

1. From the Upanishads to Homer

1. From the Upanishads to Homer
Before ancient Greek civilization, the world hosted deep insights into the human condition but offered little critical reflection. Homer planted the seeds of this reflection.
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2. Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It?

2. Philosophy—Did the Greeks Invent It?
Discover how and why the ancient Greeks were the first to objectify the products of their own thoughts and feelings and be willing to subject both to critical scrutiny.
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3. Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number

3. Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number
How can we comprehend the very integrity of the universe and our place within it, if not by way of the most abstract relations?
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4. What Is There?

4. What Is There?
How many kinds of stuff make up the cosmos? Might everything, in fact, be reducible to one kind of thing?
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5. The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate

5. The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate
The ancient philosophers were only part of the rich community of thought and wonder that surrounded the world's first great dramatists and their landmark depth psychologies.
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6. Herodotus and the Lamp of History

6. Herodotus and the Lamp of History
Can history actually teach us? Herodotus looked at what he took to be certain universal human aspirations and deficiencies and concluded that indeed history could.
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7. Socrates on the Examined Life

7. Socrates on the Examined Life
Rhetoric wins arguments, but it is philosophy that shows us the way to our humanity.
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8. Plato's Search For Truth

8. Plato's Search For Truth
If one knows what one is looking for, why is a search necessary? And if one doesn't know, how is that search even possible? Socrates versus the Sophists.
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9. Can Virtue Be Taught?

9. Can Virtue Be Taught?
If virtue can be taught, whose virtue will it be? A look at the Socratic recognition of multiculturalism and moral relativism.
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10. Plato's Republic—Man Writ Large

10. Plato's Republic—Man Writ Large
This most famous of Plato's dialogues begins with the metaphor—or perhaps the reality—of the polis (community) as the expanded version of the person, with the fate of each inextricably bound to that of the other.
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11. Hippocrates and the Science of Life

11. Hippocrates and the Science of Life
Hippocratic medicine did much to demystify the human condition and the natural factors that affect it.
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12. Aristotle on the Knowable

12. Aristotle on the Knowable
Smith knows that a particular triangle contains 180 degrees because he has measured it, while Jones knows it by definition. But do they know the same thing?
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13. Aristotle on Friendship

13. Aristotle on Friendship
If true friendship is possible only between equals, how equal must they be—and with respect to what?
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14. Aristotle on the Perfect Life

14. Aristotle on the Perfect Life
What sort of life is right for humankind, and what is it about us that makes this so?
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15. Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law

15. Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law
The Stoics found in language something that would separate humanity from the animate realm, and that gave Rome a philosophy to civilize the world.
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16. The Stoic Bridge to Christianity

16. The Stoic Bridge to Christianity
The Jewish Christians, Hellenized or Orthodox, defended a monotheistic source of law.
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17. Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide World

17. Roman Law—Making a City of the Once-Wide World
Roman development of law based on a conception of nature, and of human nature, is one of the signal achievements in the history of civilization.
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18. The Light Within—Augustine on Human Nature

18. The Light Within—Augustine on Human Nature
Thoughts and ideas from the fathers of the early Christian Church culminated in St. Augustine, who explores humanity's capacity for good and evil.
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19. Islam

19. Islam
What did the Prophet teach that so moved the masses? And how did the Western world come to understand the threat embodied in these Eastern "heresies"?
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20. Secular Knowledge—The Idea of University

20. Secular Knowledge—The Idea of University
Apart from trade schools devoted to medicine and law, the university as we know it did not come into being until 12th-century Paris.
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21. The Reappearance of Experimental Science

21. The Reappearance of Experimental Science
There were really two great renaissances. The first occurred at Oxford in the 13th century: the recovery of experimental inquiry by Roger Bacon and others.
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22. Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law

22. Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law
Thomas Aquinas's treatises on law would stand for centuries as the foundation of critical inquiry in jurisprudence.
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23. The Renaissance—Was There One?

23. The Renaissance—Was There One?
From Petrarch in the south to Erasmus in the north, Humanistic thought collided with those seeking to defend faith.
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24. Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them

24. Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them
Even in the time we honor with the title of Renaissance ran an undercurrent of a heady and ominous mixture of natural magic, natural science, and cruel superstition.
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