The Greek View of Life by Goldsworthy Lowes DICKINSON (1862 - 1932)
Genre(s): *Non-fiction, Art, Design & Architecture, Philosophy

Read by: Martin Geeson in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - 01 - Chapter I: The Greek View of Religion. Section 1 - Introductory
00:04:33 - 02 - 02 - I.2 Greek Religion an Interpretation of Nature
00:20:15 - 03 - 03 - I.3 Greek Religion an Interpretation of the Human Passions
00:24:26 - 04 - 04 - I.4 Greek Religion the Foundation of Society
00:32:59 - 05 - 05 - I.5 Religious Festivals
00:47:58 - 06 - 06 - I.6 The Greek Conception of the Relation of Man to the Gods
00:55:44 - 07 - 07 - I.7 Divination, Omens, Oracles
01:02:48 - 08 - 08 - I.8 Sacrifice and Atonement
01:10:40 - 09 - 09 - I.9 Guilt and Punishment
01:20:06 - 10 - 10 - I.10 Mysticism
01:33:07 - 11 - 11 - I.11 The Greek View of Death and a Future Life
01:52:45 - 12 - 12 - I.12 Critical and Sceptical Opinion in Greece
02:06:07 - 13 - 13 - I.13 Ethical Criticism
02:19:19 - 14 - 14 - I.14 Transition to Monotheism
02:28:04 - 15 - 15 - I.15 Metaphysical Criticism
02:43:08 - 16 - 16 - I.16 Metaphysical Reconstruction - Plato
02:52:58 - 17 - 17 - I.17 Summary
03:03:26 - 18 - 18 - Chapter II: The Greek View of the State. Section 1 - The Greek State a 'City'
03:07:52 - 19 - 19 - II.2 The Relation of the State to the Citizen
03:17:19 - 20 - 20 - II.3 The Greek View of Law
03:22:43 - 21 - 21 - II.4 Artisans and Slaves
03:38:51 - 22 - 22 - II.5 The Greek State Primarily Military, not Industrial
03:47:16 - 23 - 23 - II.6 Forms of Government in the Greek State
03:51:53 - 24 - 24 - II.7 Faction and Anarchy
04:05:45 - 25 - 25 - II.8 Property and the Communistic Ideal
04:28:25 - 26 - 26 - II.9 Sparta
04:49:53 - 27 - 27 - II.10 Athens
05:27:37 - 28 - 28 - II.11 Sceptical Criticism of the Basis of the State
05:42:18 - 29 - 29 - II.12 Summary
05:52:37 - 30 - 30 - Chapter III: The Greek View of the Individual. Section 1 - The Greek View of Manual Labour and Trade
05:57:55 - 31 - 31 - III.2 Appreciation of External Goods
06:04:13 - 32 - 32 - III.3 Appreciation of Physical Qualities
06:08:50 - 33 - 33 - III.4 Greek Athletics
06:17:06 - 34 - 34 - III.5 Greek Ethics - Identification of the Aesthetic and Ethical Points of View
06:38:57 - 35 - 35 - III.6 The Greek View of Pleasure
06:45:23 - 36 - 36 - III.7 Illustrations - Ischomachus; Socrates

'With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the truth of all existence.'This elegantly-written work provides a splendid introduction to the Greeks of the classic period: how they thought, wrote, and organised their lives and loves. Although it dates from the 1890s, there is very little about it that has dated. To its author's credit, the subject of 'Greek love' is dealt with in a sane and factual context - despite the judicial assassination of Oscar Wilde going on in the background.A Cambridge don much admired by his students (including E. M. Forster), Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson belonged to the Apostles, a secret society with a strong ethic of male friendship. Alfred Tennyson and his beloved Arthur Hallam were early members. Dickinson is chiefly remembered as a historian and pacifist who played a significant part in the founding of the League of Nations. Inevitably, given his interests and intellectual background, he became a close associate of the Bloomsbury Group. The Greek View of Life is no dry academic tome. It is a popularizing work in the best sense: accessibly written and illustrated with apt quotations given in sturdy translations, never in the original Greek. It is a joy to read. (Introduction by Martin Geeson)

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