Greek Philosophy Before Socrates

i listen to so many of the Centre Place talks i recognize the voices, and it was so cool to finally see the crowd, thanks tony

I mean, How the heavens are you guys able to produce this much content in incredible depth every week?! Thank you John

Great lecture! You laid that out very clearly. Enjoyed it.

I felt so sorry for John, who clearly had a cough or something in his throat, after he got barraged with so many questions (and non-questions). Way to pull off a great lecture, JH!

This man better be the head of The Classics Department in a major University.

Well THAT put a lot into perspective, didn't it? Well done! The thing that strikes me is how, as humans in search for our understanding of the why and how behind the big picture, we're still looking for that one underlying "Principle": The key to EVERYTHING. We make premises. Connect mental dots. Test it out. Throw it out. Bring some back. Connect more dots. Test it out. Throw it out. And so we go along in our spiral of evolution. From the earlier premise of water being the underlying Principle to everything, today we're at quantum mechanics. That's really something, isn't it? If I had one wish for humankind it would be this: I wish we didn't have the tendency to be so doggone dogmatic at every step of our way. Oh, how that holds us back. Hopefully, we'll grow out of that, too. :-)

I was privileged to encounter philosophy rather late in my life while previously I was living life with a mishmash of understanding that more times than not was contradictory but not entirely without value and thanks to philosophy and my imperfect understanding of it that philosophy has helped place so much of my life into a perspective. Having said that philosophy remains a constant in my life though I wander at times it’s reassuring to know that philosophy awaits my further exploration and implementation into my life.

Wow, what an absolutely fantastic lecture! Please keep producing this content. It is hard to find such detailed and clear lecture on presocratic philosophers, this was such a joy to watch!

I'm really loving this presenter! There's a heap of great introductory items clearly presented!

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH JOHN, this gave me so much clarity

This channel, and of course it’s corresponding institution, has made me decide that I am definitely visiting Toronto soon. I would love to catch one of these lectures.

Thank you for sharing this lecture!

I love this channel!

I hope there can be a lecture on Hermeticism.

Philosophy, she has been my mistress every since the age of 35, I do love the pre-socractics for they contemplated natural phenomena and what it was to live a good life. But all of it is worth reading, looking at and ruminating over indeed.

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We have started our 2.600 years lasting Hegemony of Philosophy by New Year 2024. 🍀🍀🍀🕊🕊🕊🌍🌍🌍⛲️⛲️⛲️. First known philosopher Thales of Miletus was born in 624 before Our chronology, acc. to Brittanica. 🍀🗽❤️. One of the Seven Sages.

The boundaries of Europe from East DON River to Lands End in West. Time 13:30 min of this Podcast. 🗽🗽

thank you