Fourth and final lecture in the 2011 John Locke lecture series. Philosophy is a demanding intellectual discipline, with many facets: logic, epistemology, philosophy of nature and science, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of art, rhetoric, philosophy of language and mind. But a long tradition of ancient Greek philosophers, beginning with Socrates, made their philosophies also complete ways of life. For them reason, perfected by philosophy-not religion, not cultural traditions and practices-constitutes the only legitimate authority for determining how one ought to live. They also thought philosophically informed reason should be the basis for all our practical attitudes, all our decisions, and in fact the whole of our lives. In these lectures we examine the development of this pagan tradition in philosophy, from its establishment by Socrates, through Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicurus, the Pyrrhonian Skeptics, and Plotinus and late ancient Platonism.

2011 Lecture 4: Platonism as a Way of Life 

Third lecture in the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series. Philosophy is a demanding intellectual discipline, with many facets: logic, epistemology, philosophy of nature and science, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of art, rhetoric, philosophy of language and mind. But a long tradition of ancient Greek philosophers, beginning with Socrates, made their philosophies also complete ways of life. For them reason, perfected by philosophy-not religion, not cultural traditions and practices-constitutes the only legitimate authority for determining how one ought to live. They also thought philosophically informed reason should be the basis for all our practical attitudes, all our decisions, and in fact the whole of our lives. In these lectures we examine the development of this pagan tradition in philosophy, from its establishment by Socrates, through Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicurus, the Pyrrhonian Skeptics, and Plotinus and late ancient Platonism.

2011 Lecture 3: The Stoic Way of Life 

Second lecture in the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series. Philosophy is a demanding intellectual discipline, with many facets: logic, epistemology, philosophy of nature and science, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of art, rhetoric, philosophy of language and mind. But a long tradition of ancient Greek philosophers, beginning with Socrates, made their philosophies also complete ways of life. For them reason, perfected by philosophy-not religion, not cultural traditions and practices-constitutes the only legitimate authority for determining how one ought to live. They also thought philosophically informed reason should be the basis for all our practical attitudes, all our decisions, and in fact the whole of our lives. In these lectures we examine the development of this pagan tradition in philosophy, from its establishment by Socrates, through Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicurus, the Pyrrhonian Skeptics, and Plotinus and late ancient Platonism.

2011 Lecture 2: Aristotle's Philosophy as Two Ways of Life 

Part of the 2011 John Locke Lecture Series; this year presented by Professor John Cooper, Princeton University, on 'Ancient Greek Philosophies as a Way of Life'. Philosophy is a demanding intellectual discipline, with many facets: logic, epistemology, philosophy of nature and science, metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of art, rhetoric, philosophy of language and mind. But a long tradition of ancient Greek philosophers, beginning with Socrates, made their philosophies also complete ways of life. For them reason, perfected by philosophy-not religion, not cultural traditions and practices-constitutes the only legitimate authority for determining how one ought to live. They also thought philosophically informed reason should be the basis for all our practical attitudes, all our decisions, and in fact the whole of our lives. In these lectures we examine the development of this pagan tradition in philosophy, from its establishment by Socrates, through Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicurus, the Pyrrhonian Skeptics, and Plotinus and late ancient Platonism.

2011 Lecture 1: Philosophy in Antiquity as a Way of Life 

Fifth and final lecture in the 2009 John Locke lectures entitled Being Realistic about Reasons.

2009 Lecture 5: Normative Structures 

Fourth lecture in the 2009 John Locke Lecture series entitled Being Realistic about Reasons.

2009 Lecture 4: Epistemological Problems 

Third lecture in the 2009 John Locke lecture series entitled Being Realistic about Reasons.

2009 Lecture 3: Motivation and the Appeal of Expressivism 

Second lecture in the 2009 John Locke lectures entitled Being Realistic about Reasons.

2009 Lecture 2: Normativity and Metaphysics 

First lecture of the 2009 John Locke Lectures entitled 'Being Realistic about Reasons.

2009 Lecture 1: Being Realistic about Reasons Introduction 

Sixth and final lecture in the John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World.

2010 Lecture 6: Whither the Aufbau? 

The John Locke Lectures are among the world's most distinguished lecture series in philosophy. The series began in 1950 and are given once a year.

Fifth lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World.

2010 Lecture 5: Hard Cases: Mathematics, Normativity, Ontology, Intentionality 

Fourth lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World.

2010 Lecture 4: Revisability and Conceptual Change: Carnap vs. Quine 

Third lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled Constructing the World.

2010 Lecture 3: The Case for A Priori Scrutability 

Second lecture in the 2010 John Locke lecture series entitled 'Constructing the World'.

2010 Lecture 2: The Cosmoscope Argument 

First Lecture in the 2010 John Locke Lecture series entitled Constructing the World.

2010 Lecture 1: A Scrutable World 

This is the sixth lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.

2008 Lecture 6: The Revisability Puzzle Revisited. 

This is the fifth lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.

2008 Lecture 5: Epistemology without Metaphysics 

This is the fourth lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.

2008 Lecture 4: Is that Really Revising Logic? 

This is the third lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.

2008 Lecture 3: A Case for the Rational Revisability of Logic. 

This is the second lecture in the 2008 John Locke Lecture series entitled 'Logic, Normativity, and Rational Revisability'.

2008 Lecture 2: What is the Normative Role of Logic? 

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