She tackles huge questions and she brings in wisdom from everywhere. Ancient Greece , early Islam, enlightenment philosophy, bloggers.But for this episode, I wanted to focus on a particularly fascinating question about having kids.
And it goes all the way back to the sources of natural philosophy in the ancient world. Ancient China and ancient Greece both articulated in different ways a principle of locality. And I mean, you think about it, what does science do?
OK. So this whole fact that Arabic plays a crucial role in the transmission of knowledge, both science and philosophy, from the ancient worlds of ancient Greece and then the Roman Empire into the Islamic world, that's certainly true. And so an advantage of calling this field Arabic philosophy is precisely that.
And we will come to talk much more about the fact-- can we call it a fact-- that it is May 6, 2015 in just a minute as we talk about time and culture in ancient Greece and Rome. And just a little bit about me because this stuff becomes relevant as I talk about what I'm going to talk about.
She never trusted the light because she knew the story of . So in ancient Greece and Rome, anxiety was considered a case of bad reasoning.
to something that isn't life, a timeline or a yardstick. You get it in ancient Greece and Rome, like you get all sorts of things, but that's a new thing for almost everybody in the world to be thinking as a way of governing their lives.
Just to look at hospital food is to know that current Western medicine is not thinking at all that food is medicine and medicine is food, something that, you know, they figured out in ancient Greece . So, you know, I mean, civilizations forget things.
So I have a dream. in the ancient Greece .
You're going to let me stand here for-- There you are. It was the ancient history chapters because I tend to draw analogies all the time between ancient Greece and Rome and now.
1974 whatever and then find a scene which matches up and go aha it was a copy or you can find every idea from the Renaissance back to ancient Greece and ancient Greece can't invented everything so I I guess I'm just no they did that's my thesis there is a different to me there's a distinction between you know similarities and and similar things
So they needed reinforcements. And if you know anything about ancient Greece or if you've seen the movie 300, who's the most bad ass fighting force in ancient Greece ? The Spartans-- you know, this is Sparta.
How many of you are familiar with the movement that she started? They knew that back in ancient Greece , right?
These were kind of like survival tips. This is how you survive in ancient Greece . And the whole idea of those Greek myths is to tell people that you can actually do a lot more than you think you can
Where are most people's gods? They're in the sky. Yeah. Uh even in ancient Greece , they're Mount Olympus. Not in the sky, but they're in high places. You look at posters with religious sayings on them.
customer for example of looking into a new service or a new technology in order for persuasion to occur you need to have these three things you need to have ethos which in ancient Greece was character and credibility which is why all companies today including Google are
So if you think that only happens in ancient Greece , you need to brush up on your recent Liberian history.
Of course, in ancient Greece and Rome these games continued.
fact, from ancient Greece , from the proper time period and place as it would have been if this were an authentic statue. So the Getty forked over the ten million dollars and then
In India and China, in ancient Sumer, in ancient Greece and Egypt, in the Serengeti, and in the Amazon, and in the Celtic wilds, there flows a timeless tradition
I'm going to give you this little history which starts in ancient Greece as so much of western history of course
healing and medicine he was the most popular god actually probably in ancient Greece the huge sanctuaries for him he
But if we think about the fact that silk has been used for surgical sutures in ancient India and ancient Greece , they knew it had properties.
Why is the legend not the Spartathlon-- this 153 mile round trip? Well, if you look back into history, in ancient Greece , there was nothing more noble than dying in the cause of your countrymen and serving your country-- fulfilling your mission. And that last stretch from Marathon to the Acropolis, someone died.
The word derives from the god Pan, who haunted the pastors and wild places of ancient Greece .
Around 150 BC, Hero of Alexandria described how the temples of Ancient Greece were filled with magic.
But it's actually a very simple model. It's Ancient Greece territory in terms of like, "Yeah, this sounds good." But it doesn't actually really describe what's going on in the kitchen
someone who comes up to him is that a book under your cloak and you remember that books are rolls in ancient Greece
So who are these Pythagoreans and how do they break the RSA algorithm? And what does ancient Greece tell us about our own evolving digital world and authenticity?
really know what is extent of his at all uh and these writings of his were all cataloged in ancient Greece in the 3rd
it's um really it goes back to the infancy of mankind I mean we find it in ancient Greece and ancient
He couldn’t flip open TikTok and Instagram -- there weren't algorithms that were fracking his attention, and ancient Greece was not beset by fentanyl and oxycodone.
is a lack of proper debates, the lack of proper discussions. In ancient Greece , 2 and a half thousand years ago, Plato attacked what's called the sophists, who were these paid
Let's keep going. You could look at classics, meaning ancient Greece .
Because, you see, the theory of anatomy that was prevailing then was done by Galen, you know, in ancient Greece .
I'm gonna talk to you instead about a collision of worlds between ideas in modern cryptology and the vision of a philosopher in ancient Greece .
and copper leaves scattered on the forest floor, the broken stone walls and raw timber of old buildings evoked, if they did not resemble, the altars and groves of ancient Greece or
planet and what was. By the way, planet hadn't been unambiguously defined since ancient Greece . That's why there was all