Knowledge
A group of talks and discussions by philosophers
A discussion between:
P. F. Strawson
Fellow of University College, Oxford
D. F. Pears
Student of Christ Church, Oxford
Mary Warnock
Fellow of St. Hugh's College. Oxford Is knowledge a kind of system built up on a few certainties? An inverted Pyramid standing on its apex? Is it general agreement or that which justifies the general agreement? What constitutes ' an authority'? Why should anyone accept any verification as final?
Dorothy Dorow (soprano)
Rosemary Phillips (contralto)
Virtuoso Ensemble: Edward Walker (flute) Leon Goossens (oboe)
Stephen Waters (clarinet) Ronald Waller (bassoon)
John Burden (horn)
David Mason (trumpet) Patrick Hailing (violin) Gwynne Edwards (viola)
Willem de Mont (cello)
James W. Merrett (double-bass)
Renata Scheffel-Stein (harp)
Wilfrid Parry (piano)
Conducted by Walter Goehr
Menander's 'Misanthrope' ('Dyscolos')
[Starring] Laidman Browne with Nigel Stock and John Humphry
The only complete comedy by Menander in existence (discovery first reported in 1957)
Scene: a rustic shrine to Pan and the Nymphs near a spring, at Phyle in Attica
"The Dyscolos' ('Misanthrope') was first performed in Athens at the Lenaea Drama Festival of the year 317 B.C., when it won the prize. Menander was twenty-five years old.
