History of Ethics - Greek Poets & Presocratics

How does morality fit into the larger picture of reality? What is the relationship between fact and value? In this video series we explore the history of the relationship between fact and value in Western philosophy. How did Western civilization’s most influential thinkers conceptualize how morality fit into the cosmos at large? Let's traverse this terrain together.

In this beginning episode, we journey through the Greek poets (Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, & Sophocles), Presocratic philosophers (Xenophanes, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Democritus, & Protagoras), and the Sophists in search of an answer to these big questions.

📚 Featured Books (Helps Support 💗)
▹ "Fact, Value, and God" by Arthur F. Holmes
▹ "A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1" by Frederick Copleston
▹ "The First Philosophers" by Robin Waterfield
▹ "A Presocratics Reader" by Patricia Curd

🎼 Featured Song
▹ "Void" by GlobulDub

The Presocratics were 6th and 5th century BCE Greek thinkers who introduced a new way of inquiring into the world and the place of human beings in it. They were recognized in antiquity as the first philosophers and scientists of the Western tradition.

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00:00 Intro
00:51 Approaching the Presocratics
02:06 The World of the Greek Poets
05:33 Xenophanes's Objections
06:12 Anaximander's Balancing Boundless
07:29 Heraclitus's Cosmic Logos
10:03 Anaxagoras's Divine Mind
10:55 Democritus' Atomism
13:27 The Sophists' Relativism
14:34 Summary & Sequel
15:16 Outro

[CMBradley]

Of all the massive oversimplifications and misrepresentations of these poets and philosophers (sophists included) in this video, which one of these figures do you resonate with the most, and why?

[urokoz]

I really hope you are proud for what you did at 6:05 because that was pure gold.

[galoobigboi]

I am a simple man...C.M posts...I click.

[ethanrumley]

Wow.
This even makes the bible look better.
It's all lingo and metaphor.
Not the superstition it was made into.