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🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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0:00.0 | Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness |
0:10.1 | Podcast when we think of Western philosophers who pondered questions about the good life, |
0:14.6 | we typically think of the classical air of Greece and the likes of Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle. |
0:19.9 | But my guess would say that the poets and philosophers who came out of the preceding period, |
0:24.4 | Greece's Iron Age, also has something to say about the nature of existence. |
0:28.8 | Adam Nicholson is the author of How to Be, life lessons from the early Greeks. |
0:33.0 | To end the show, Adam takes us on a tour of Iron Age Greece |
0:36.0 | and how these seafaring people set the stage for our modern sense of self. |
0:40.0 | Adam makes the case that the early Greeks had what he calls a harbor mindset, which |
0:44.4 | Linthum and mentality centered on fluidity and transients. We discuss how Odysseus |
0:49.1 | exemplifies this harbor mindset and how a group of lesser-known pre-circratic philosophers define life through a lens of change and contradiction. |
0:57.0 | Adam then explains how a mystical guru named Pythagoras paved the way for Greek thinkers like Plato and Aristotle and the rise of cooperatives civility. |
1:05.0 | After the shows over check at our Shunuts at AWIM.IS slash How to B. All right, Adam Nicholson, welcome back to the show. |
1:13.0 | Thanks for having me, a pleasure. All right, Adam Nicholson, welcome back to the show. |
1:23.0 | Thanks for having me, a pleasure. |
1:25.0 | So we had you on last year to talk about your book, |
1:27.0 | Why Homer Matters, where we explore Homer, |
1:31.0 | you know, the great epic poet in his works, Iliad in the Odyssey and what we can learn from |
1:36.5 | him. |
1:37.5 | You got a new book out called How to Be Life Lessons from the Early Greeks, And in this book you explore the intellectual development of the Iron Age Greeks |
1:47.9 | and then how their geography influenced their philosophical outlook on life. |
1:53.3 | And I think when we typically think of the ancient Greeks, |
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