Practical philosophy the Greco-Roman moralists /
Emory University professor Luke Timothy Johnson delivers lectures discussing the philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as the philosophical theories they espoused.
| Main Author: | Johnson, Luke Timothy. |
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| Other Authors: | Teaching Company. |
| Format: | Cassette |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[2002]
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| Physical Description: |
12 audiocassettes (approximately 720 min.) : analog, Dolby processed + 2 course guidebooks (ii, 56 pages each ; 22 cm.) |
| Series: |
Great courses (Audiocassette)
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- lecture 1. The world of the Greco-Roman moralists
- lecture 2. How empire changed philosophy
- lecture 3. The great schools and their battles
- lecture 4. Dominant themes and metaphors
- lecture 5. The ideal philosopher, a composite portrait
- lecture 6. The charlatan, philosophy betrayed
- lecture 7. Philosophy satirized, the comic Lucian
- lecture 8. Cicero, the philosopher as politician
- lecture 9. Seneca, philosopher as court advisor
- lecture 10. Good Roman advice, Cicero and Seneca
- lecture 11. Musonius Rufus, the Roman Socrates
- lecture 12. Dio Chrysostom, the wandering rhetorician
- lecture 13. Dio Chrysostom, preaching peace and piety
- lecture 14. Epictetus, philosopher as school teacher
- lecture 15. Epictetus, the stoic path to virtue
- lecture 16. Epictetus, the messenger of Zeus
- lecture 17. Marcus Aurelius, meditations of the king
- lecture 18. Jews thinking like Greeks
- lecture 19. Philo, Judaism as Greek philosophy
- lecture 20. Plutarch, biography as moral instruction
- lecture 21. Plutarch and philosophical religion
- lecture 22. Plutarch on virtue and educating children
- lecture 23. Plutarch, envy, anger, and talking too much
- lecture 24. The missing page in philosophy's story.