Great Ancient Greek philosophers: Plato and Aristotle

Plato and Aristotle are the greatest of ancient Greek philosophers. This series of seminars is an introduction to some of the key elements in their thought.

It considers Plato on the soul and its immortality in the Phaedo and, in particular, on the perfectly just city-state in the Republic. (The latter includes above all a consideration of Plato on the Philosopher King and the Forms and the Form of the Good.)

It considers Aristotle on among other things language and logic in the Organon and on change and cause in the Physics and on “happiness” in the Nichomachean Ethics.

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"Dr Karim Esmail provided an insightful overview of the philosophers in an engaging and intelligent manner. I consider myself very fortunate to have attended his course."