!

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Information for this video gathered from The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Collier-MacMillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, and more!

[nowyatsilentdust]

I listened to this three times, because it was so awesome. Thank you.

[CepuminsLV]

You should really invest like 10 mins into learning about audio compression and use it for your recordings :) currently listening on 2x speed (as i normally do) there are very loud annoying volume peaks from your intonation and at times some words are not audible. Very informative videos and i will keep watching!

[incollectio]

Great intro. Two small nuances:
(1) It seems to be currently disputed that Thales could have predicted the eclipse with the means we are aware to have been available to him. Insofar as we can discern, it was only the Babylonians who were the first to be able to predict eclipses, circa three centuries later. The earliest account of Thales's prediction comes from Herodotus, a century after the alleged fact, and is considered suspect.

(2) Democritus was Leucippus's student, not the other way around.

[jaredl]

love the videos but could do with a mic upgrade

[Pfhorrest]

I have heard of Presocratic philosophy being divided into the Ionians and the Italiotes, apparently by Diogenes. How does that division interact with your division of Presocratic philosophy here? I would guess that the Pythagoreans and Eleatics were Italiotes, while the Mileseans and Atomists were Ionians? I tried looking up more information on that division myself but found conflicting sources calling some or all of them Ionian, including Socrates and post-Socratic schools within those categories, etc.

[jacksaetveit]

I find myself drifting closer and closer towards Pyrrhonism, but keep finding the reasoning to be somewhat convoluted. If we're to suspend judgement and belief on all things because skepticism is a preferable reasoning attitude, does that not also imply that we should suspend belief as to the superior reasoning nature of skepticism? What I'm interested in is how I can get to the position that doubt is desirable when I must doubt even that. If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them, but as of now, I'm skeptical of pyrrhonist claims on skepticism. :)

[annakajade]

Just a hint of Reading and learning pronounceation, before recording... and I'll work on spelling cuz, I think I need some work 🤔,

[InventiveHarvest]

You forgot the ancient greek school of postmodernians

[trailtrs]

Good overview; but it would be good to learn to pronounce the names

[PremSingh-evmo]

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