Podcast #943: The Lesser-Identified Philosophy of the Iron Age Greeks

Once we consider Western philosophers who contemplated questions in regards to the good life, we usually consider the classical period of Greece and the likes of Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle. However my visitor would say that the poets and philosophers who got here out of the previous interval, Greece’s Iron Age, even have one thing to say in regards to the nature of existence.

Adam Nicolson is the creator of The right way to Be: Life Classes from the Early Greeks. At the moment on the present, Adam takes us on a tour of Iron Age Greece and the way these seafaring individuals set the stage for our trendy sense of self. Adam makes the case that the early Greeks had what he calls a “harbor mindset,” which lent them a mentality centered on fluidity and transience. We focus on how Odysseus exemplifies this harbor mindset, and the way a gaggle of lesser-known pre-Socratic philosophers outlined life by a lens of change and contradiction. Adam then explains how a mystical guru named Pythagoras paved the way in which for Greek thinkers like Plato and Aristotle and the rise of cooperative civility.

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