Christopher Gill and Laurence Thomas talk about ways in which conceptions of personality and character today compare with such conceptions in antiquity, how modern notions of psychological or moral wholeness differ from the ancient Greeks’ concept of happiness, and how Darwinian and Freudian theories of psychology affect current understanding of personality and moral character.
At the time of this interview, Gill, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1981-82), was professor of classics at the University College of Wales. Thomas, a Fellow at the Center (1982-83), was professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
