GRIFFITH: ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY - An Introduction

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Ancient Greek Philosophy - An Introduction (more info)
Composed by: Richard Phillips
Bruce Alexander, reader
Crawford Logan, reader
Oliver Ford Davies, reader


1. Narrator: Philosophy arises out of two fundamental questions: - 6:00
2. Diogenes: After engaging in politics he became a student of nature. - 6:16
3. From Book IX, on Heraclitus - 4:58
4. From Book II, on Anaxagoras - 3:22
5. From Book VIII, on Pythagoras - 4:59
6. From Book IX, on Democritus - 3:14
7. Narrator: In general, it is probably fair to say … - 3:24
8. Meno: There will be no difficulty, Socrates … - 7:41
9. Socrates: That would be your mode of speaking? - 6:11
10. Meno: Well then, Socrates, virtue, as I take it … - 4:44
11. So, the man proposes the death penalty - 5:12
12. I can imagine someone saying … - 5:03
13. I am now departing … - 4:39
14. Suppose it's a total absence … - 6:53

Ancient Greek Philosophy - An Introduction (more info)
Composed by: Richard Phillips
Bruce Alexander, reader
Crawford Logan, reader
Oliver Ford Davies, reader


1. Meno: And how will you enquire, Socrates … - 5:58
2. I now want to know whether you still … - 6:38
3. Narrator: There is an exact parallel here … - 5:31
4. So, in his desire to create … - 6:24
5. Narrator: Plato - 7:37
6. Is not thirst the desire which the soul has … - 8:01
7. Suppose that a man thinks he has done wrong - 6:49
8. Narrator: So in the ideal city or state … - 6:36
9. I dare say that you remember … - 6:36
10. Narrator: Ideally, then, philosophers should … - 7:04
11. Narrator: Not democracy, then … - 4:47

Ancient Greek Philosophy - An Introduction (more info)
Composed by: Richard Phillips
Bruce Alexander, reader
Crawford Logan, reader
Oliver Ford Davies, reader


1. Narrator: Before we say that no-one … - 7:50
2. The body is more like the other … - 6:48
3. Narrator: The final selection from Plato … - 6:45
4. By all means, he said, tell us … - 6:48
5. You would say, would you not … - 7:59
6. This entire allegory … - 4:26
7. Narrator: It may be that, for Anglo Saxon … - 7:00
8. Aristotle: All men by nature desire to know … - 5:31
9. We have said in the Ethics … - 6:23
10. The Nicimecion Ethics - 3:42
11. Aristotle: And now let us revert to the good … - 6:48
12. We must now enquire, concerning happiness … - 5:50

Ancient Greek Philosophy - An Introduction (more info)
Composed by: Richard Phillips
Bruce Alexander, reader
Crawford Logan, reader
Oliver Ford Davies, reader


1. Book II, 1 - 3 - 6:06
2. Thus it is therefore … - 5:54
3. Book VIII, 1 - 3 - 6:19
4. But must they not add that the feeling … - 6:31
5. Book X, 1 - 3 - 4:39
6. What is there then of such a nature? - 7:36
7. Book X, 6 -7 - 4:34
8. Now, if Happiness … - 5:45
9. Narrator: The Politics - 5:31
10. Now, if in this particular science … - 7:11
11. Book III, 6 -7 - 6:31

Ancient Greek Philosophy - An Introduction (more info)
Composed by: Richard Phillips
Bruce Alexander, reader
Crawford Logan, reader
Oliver Ford Davies, reader


1. Book III, 11 and 13 - 7:47
2. Now, in general, a citizen is one who … - 5:21
3. Book IV, 4 - 6:20
4. If, then, these things are necessary … - 5:55
5. Book IV, 11 - 13 - 6:19
6. Those who made conquests in Greece … - 5:50
7. Book VIII, 1- 3 - 3:48
8. There are four things … - 4:20
9. Narrator: The Stoics annd the Epicureans - 3:20
10. Diogenes: The ethical branch of philosophy … - 6:19
11. Virtue, in the first place … - 5:43
12. Of mental goods, some are habits … - 6:10
13. The term 'indifferent' has two meanings - 6:32

Ancient Greek Philosophy - An Introduction (more info)
Composed by: Richard Phillips
Bruce Alexander, reader
Crawford Logan, reader
Oliver Ford Davies, reader


1. According to the Stoics … - 5:46
2. Also they say there are three emotional … - 5:10
3. But Hericlaedes of Tarsus … - 6:21
4. Narrator: Stoicism became very influential … - 3:39
5. In the first place … - 7:05
6. The repetition at such length … - 5:48
7. Falsehood and error always depend … - 7:27
8. We must consider the minimum … - 5:39
9. Next, keeping in view our perceptions … - 3:59
10. There is the further point to be considered … - 6:01
11. There is yet one more point … - 8:00
12. And, when once we have attained all this … - 7:41
13. Narrator: So, is that it then? - 2:24

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