History of Ethics - Greek Poets & Presocratics

How does morality fit into the larger picture of reality? What is the relationship between fact and value? In this video we explore the history of the relationship between fact and value in Western philosophy. How did Western civilization’s most influential thinkers conceptualize how morality fit into the cosmos at large? Let's traverse this terrain together.

In this episode, we journey through the Greek poets (Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, & Sophocles), Presocratic philosophers (Xenophanes, Anaximander, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Democritus, & Protagoras), and the Sophists in search of an answer to these big questions.