Greek Philosophy with Massimo Pigliucci
from Conversations in World History Hosted by davidsherrin
Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He has written many books, including How to Be A Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (Basic Books) as well as Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (University of Chicago Press). Here, I speak with him about the ancient Greeks and their teachings on character, virtue, politics and other ideas that can be found in his recent book The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders. You can check out his work on his website https://massimopigliucci.org/ or the substack Figs in Winter. See here for a teaching worksheet for this episode at my website https://www.davidsherrin.com/cwh Additional books he recommends are: The Character Gap by Christian Miller The Art of Living by John Sellars
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