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    THE GREAT COURSES” Professor Dane N. Robinson is a member ofthe Phil phy & Intellectual History Division of History of Psychology ofthe Guidebook Contents Part tof Lecture 1: "Depth Psychology” From the Dance tothe Drama Lectute 2: The Aesthetis of Harmony Lecture 3: The vention of Scholarship Lecture 4: Sclence and the Nature of Things Lecture 5: The Hippocrates lecture 6: The Rule of tw Lecture 7: Statecraft Lecture 8: Ancient Greek Religion Lecture 9: Character and Personality Uectite 10: The Moral Poi Vew Greek Legacy: Lecture 11: The City and the Civ Life Lecture 12: Pertectioniam an the Greek al Classical Origins of the Modern World Taught by: Professor Daniel N. Robinson, Georgetown University 4131 Lafayete Center Div, Suite 100 Let melt larueia © Copyih 1998 The Teaching Company Limite Panne, bai IE TEACHING COMPANY Daniel N. Robinson, Ph.D. Distinguished Research Profesor and Profesor of Pychology ‘Georgetown Univesity DanilN. Robinson has taught at Georgetown University since 1971. Although tis doctor was earned in neuropsychology (Cty Univesity of New York, 1965), his scholarly books and ales have established him san authority it the history of psychology. pilesophy of psychology, and peychology and aw He is distinguished research profesor and profesor of psychology at ‘Georstown, and snes 1991 be has lectured regularly for the su-ficalty of ‘iloophy at the Univesity of Oxford. Dr. Robinson's books include The Enlighened Machine: An Anabyical Inroduction to Neuropsychology (Columbia, 1980), Peyehology and Law (Oxford, 1980), Phlooply’ of Pochology (Columbia, 1985), Arstoe's Paychology (1989), A Intellecral History of Psychology (hed e@, Wisconsin, 1995) and Wid Beat fale Humours: Dhe Insanity Defence fom Antu 10 ‘the Present (Harvard, 1996), Dr, Robinson has served as principal consultant 10 ‘he Public Broadcasting Sytem forthe avard-wining sees The Bran and the ‘subsequent inept serie, The Mind. He spat president of two divisions of the American Psychological Associaton: the division of the history of ychology andthe division of theoreti and pilosophicl psychology. He fellow of the American Prychologcal Associaton and” of the British Psyehologeal Society. Dr. Robinson i also visting Senor member of Linacre College, Oxford. Soli Tid eos iin Mie Pataca : ‘TABLE OF CONTENTS Profesor Biography. Course Scope. Lecture One: “Depth Peychology” From the Dance othe Drama... Lecture Two: The Aestheis of Harmony . Lesture Three: The Invention of Scholarship Selene andthe Natore of Things... “The Hippocrates nn Lecture Si The Rue of Law. Lecture Fi Lecture Seven: Statecraft. Lecture Right: Ancient Greek Religion Lecture Nine: Character and Perso “The Moral Point of View. Lecture Eleven: The City andthe Civie Life. Lecture Te Lecture Twelve: Perfectonism and the Greek Idea. 2 (2198 The Teeing Company Line Parnrhip Greek Legacy: ‘Classical Origins of the Modern World. Scope: ‘As Mathew Arsold observed entry ago when considering our Darwinian sncestor—that “hry quadrped with pointed eas anda tail,.”—there seems to ‘ve Bee something in hin "hat inlined im to Grek: “his course of twelve lectures introduces the student othe continuing intuence ofthe lasical Greck achievement on contemporary life. The point of the Tectures, thn, i notte ofen tedious cai tht here nothing new under the sa. Rabe, isto underscore the remarkable cont of perspective and ‘thos preserved over several millennia. The Best explanation ofthis cotity tray be ess in tems ofthe survival of what has proven o be sel tha nes of the very grounding of eur humanity. 1990 Tis Teaching Company Limted Porteerstip. Lecture One “Depth Psychology” From the Dance to the Drama Scope: ‘The grea literary themes tat have dominated erative wring over the past two millenia were developed and bequeathed tous by a han of tient Grek poet and dramatins, ‘There scarcely scorer af the human dilemma” no Ts uncovered an then laminated inthe works cof Greek antiquity. To achieve this abiding flues, the Ktrary ‘mins ofthat tire mist have understood whats viwaly univers in ‘he human experience i.e what ranscends time and place and lends icelfto ea transation sero cultures I longing 1 know ‘hereves athe world Homer and his sucesors marked ou the ‘contours and dimensions of the human condition and they ered a Ttratire that asa once diagnostic