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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy contains lengthy essays on Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
David Roochnik’s Retrieving the Ancients is an accessible and well-regarded introduction to Greek philosophy.
If you’d rather have a “Philosophy for Dummies” take on things, try Thomas Cathcart’s Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes.
Mortimer Adler’s Aristotle for Everybody is a great introduction to the philosopher from one of the 20^th century’s most prominent champions of the classics.
“Economic Thought in Ancient Greece” by Jesus Huerta de Soto
Works of the pre-Socratic philosophers
Works of Plato
Works of Aristotle

Greek Philosophy I – Quiz

Identify two of the cosmologists discussed in the lecture.
In the area of ethics, Socrates believed that __________ would always lead to correct behavior.
Socrates believed that knowledge is remembered, not learned, and used what analogy to describe his teaching role?
The philosophers who first shifted their focus from the study of nature to the study of man were called __________.
The term “philosophy” literally means the ____________.
True/False: Socrates embraced the principle of philosophical relativism.
What was the primary goal of the cosmologists?

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