Practical Philosophy: The Greco-Roman Moralists

Tracklist

• 1
  The World of the Greco-Roman Moralists
• 2
  How Empire Changed Philosophy
• 3
  The Great Schools and Their Battles
• 4
  Dominant Themes and Metaphors
• 5
  The Ideal Philosopher — a Composite Portrait
• 6
  The Charlatan — Philosophy Betrayed
• 7
  Philosophy Satirized — The Comic Lucian
• 8
  Cicero — The Philosopher as Politician
• 9
  Seneca — Philosopher as Court Advisor
• 10
  Good Roman Advice — Cicero and Seneca
• 11
  Musonius Rufus — The Roman Socrates
• 12
  Dio Chrysostom — The Wandering Rhetorician
• 13
  Dio Chrysostom — Preaching Peace and Piety
• 14
  Epictetus — Philosopher as School Teacher
• 15
  Epictetus — The Stotic Path to Virtue
• 16
  Epictetus — The Messenger of Zeus
• 17
  Marcus Aurelius — Meditations of the King
• 18
  Jews Thinking Like Greeks
• 19
  Philo — Judaism as Greek Philosophy
• 20
  Plutarch — Biography as Moral Instruction
• 21
  Plutarch and Philosophical Religion
• 22
  Plutarch on Virtue and Educating Children
• 23
  Plutarch — Envy, Anger, and Talking Too Much
• 24
  The Missing Page in Philosophy’s Story

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