and therapeutic, invdoated and trane-culira Outline Introduction, ‘A. Our goal in this eis of etre sto pick up the echo ofa civilization that, while anion stil very much with us- Our very word "echo" derives frm the ancient Greck myth of Echo and Pan, recounted by the Roman poet Ovi. B. Wetend io secord the ancient Gres a central place nthe “Wester canon.” Have we abandoned the Greck legacy andi, how can we best rocover i 1. Themos resent atundonment ofthe Greek leary began during the nineteenth century, when the natural sienes began to supplant clasica stutis a ete colleges and universes. Thomas Huxley tnd Mathew Arold argued aout te importance of the clsical legacy. Munley denigrated the importance of classical studs ‘posed to natural scence, while Amoldasetd tht something intrinsic o human beings “ncines ws to Greek.” 2 The Grek legacy is not entirely positive Its negative impact can te sen inthe ntl ejestion ofthe experimental fos of mata seienes at elite choos, det the perception tht manual effort nd pragmatic concers were someiow degrading nied Pesnerip 1. Perhaps the most important lacy ofthe Greeks is their foundational injunction to "know thyell™ |A. Although pce-Greek civilizations develope reverential poty and ‘monumental architecture, they engage in no careful or univesalisic ‘amination of the human condition. 'B. "The Greeks eviginted a deeply introspective and humanistic perspective on human ie an the “human dilemma," but they dd Within a pre-existing cultural context Prelitert cvilizations ans their cultral values though what Thomas Reid inthe ineteenth century called “natural language”: pining, dane, musi and ter {om of ela transmission. The Greets built on his pre-existing cue, 1. Theepic tration was already ol in Homer's time (a. 750 BC), although Homer enjoy pride of place inthis gene 2. The Grock invention o rie pot afforded richer possible for exploring the motivations of individual characters, whether or not they are avare ofthese mativaton. Medes, fr stance, s moved ty forces of which shel at bet only partly aware 1. Grek literature generated a philosophy of perfectionism. 1s constant «heme i th impulse o Set hings aright, o restore balance and roption, to retum (aro) one's aural and proper sate, ‘The Greck influence on he subsequent development of Wester civilization es continuous or unbroken, For long periods, our debt ote Greeks ‘as unacknowledged or ven unknown, though i was periodically redlacovered |A. Alexander the Great's project of Hellenization spread clsial clue {othe most distant outposts ofthe then-known world, Archaologee have uncovered the remains of prvately-bul theters in ancient Gree setlement in Afghanistan Books are the prefered means by which a developed society transmits is ear o fate generations 1. Books in the fom of papyrus roll—becare common in clasicat ‘Greece and were consulted by Aristotle daring th fourth century Be 2.By the ist century AD, bound codices had begun 0 replace pyr ral as the favored means of transiting information. By ‘he third entry, some 75 percent of avalible information had been commited to these eae, and whatever was not ncided as probably ost. ‘3. The great bray at Alexadva had perhaps 50,000 700,000 items a the tine ofthe great fire of 47 BC. We know the ies of iii ate chiates 5 many ofthe works fost in tht fre thanks othe cataloguing effets ofthe mint cemury patach Photius. C.The West lost contact with the lasscal tration during the ary Cristian and ater medieval periods. We might never have restored That conte if ot fo the fot of Cec priests who reseed the “canon” in heir epyouses in western Ireland 1, With he fll of Constantinople in 1483, ver of elsial works wed ‘bck ito the West greatly enhancing the trary and pllosopbicl ‘schieverents ofthe Malan and then Norther Renaissance |A. The Remissnce marked the rediscovery of Greek “humanism: 1. The Renalssanes “humanists studied what were regarded as incliminaly human sues associated wit ndviual and soca Tit, with tragedy and comedy’ and ft, withthe larger questions of Ties meaning. 2 Dante's dt o Virgil was debt o Homer once removed ad ia omer canbe fund the wellsring of irae of sseoveny 3. Imhis Oration on the Digi of Man, Giovani Pico dela ‘Mirandla emphasizes the boundless of human potty [BL The ation ofthe heroic sragle—o ask tobe performed ora

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